Chinatown Rising

Chinatown Rising (2019)

DocumentaryHistory

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.

Directors: Harry Chuck, Josh Chuck.

Casts

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

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