Christine Choy Movies

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

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...

Academy Award-nominated director Christine Choy brings together interviews with actors and directors, archival footage of classic Korean films and...

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...

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,...

The film investigates the death of Japanese exchange student Yoshi Hattori, killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 17, 1992.

Documentary by Christine Choy

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...

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....

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...

This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons using firsthand accounts of inmates at the North Carolina...

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

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

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,...

Documentary about the 1971 rebellion at Attica State Prison.

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

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

This colorful production contrasts the rich heritage of Chinese opera with the day-to-day realities of its emigréperformers in New York's...

A revolutionary political moment is captured firsthand by two independent women filmmakers shooting inside refugee settlements in Zambia and Angola...

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