Who killed Vincent Chin? / a film by Christine Choy & Renee Tajima ; producer, Renee Tajima ; director, Christine Choy ; a production of Film News Now Foundation & WTVS/Detroit.
Tajima-Pena, Renee, film producer, interviewer (expression); Choy, Christine, film director, director of photography.; Doob, Nick, director of photography.; Kibbe, Kyle, director of photography.; Santana, Alfred J., director of photography.; Fisher, Holly, 1942- editor of moving image work.; Ebens, Ronald, interviewee (expression, on-screen participant.; Nitz, Michael, interviewee (expression), on-screen participant.; Chin, Lily F., interviewee (expression), on-screen participant.; Film News Now Foundation, production company.; WTVS-TV (Television station : Detroit, Mich.), production company.
1988
HV7419
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Title
Who killed Vincent Chin? / a film by Christine Choy & Renee Tajima ; producer, Renee Tajima ; director, Christine Choy ; a production of Film News Now Foundation & WTVS/Detroit.
Uniform Title
POV (Television program)
Published
New York, NY : Filmakers Library, [1988]
Language
English
Language Note
In English; closed-captioned in English.
Description
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 82 min.)) : sound, color
Call Number
HV7419
System Control No.
(OCoLC)747799173
Summary
This Academy-Award nominated film is a powerful statement about racism in working-class America. It relates the stark facts of Vincent Chin's brutal murder. A 27-year-old Chinese-American, Chin was celebrating his last days of bachelorhood in a Detroit bar. An argument broke out between him and Ron Ebens, a Chrysler Motors foreman. Ebens shouted ethnic insults, the fight moved outside, and before onlookers, Ebens bludgeoned Chin to death with a baseball bat. In the ensuing trial, Ebens was let off with a suspended sentence and a small fine. Outrage filled the Asian-American community to the point where they organized an unprecedented civil rights protest. His bereaved mother, brought up to be self-effacing, successfully led a nationwide crusade for a retrial. This tragic story is interwoven with the whole fabric of timely social concerns. It addresses issues such as the failure of our judicial system to value every citizen's rights equally, the collapse of the automobile industry under pressure from Japanese imports, and the souring of the American dream for the blue collar worker. Widely acclaimed by the press, Who Killed Vincent Chin? is a memorable film for all audiences.
Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987; broadcast as an episode of the second season of the PBS series, POV on July 16, 1989.
Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
Interviewees, Ronald Ebens, Michael Nitz, Lily F. Chin.
Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
Interviewees, Ronald Ebens, Michael Nitz, Lily F. Chin.
Credits
Interviews, Renee Tajima ; principal cinematography, Christine Choy, Nick Doob, Kyle Kibbe, Al Santana ; editor, Holly Fisher.
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Awards
Hawaii International Film Festival, Best Documentary, 1988
International Documentary Association, IDA Award, 1988
National Film Preservation Board, National Film Registry, 2021
Peabody Awards, Peabody Award, 1990
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, Silver Baton, 1991
Academy Awards, Best Documentary, Features, Nominated, 1989
Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize, Nominated, 1989
International Documentary Association, IDA Award, 1988
National Film Preservation Board, National Film Registry, 2021
Peabody Awards, Peabody Award, 1990
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, Silver Baton, 1991
Academy Awards, Best Documentary, Features, Nominated, 1989
Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize, Nominated, 1989
Source of Description
Online resource; title from title screen (Alexander Street, viewed May 10, 2022).
Added Author
Tajima-Pena, Renee, film producer, interviewer (expression)
Choy, Christine, film director, director of photography.
Doob, Nick, director of photography.
Kibbe, Kyle, director of photography.
Santana, Alfred J., director of photography.
Fisher, Holly, 1942- editor of moving image work.
Ebens, Ronald, interviewee (expression, on-screen participant.
Nitz, Michael, interviewee (expression), on-screen participant.
Chin, Lily F., interviewee (expression), on-screen participant.
Choy, Christine, film director, director of photography.
Doob, Nick, director of photography.
Kibbe, Kyle, director of photography.
Santana, Alfred J., director of photography.
Fisher, Holly, 1942- editor of moving image work.
Ebens, Ronald, interviewee (expression, on-screen participant.
Nitz, Michael, interviewee (expression), on-screen participant.
Chin, Lily F., interviewee (expression), on-screen participant.
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