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Christine Choy, the pioneering Chinese-American documentary filmmaker whose work chronicled Asian American life and injustices, died on November 7, 2025. She was 76 years old according to the New York Times, although other sources report her as 73. Choy was best known for co-directing the Oscar-nominated 1988 documentary “Who Killed Vincent Chin?”, about the racially motivated killing of a Chinese-American man in Detroit, a film that became a landmark in Asian American cultural history and was preserved in the U.S. National Film Registry for its significance. Choy made more than 80 films exploring social justice issues and was a co-founder of Third World Newsreel, a collective focused on films by and about people of color. She spent decades teaching documentary filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and was widely respected as a mentor. Her career helped shape both documentary cinema and the broader understanding of Asian American experiences.
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