Christine Choy Movies

  • 1991
    Homes Apart: Korea

    Homes Apart: Korea

    Homes Apart: Korea

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    They speak the same language, share a similar culture and once belonged to a single nation. When the Korean War ended in 1953, ten million families...

    Homes Apart: Korea
  • 1976
    From Spikes to Spindles

    From Spikes to Spindles

    From Spikes to Spindles

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    This raw, gutsy portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community. We see a Chinatown rarely...

    From Spikes to Spindles
  • 2023
    The Balloonist

    The Balloonist

    The Balloonist

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    Meet Brian Boland—the beloved, eccentric hot air balloonist and artist from the rural Upper Valley of Vermont.

    The Balloonist
  • 1994
    Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence

    Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence

    Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence

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    "Out in Silence" is one of a few films dealing with the HIV and Aids epidemic in the early 90's among the Asian American community. Filmed in New...

    Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence
  • 2008
    Long Story Short

    Long Story Short

    Long Story Short

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    Tells the story of Larry and Trudie Long, a popular Asian American nightclub act of the '40s and '50s, told through the eyes of their daughter,...

    Long Story Short
  • 2022
    The Exiles

    The Exiles

    The Exiles

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    Brash and opinionated, Christine Choy is a documentarian, cinematographer, professor, and quintessential New Yorker whose films and teaching have...

    The Exiles
  • 1987
    Who Killed Vincent Chin?

    Who Killed Vincent Chin?

    Who Killed Vincent Chin?

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    This film recounts the murder of Vincent Chin, an automotive engineer mistaken as Japanese who was slain by an assembly line worker who blamed him...

    Who Killed Vincent Chin?
  • 1995
    A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

    A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

    A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

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    The career of iconic and influential poet and writer Audre Lorde is seen up until death.

    A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
  • 1970
    Rodney King: Koreatown Reacts

    Rodney King: Koreatown Reacts

    Rodney King: Koreatown Reacts

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    Looking back over 20 years later at the Los Angeles riots in Koreatown as a result of the Rodney King verdict.

    Rodney King: Koreatown Reacts
  • 2016
    ReOrienting Africa: The Chinese in Ghana

    ReOrienting Africa: The Chinese in Ghana

    ReOrienting Africa: The Chinese in Ghana

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    A personal journey by Oscar nominee Christine Choy discovering the impact of Chinese Development in Africa.

    ReOrienting Africa: The Chinese in Ghana
  • 2006
    Agent Yellow

    Agent Yellow

    Agent Yellow

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    Agent Yellow is a powerful indictment of the U.S. government’s systematic prejudice against Chinese-American scientists. The film focuses on...

    Agent Yellow
  • 2016
    Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy

    Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy

    Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy

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    Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Christine Choy undergoes a wild adventure when she illegally—and accidentally—smuggles cigarettes...

    Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy
  • 1990
    The Best Hotel on Skid Row

    The Best Hotel on Skid Row

    The Best Hotel on Skid Row

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    America Undercover goes to the Madison Hotel in the skid-row section of downtown Los Angeles and talks to some of the desperate people living there....

    The Best Hotel on Skid Row
  • 1998
    Electric Shadow

    Electric Shadow

    Electric Shadow

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    Peppered with clips from their seminal movies, Christine Choy draws fascinating insights from a who’s who of Asian directors making films in...

    Electric Shadow
  • 2020
    Our Lady of Loreto

    Our Lady of Loreto

    Our Lady of Loreto

    02020HD

    An experimental documentary portrait of director Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter's grandfather

    Our Lady of Loreto
  • 1998
    In The Name of the Emperor

    In The Name of the Emperor

    In The Name of the Emperor

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    A matter-of-fact documentary of the massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the so-called 'Rape of Nanjing' in 1937. In the...

    In The Name of the Emperor
  • 1982
    Bittersweet Survival

    Bittersweet Survival

    Bittersweet Survival

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    This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins...

    Bittersweet Survival
  • 1993
    Sa-I-Gu

    Sa-I-Gu

    Sa-I-Gu

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    Sa-I-Gu, literally translated in Korean as April 29, is the day of the 1992 Los Angeles riots or uprising. Three months after the events, the...

    Sa-I-Gu
  • 1972
    Teach Our Children

    Teach Our Children

    Teach Our Children

    01972HD

    Documentary about the 1971 rebellion at Attica State Prison.

    Teach Our Children
  • 1984
    Mississippi Triangle

    Mississippi Triangle

    Mississippi Triangle

    01984HD

    This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and Whites live in a complex world of cotton, work,...

    Mississippi Triangle