Revisiting ‘Who Killed Vincent Chin?’, Asian American Civil Rights Nearly 40 Years Later | Clip

Описание к видео Revisiting ‘Who Killed Vincent Chin?’, Asian American Civil Rights Nearly 40 Years Later | Clip

June 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of Vincent Chin’s murder, a hate crime that sparked the modern Asian American civil rights movement still seen today, and Detroit was its epicenter. It was June 19, 1982, when Chinese American Detroiter Vincent Chin was brutally beaten to death with a baseball bat outside of a nightclub in Highland Park. His killers served no jail time.

At that time, New York filmmakers Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña set out to tell the story of Vincent Chin’s murder and what unfolded after with Detroit Public TV’s Juanita Anderson, but making a documentary of that scope at a local PBS station was a gargantuan challenge. In 1988, the film was nominated for an Academy Award and, in 2021 it was inducted into the National Library of Congress’ Film Registry.

Nearly four decades after the documentary "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" premiered, the filmmakers Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña, alongside Detroit Public TV's Juanita Anderson, join Detroit-area filmmaker Chien-An Yuan to talk about the making of the documentary, the civil rights movement they covered in real-time, and the significance the film still holds nearly today.

Episode 635/Segment 1

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