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who killed vincent chin?
1987 | 16mm film | color | 87 min
Christine Choy, Renee Tajima-Pena
Renee Tajima-Peña, Christine Choy, Nancy Tong, Film News Now Foundation
Holly Fisher
Kyle Kibbe
Lucia Hwong
synopsis
On a hot summer night in Detroit, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed a young Chinese-American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder in the streets of Detroit, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system.
awards/events
DuPont-Columbia – Silver Baton (1991)
Hawaii International Film Festival – Best Documentary Award (1988)
Academy Awards – Best Documentary Feature Nominee (1989)
Asian imigrants, car industry, circular structure, Detroit, essay form, interracial, lap dance, mixed media, new form, political documentary, race war, strip club
