Hope Invites Community for “Chinatown Rising” Film Screening on National Day of Racial Healing
“Chinatown Rising” will be featured on Tuesday, January 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre, in downtown Holland. The documentary film highlights a San Francisco neighborhood in transition as Chinatown activists of the 1960s reflect on their years as young residents waging battles for bilingual education, tenants’ rights and ethnic studies curriculum that would shape their community and nation. The screening is being hosted on the National Day of Racial Healing, which falls annually on the Tuesday following Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Doors to the free film screening open at 6:15 p.m. Following the screening, the audience is invited to participate in a Q&A discussion with the film Co-Director and Producer Josh Chuck.
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. Harry Chuck's exquisite unreleased footage captured a divided community's struggles for self-determination. “Chinatown Rising” is a documentary film co-directed by father and son team Harry and Josh Chuck, 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. A preview is available at: https://www.chinatownrising.com/trailer.
About Chinatown Rising’s Co-Director & Producer
Josh is a fourth-generation resident of San Francisco's Chinatown, where his family has deep roots as doctors, merchants, teachers and pastors. With over 25 years of experience as a youth worker, filmmaker and fundraiser, he is deeply committed to his community. He co-directed his first feature documentary, “Chinatown Rising,” alongside his father, Rev. Harry Chuck, and presented the film in various forms to over 300 audiences. Josh takes great pride in the rich history of activism in his community and is passionate about sharing these vital stories in a personal and engaging way.
Along with an NDORH Circle, the event is sponsored by the Hope College’s Office of Culture and Inclusive Excellence; Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Center; Center for Diversity and Inclusion; and the Asian Student Union.
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