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Film: Chinatown Rising Screening and Filmmaker Discussion

Wednesday, 11/9/2022
4:00 - 6:30
Chinatown Meeting Room
Chinatown/Him Mark Lai

1135 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
United States

415-355-2888

A special screening of Chinatown Rising, followed by a discussion with Joshua Chuck, producer and director. 

Chinatown Rising is a documentary film about the Asian-American Movement from the perspective of the young residents on the front lines of their historic neighborhood in transition. 

Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1960s, a young San Francisco Chinatown resident, armed with a 16mm camera and leftover film scraps from a local TV station, turned his lens onto his community. Totaling more than 20,000 feet of film (10 hours), Harry Chuck's exquisite unreleased footage has captured a divided community's struggles for self-determination. Through publicly challenging the conservative views of their elders, their demonstrations and protests of the 1960s–1980s rattled the once quiet streets during the community’s shift in power. Forty-five years later, in intimate interviews, these activists recall their roles and experiences in response to the need for social change.

NR, 85 mins., 2021.

Directed by: Harry Chuck and Joshua Chuck 

Produced by: James Q. Chan, Harry Chuck, Joshua Chuck 

Directors of Photography: Harry Chuck, Anson Ho 

Editor: Greg Louie 

Music: Miles Ito 

Consultants: Christopher Chow, Evan Jackson Leong, Walter Louie, Dr. Judy Yung 

CHINATOWN RISING is co-production with Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting presented in association with Chuckwow Productions, Good Medicine Picture Company and California Humanities.

Connect:

Chinatown Rising - Website | Chinatown Rising - Twitter | Chinatown Rising - Instagram

Film & Video

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Chinese American Interest

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This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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