Christine Choy

Christine Choy (born 1952) is a Chinese-born American documentary filmmaker. Choy was one of the first major Chinese American woman film makers. One of Choy's most acclaimed films, Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1988) is a multicultural film that was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Additional Camera:
1982  Bittersweet Survival

Camera Operator:
1982  Bittersweet Survival
1987  Who Killed Vincent Chin?

Cinematography:
1972  Teach Our Children
1982  Bittersweet Survival
1984  Mississippi Triangle
1987  Who Killed Vincent Chin?
1994  Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence

Co-Director:
1972  Teach Our Children
1982  Bittersweet Survival
1984  Mississippi Triangle
1987  Who Killed Vincent Chin?
1993  Sa-I-Gu
1994  Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence

Co-Producer:
1972  Teach Our Children
1982  Bittersweet Survival
1984  Mississippi Triangle
1987  Who Killed Vincent Chin?
1993  Sa-I-Gu
1994  Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence

Director:
1972  Teach Our Children
1976  From Spikes to Spindles
1978  Inside Women Inside
1980  To Love, Honor and Obey
1982  Bittersweet Survival
1984  Mississippi Triangle
1985  Namibia: Independence Now!
1987  Who Killed Vincent Chin?
1990  The Best Hotel on Skid Row
1991  Homes Apart: Korea
1991  Yellow Tale Blues: Two American Families
1992  Monkey King Looks West
1993  Sa-I-Gu
1994  Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence
1997  The Shot Heard 'Round the World
1998  Electric Shadow
1998  In The Name of the Emperor
2001  Ha Ha Shanghai
2003  Sparrow Village
2006  Agent Yellow
2008  Long Story Short
2009  Cinema Korea
2016  ReOrienting Africa: The Chinese in Ghana
????  Rodney King: Koreatown Reacts

Director of Photography:
1972  Teach Our Children
1976  From Spikes to Spindles
1978  Inside Women Inside
1980  To Love, Honor and Obey
1982  Bittersweet Survival
1984  Mississippi Triangle
1985  Namibia: Independence Now!
1987  Who Killed Vincent Chin?
1990  The Best Hotel on Skid Row
1991  Homes Apart: Korea
1991  Yellow Tale Blues: Two American Families
1992  Monkey King Looks West
1993  Sa-I-Gu
1994  Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence
1995  A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
1997  The Shot Heard 'Round the World
1998  Electric Shadow
1998  In The Name of the Emperor
2001  Ha Ha Shanghai
2003  Sparrow Village
2006  Agent Yellow
2008  Long Story Short
2009  Cinema Korea
2016  ReOrienting Africa: The Chinese in Ghana
????  Rodney King: Koreatown Reacts

Executive Producer:
1972  Teach Our Children
1976  From Spikes to Spindles
1978  Inside Women Inside
1980  To Love, Honor and Obey
1982  Bittersweet Survival
1984  Mississippi Triangle
1985  Namibia: Independence Now!
1987  Who Killed Vincent Chin?
1990  The Best Hotel on Skid Row
1991  Homes Apart: Korea
1991  Yellow Tale Blues: Two American Families
1992  Monkey King Looks West
1993  Sa-I-Gu
1994  Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence
1995  A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
1997  The Shot Heard 'Round the World
1998  Electric Shadow
1998  In The Name of the Emperor
2001  Ha Ha Shanghai
2003  Sparrow Village
2006  Agent Yellow
2008  Long Story Short
2009  Cinema Korea
2016  ReOrienting Africa: The Chinese in Ghana
2020  Our Lady of Loreto
????  Rodney King: Koreatown Reacts

Producer:
1972  Teach Our Children
1976  From Spikes to Spindles
1978  Inside Women Inside
1980  To Love, Honor and Obey
1982  Bittersweet Survival
1984  Mississippi Triangle
1985  Namibia: Independence Now!
1987  Who Killed Vincent Chin?
1990  The Best Hotel on Skid Row
1991  Homes Apart: Korea
1991  Yellow Tale Blues: Two American Families
1992  Monkey King Looks West
1993  Sa-I-Gu
1994  Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence
1995  A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
1997  The Shot Heard 'Round the World
1998  Electric Shadow
1998  In The Name of the Emperor
2001  Ha Ha Shanghai
2003  Sparrow Village
2006  Agent Yellow
2008  Long Story Short
2009  Cinema Korea
2016  ReOrienting Africa: The Chinese in Ghana
2020  Our Lady of Loreto
????  Rodney King: Koreatown Reacts

Thanks:
1972  Teach Our Children
1976  From Spikes to Spindles
1978  Inside Women Inside
1980  To Love, Honor and Obey
1982  Bittersweet Survival
1984  Mississippi Triangle
1985  Namibia: Independence Now!
1987  Who Killed Vincent Chin?
1990  The Best Hotel on Skid Row
1991  Homes Apart: Korea
1991  Yellow Tale Blues: Two American Families
1992  Monkey King Looks West
1993  Sa-I-Gu
1994  Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence
1995  A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
1997  The Shot Heard 'Round the World
1998  Electric Shadow
1998  In The Name of the Emperor
2001  Ha Ha Shanghai
2003  Sparrow Village
2006  Agent Yellow
2008  Long Story Short
2009  Cinema Korea
2016  ReOrienting Africa: The Chinese in Ghana
2020  Our Lady of Loreto
2023  The Balloonist
????  Rodney King: Koreatown Reacts

Writer:
1972  Teach Our Children
1976  From Spikes to Spindles
1978  Inside Women Inside
1980  To Love, Honor and Obey
1982  Bittersweet Survival
1984  Mississippi Triangle
1985  Namibia: Independence Now!
1987  Who Killed Vincent Chin?
1990  The Best Hotel on Skid Row
1991  Homes Apart: Korea
1991  Yellow Tale Blues: Two American Families
1992  Monkey King Looks West
1993  Sa-I-Gu
1994  Not A Simple Story; Out in Silence
1995  A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
1997  The Shot Heard 'Round the World
1998  Electric Shadow
1998  In The Name of the Emperor
2001  Ha Ha Shanghai
2003  Sparrow Village
2006  Agent Yellow
2008  Long Story Short
2009  Cinema Korea
2016  Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy
2016  ReOrienting Africa: The Chinese in Ghana
2020  Our Lady of Loreto
2023  The Balloonist
????  Rodney King: Koreatown Reacts

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.