Movies

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

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

Based on the play, "Pigeons," by Ginny Lim, this film focuses on the meeting between an older immigrant and younger American-born woman living in...

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

When a young filmmaker turns the camera on documentarian, Christine Choy, her eccentric behavior and unconventional wisdom challenge him to question...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

Documentary by Christine Choy

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

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

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

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....

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

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,...

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

This film explores the social, psychological and cultural factors that contribute to violence against women regardless of ethnicity or economic...