Let’s celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Month!

What would you do to change your community? Join us in the free screening of the documentary film Chinatown Rising and engage in a discussion with Co-Director and Producer Josh Chuck.  Pizza and snacks will be served.

About the film

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.

For more information about the film, visit the Chinatown Rising website.

Location: LRC 116