Discussant: Josh Chuck (Director)

Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1960s, a young resident of San Francisco’s Chinatown named Harry Chuck, 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), his exquisite unreleased footage captured a divided community's struggles for self-determination. Chinatown Rising is a documentary film brought to the public light by Josh Chuck with the help of his father, Harry. It presents 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 through the 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. 85 minutes.

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