Chinatown Rising
Overview
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.
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09/05/2019
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Harry Chuck
Narrator
Josh Chuck
Interviewer
Christopher Chow
Self
Ed Sue
Self
Emil DeGuzman
Self
Fred Lau
Self
George Woo
Self
Gordon Chin
Self
Laureen Chew
Self
Linda Wang
Self
Ling-Chi Wang
Self
Lucinda Lee Katz
Self
Mason Wong
Self
Mel Lee
Self
Norman Fong
Self
Pam Tau Lee
Self
Phil Choy
Self
Robert Yuen
Self
Warren Mar
Self
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archival footage)
Barry Fong-Torres
Self (archival footage)
Dianne Feinstein
Self (archival footage)
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