Christine Choy
Chinese-American filmmaker ( 1952-2025)
Christine Choy (born Chai Ming Huei; September 17, 1949 – December 7, 2025) was a Chinese American filmmaker. She was known for co-directing Who Killed Vincent Chin?, a 1988 documentary film based on the killing of Vincent Chin, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She co-founded Third World Newsreel, a film company focusing on people of color and social justice issues, as well as Asian CineVision, a development and exhibition space for Asian/Asian American filmmakers. As a documentary filmmaker, she produced and directed more than eighty films. She was a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She was the first Asian American feature-length documentary filmmaker with her first film preceding both “the godmother of Asian American cinema” Loni Ding’s first film by ten years and “godfather” Robert A Nakamura’s 1975 film Wataridori: Birds of Passage.
Early life
Life in Asia
Choy was born in Shanghai in the People's Republic of China as Chai Ming Huei to a Korean father and a Chinese mother. Shortly after Choy's birth, her father abandoned the family to return to South Korea. As a result, Choy was raised largely by her mother. Growing up, her family struggled greatly financially.
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