A retrospective of some of the films Christine Choy made with Third World Newsreel. This panel on May 12, 2021 followed the streaming of 4 films: Teach Our Children, From Spikes to Spindles, Bittersweet Survival and Homes Apart: Korea as part of the Asian Pacific Virtual Showcase presented by Visual Communications. The panel featured Christine Choy; Sarah Ahn of the Flushing Workers Center (flushingworkerscenter.org); Devika Girish, co-deputy editor of Film Comment magazine and a Talks programmer at the New York Film Festival, and author; Ju-Hyun Park of Nodutdol for Korean Community Development (nodutdol.org) and JT Takagi, ED of Third World Newsreel (twn.org) and codirector of Bittersweet Survival and Homes Apart. Curated and moderated by Peter Kim George, film critic, lecturer and playwright. To see the Flushing Worker Center video: go to vimeo.com/286121886/b95cda0cb6 This program is part of the Organizing and Filmmaking: Then and Now series, and was presented by Third World Newsreel with cosponsorship by Visual Communications, the Documentary Forum at CCNY, A/P/A Institute at NYU, the Asian and Asian American Research Institute, CUNY. TWN is supported in part by the National Endowment For the Arts, the NY State Council on the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Peace Development Fund and individual donors. To rent or license these films, contact twn@twn.org.
