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Who Killed Vincent Chin? is a 1987 American documentary film produced and directed by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña that recounts the murder of Vincent Chin. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was later broadcast as part of the PBS series POV.
Instead the filmmakers, Christine Choy and Renee Tajima, chart the sudden collision of two American dreams outside a topless bar one hot Detroit night in 1982, and describe the labyrinthine course that justice, susceptible to competing pressures, pursues over the next four years.
Dec 1, 2022 · The Academy Award-nominated 1987 film, directed by Tajima-Peña, professor of Asian American studies at UCLA, and Christine Choy, a professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, will be screened Dec. 4 at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, followed by a Q&A with the directors.
Oct 27, 2021 · Christine Choy, Renee Tajima-Peña, Juanita Anderson, Nancy Yao, Holly Fisher, and Nancy Tong discuss Who Killed Vincent Chin? at the 59th New York Film Festi...
Overview. New York, N.Y. — May 5, 2022 — POV, now in its 35th year as America’s longest-running independent documentary series, presents a Special Encore Presentation of the gripping 1988 Academy...
Jun 9, 2022 · 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.
Mar 20, 2021 · After Chin’s murder, Asian American filmmakers Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña set out to document his story and its aftermath — particularly how it marked a turning point for Asian American civil rights and galvanized Asian Americans to work collectively to seek justice.
