Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
IU Global Film Festival, Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series
An evening with acclaimed director Christine Choy, one of the first major Chinese American woman filmmakers.
Oscar nominee Christine Choy has produced and directed over 70 works, in various forms, all of which are imbued with her electrifying energy and activist spirit. Most well-known for her Academy-nominated film Who Killed Vincent Chin?, her work has received numerous awards and Choy has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim, the Rockefeller, and the Asian Cultural Council. Using her camera to shed light on hidden social histories and injustices, she has developed a reputation for fearless filmmaking and uncompromising vision in her push to change audiences' understanding of the world.
This program will be in the form of a conversation between Choy via Zoom and Ellen Wu, Associate Director of the College Arts and Humanities Institute.
Ellen Wu researches, teaches, and writes about race, immigration, and American history. She is a proud alum of Indiana University Bloomington’s College of Arts and Sciences, where she double-majored in Biology and History. Prof. Wu earned an MA in Asian American Studies at UCLA and a PhD in History at the University of Chicago. She is now Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of the College Arts and Humanities Institute at IUB. Prof. Wu is the author of The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (2014), and her research has been featured in a variety of public-facing platforms, including the Washington Post, Slate, NPR, Goop, the comedy show Adam Ruins Everything, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and the PBS documentary series Asian Americans. Prof. Wu is a longtime fangirl of all things cinema-related who counts Who Killed Vincent Chin?, directed by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña, among her most life-changing films ever.
