Film Screening: Chinatown Rising

Join the Coalition for A Better Chinese American Community and the Illinois Institute of Technology Office of Community Affairs on Friday, October 7, at 6 p.m/ for a screening of Chinatown Rising in the Schulz Auditorium in Michael Paul Galvin Tower on the campus of Illinois Tech.

The film is set 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.

Producer and co-producer Josh Chuck will answer questions from the audience after the screening. 

Parking is free and across the street in Lot D4.

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