Chinatown Rising

CHINATOWN RISING Presented by the Multicultural Committee, Sponsored by the Auxiliary Service Corporation (ASC)

Expired November 23, 2021 4:00 PM
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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.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    85 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Harry Chuck, Josh Chuck
  • Producer
    James Q. Chan
  • Co-Producer
    Harry Chuck, Josh Chuck
  • Cinematographer
    Anson Ho
  • Editor
    Greg Louie
  • Composer
    Miles Ito
  • Sound Design
    Jeremiah Moore