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    • 2024 SHOWCASE
    • JONATHAN LAXAMANA EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD
    • DIDI
    • AAPI VOICES AT KARTEMQUIN
    • NOBUKO MIYAMOTO: A SONG IN MOVEMENT
    • ASHIMA
    • THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS
    • SMOKING TIGERS
    • SHORTS - BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
    • SHORTS - FAMILY IS EVERYTHING
    • SHORTS - IN FULL SPECTRUM
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FREE CHOL SOO LEE

OPENING NIGHT FILM!
Friday, April 1st, 2022 - 8:00 PM

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2022
Documentary
Directed by: Julie Ha, Euguene Yi
USA
83 mins
In English and Korean with English Subtitles
Format: Digital

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“Directors Julie Ha and Eugene Yi craft a powerful indictment of systemic racism and the criminal justice system, while providing Lee a chance to have agency and tell his story through his own words.”
— Josh Flanders, Chicago Reader

After a Korean immigrant is wrongly convicted of a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gang murder, Asian Americans unite as never before to free Chol Soo Lee. A former street hustler becomes the symbol for a landmark movement. But once out, he self-destructs, threatening the movement’s legacy and the man himself. Chicago premiere.