Christine Choy
September 17, 1949 · 76 years old
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.
Known For
4 titles
The Exiles
Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre, in order to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989.
From Spikes to Spindles
This portrait of New York's Chinatown captures the early days of an emerging consciousness in the community.
Mississippi Triangle
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 ha...
Homes Apart: Korea
A thorough examination of the devastating human cost of the Korean War, which suddenly and forcibly divided the nation in two in 1953, separating millions of families, with no end in sight even as the Cold War ended decades later.