16 Facts About Christine Choy

Christine Choy was born on 1952 and is a Chinese-American filmmaker.

Christine Choy co-founded Third World Newsreel, a film company focusing on people of color and social justice issues.

Christine Choy is a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Christine Choy was a volunteer for WBAI in high school and described "[o]ne of her duties" as covering the Panther Twenty-One trial at the Tombs.

In 1965, Christine Choy was given a scholarship to attend Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart in New York, where she studied architecture.

At Newsreel, Christine Choy worked as an editor and animation director for some amount of time.

Soon thereafter, Christine Choy earned a Directing Certificate at the American Film Institute.

Christine Choy has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship, and an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship.

In 1972, Christine Choy co-founded Third World Newsreel together with fellow filmmaker Susan Robeson.

In 1974, Christine Choy directed her first feature-length documentary, Teach Our Children.

Christine Choy was one of the first major female Chinese-American filmmakers.

Christine Choy is considered a political filmmaker and an activist.

Christine Choy struggled in seeking funding for the film due to its high-tension subject matter, shedding light on working-class racism in Detroit at a time when the US auto industry was failing and Japanese cars were gaining popularity.

Sa-I-gu, another film that Christine Choy co-directed, was about the effect of the 1992 Los Angeles riots on the Korean American community there, and directly deals with the racial animosity towards Asians in America, but more specifically Asian women.

Christine Choy instructs a course called "Directing the Thesis" to third-year students.

Additionally, Christine Choy has teaching experience at Yale, Cornell, Buffalo State University of New York, and City University in Hong Kong.