Please note: This was screened in June 2022
Join us for a special screening of this documentary about a 20-year-old Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee who was wrongfully convicted of murder. The screening will be followed by a recorded Q&A with the film’s directors Julie Ha and Eugene Yi.
In 1970s San Francisco, 20-year-old Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was racially profiled and wrongfully convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. After spending years in prison fighting to survive, investigative journalist K.W. Lee takes a special interest in his case, igniting an unprecedented social justice movement.
Chol Soo Lee was a penniless street drifter, who became the symbol for a landmark movement which saw a massive Asian-Amercian movement, of younger activists working together with older, conservative Korean immigrants to free him from the miscarriage of justice. Tragically once free, Chol self-destructed, threatening the movement's legacy and the man himself.
Directors Julie Ha and Eugene Yi craft a powerful indictment of systemic racism and the criminal justice system, while providing Lee a platform to tell his story through his own words.