Chinatown Rising

Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid1960s 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 20000 feet of film 10 hours Harry Chucks exquisite unreleased footage has captured a divided communitys struggles for selfdetermination Chinatown Rising is a documentary film about the AsianAmerican 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 1960s1980s rattled the once quiet streets during the communitys shift in power Fortyfive years later in intimate interviews these activists recall their roles and experiences in response to the need for social change