Filmmaker Scheduled to Appear
IU Global Film Festival, Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series
Revisiting her unfinished documentary about the exiled leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, filmmaker Christine Choy reckons with the legacy of that moment in China's history. Virtual Q&A with Choy to follow.
Winner, U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. In 1989, acclaimed documentarian Christine Choy began shooting a film about three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre and their resettlement and activism. The film was never finished, in The Exiles, co-directors Ben Klein and Violet Columbus free the historical footage from the archival vault and employ Choy herself as a lens into the past and present of the Tiananmen three and their lasting impact. [95 min; documentary; English]
A virtual Q&A with Christine Choy will follow the screening. This event is co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center.
"Illuminates the considerable cost of dissent, both then and now." — Wendy Ide, Screen International
"The Exiles shows how much its subjects gave up and how little they won. Americans who hope to still have a democracy 20, 10, or even two years from now should take note." — John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter
"Shanghai-born filmmaker Christine Choy is a character so incandescent that she's every bit as powerful in front of the camera as she is behind it—a fact that Violet Columbus and Ben Klein's The Exiles seizes upon from the moment it starts." — David Ehrlich, IndieWire
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