1987, Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Pena, USA, 87 min.

Closing night film! Filmmaker in person (tentative).

Charting a turning point in Asian American activism, this powerful documentary continues to raise questions more than thirty years after it was nominated for an Oscar. In 1982 Detroit, Chinese American auto worker Vincent Chin was beaten to death by two unemployed men who got off with probation and a small fine. The filmmakers bring the whole picture into focus with a remarkable grasp of all the complex aspects of race, unemployment, and economic decline that the case spotlighted. In English and Mandarin with English subtitles. (BS)