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CHRISTINE CHOY

September 9 – September 13

Third World Newsreel presents a major fall retrospective honoring Christine Choy, a foundational figure in Asian American documentary. Over five decades, Choy trained her camera on the people the official record overlooked: Chinatown’s garment workers and tenants, incarcerated women, Southeast Asian refugees, families split by the Korean DMZ, and communities across the Mississippi Delta.

Choy co-founded Third World Newsreel in 1972, Asian CineVision in 1975, and the Center for Asian American Media in 1980, taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and earned an Academy Award nomination for WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN? (1987), a Peabody Award, and induction into the Library of Congress National Film Registry. This multi-venue retrospective – which will take place at Anthology, DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema, and the Asian American International Film Festival (taking place at Asia Society) – is anchored by new digital preservations of nine of her pioneering films from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, an act of preservation as resistance that keeps her work, and the histories it holds, in public view at the moment the country tells its own 250th-anniversary story.

Here at Anthology we’ll be screening several of the newly preserved and digitized works, as well as the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation’s recent restoration of WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN?, and a handful of films from later in Choy’s career.

Co-presented with Third World Newsreel.

Special thanks to JT Takagi, Roselly Torres, and Shu Wang (Third World Newsreel); Malkah Manouel; and Sarah Brennan (Alexander Street).

For more details about the screenings taking place at Asia Society and DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema, visit:
https://aaiff.filmbot.com/2026/programs/breaking-boundaries-across-time-and-distance-a-christine-choy-tribute/ https://www.dctvny.org/s/firehousecinema

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