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Christine Choy

Christine Choy

Christine Choy (born 1952) is a Chinese-born American documentary filmmaker. Choy was one of the first major Chinese American woman film makers. One of Choy's most acclaimed films, Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1988) is a multicultural film that was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary.

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Movies Made By Christine Choy (27)

The Balloonist (2023)

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

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Our Lady of Loreto (2020)

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

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Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy (2016)

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

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ReOrienting Africa: The Chinese in Ghana (2016)

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

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Cinema Korea (2009)

Academy Award-nominated director Christine Choy brings together interviews with actors and directors, archival footage of classic Korean films and accounts of defining historical events to give a fully rounded view of Korean film culture. Interviewees incl ...

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Long Story Short (2008)

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, actress Jodi Long. ...

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Agent Yellow (2006)

Agent Yellow is a powerful indictment of the U.S. government's systematic prejudice against Chinese-American scientists. The film focuses on the mistreatment of Chinese scientists who contributed significantly to American military research, specifically de ...

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Sparrow Village (2003)

In a rural village of southwestern China a bevy of young girls yearn for an education. Their parents are poor and illiterate. It is difficult for them to scrape together the money to send their daughters to school in another village. The money for tuition, ...

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Ha Ha Shanghai (2001)

In 1992 the filmmaker Christine Choy returned to Shanghai for the first time in over thirty years: to track down the title of her family's house that her mother abandoned on leaving China for the U.S. in the early 1960's and to locate an old schoolmate. Th ...

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In The Name of the Emperor (1998)

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 name of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, the desperate soldiers, enraged by intense Chinese resistance, stormed ...

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Electric Shadow (1998)

Peppered with clips from their seminal movies, Christine Choy draws fascinating insights from a who's who of Asian directors making films in the 90s, including Wong Kar-Wai, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Tony Chan, Wayne Wang and John Woo. ...

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The Shot Heard 'Round the World (1997)

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

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A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1995)

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

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Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence (1994)

"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 York, Guam and Hawaii, portrait of two people and how they are dealing with issues of homophobia the lack of s ...

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Sa-I-Gu (1993)

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 documentary explores the experience of several Korean American women who were caught in the events. ...

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Monkey King Looks West (1992)

This colorful production contrasts the rich heritage of Chinese opera with the day-to-day realities of its emigréperformers in New York's Chinatown. It depicts the efforts of three classically-trained opera artists to keep alive their revered art form for ...

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Homes Apart: Korea (1991)

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 were torn apart. By the early 90s, as the rest of the world celebrated the end of the Cold War, Koreans rema ...

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The Best Hotel on Skid Row (1990)

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. It talks to a prostitute and heroin addict named Becky, a drug dealer and traveler names John, and an heavy ...

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Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987)

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 for the competition by the Japanese auto makers that were threatening his job. It then recounts how that murd ...

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Namibia: Independence Now! (1985)

A revolutionary political moment is captured firsthand by two independent women filmmakers shooting inside refugee settlements in Zambia and Angola in 1985. Depicting the significant role of women in this struggle for independence, this film explores the l ...

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Mississippi Triangle (1984)

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, and racial conflict. The history of the Chinese community is framed against the harsh realities of civil , r ...

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Bittersweet Survival: Southeast Asian Refugees in America (1982)

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 with a montage of riveting footage depicting the devastating effects of the war. It then unveils the mixed re ...

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To Love, Honor and Obey (1980)

This film explores the social, psychological and cultural factors that contribute to violence against women regardless of ethnicity or economic background. Survivors, safe house administrators, counselors, police officers, and male abusers in counseling ex ...

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Inside Women Inside (1978)

This film exposes the daily humiliation regularly faced by women in U.S. prisons using firsthand accounts of inmates at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women and the Correctional Institute for Women at Riker's Island, New York. ...

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From Spikes to Spindles (1976)

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 depicted, a vibrant community whose young and old join forces to protest police brutality and hostile real est ...

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Teach Our Children (1972)

DocumentaThis film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take drastic steps toward securing their basic rights. The film questions the reactions of prison warden Oswald, ...

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Movies Starring Christine Choy (3)

The Exiles (2022)

Brash and opinionated, Christine Choy is a documentarian, cinematographer, professor, and quintessential New Yorker whose films and teaching have influenced a generation of artists. In 1989 she started to film the leaders of the Tiananmen Square pro-democr ...

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Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy (2016)

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

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Agent Yellow (2006)

Agent Yellow is a powerful indictment of the U.S. government's systematic prejudice against Chinese-American scientists. The film focuses on the mistreatment of Chinese scientists who contributed significantly to American military research, specifically de ...

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