Curtis Choy

On February 4, 1974, the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. A month later, SLA members and Hearst robbed a bank in San Francisco. After the telecast shootout with police in Los Angeles, two remaining SLA members and Hearst fled to rural Pennsylvania, where they met Wendy Yoshimura. Wendy was eluding authorities who had indicted her on weapons and explosives charges in 1972. After 3 years on the run, Wendy was captured with Hearst in a San Francisco apartment, where the FBI threatened to "blow Wendy's head off". She was kept in isolation for 40 days, then jailed for 3 months until the Wendy Yoshimura Fair Trial Committee came to her aid.

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This insightful documentary explores the life of Frank Chin, the godfather of modern Asian Americanism. Taking a look at his own story and the many controversies raging over him during the past thirty years, the film reveals the much larger implications of the literary, ideological and cultural changes taking place in Asian America.

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The Fall of the I-Hotel brings to life the battle for housing in San Francisco. The brutal eviction of the International Hotel's tenants culminated a decade of spirited resistance to the razing of Manilatown. The Fall of the I-Hotel works on several levels. It not only documents the struggle to save the I-Hotel, but also gives an overview of Filipino American history.

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A collection of film clips of what would become Curtis Choy’s seminal documentary The Fall of the I-Hotel. This work-in-progress documentary includes In-depth interviews with Manongs – an Illocano term of respect for elders – and community leaders as they fought to stop the mass eviction of Asian American elders from the International Hotel and the destruction of San Francisco’s Manilatown.

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WHO WE ARE forms the unifying theme of "Dupont Guy". It affirms the legitimacy of Chinese-American (nee Chonk) culture, exploring cross cultural currents of San Francisco's Chinatown: assimilation, self-contempt, schizophrenic language, duplicitous behavior.

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A documentary about the making of Wayne Wang's 1982 film CHAN IS MISSING, featuring interviews with the cast and crew.

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WHO WE ARE forms the unifying theme of "Dupont Guy". It affirms the legitimacy of Chinese-American (nee Chonk) culture, exploring cross cultural currents of San Francisco's Chinatown: assimilation, self-contempt, schizophrenic language, duplicitous behavior.

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