Film

Chinatown Rising

2019 · 1h 52m · Documentary

IMDb

8.4

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. 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. 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.

• Josh ChuckDirector
• Harry ChuckDirector
• James ChanProducer
• Greg LouieEditor

Release date

May 9, 2019

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 52m

Genres

Documentary