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As one of the most prolific filmmakers in Asian American history, Christine Choy made films out of anger and love. She was a provocateur and trailblazer caught between the intersection of activism and cinema. Though a single program to encompass five decades of a filmic career is a drop in a bucket, in dedication to her work in spotlighting LA stories, Visual Communications honors her memory with a May Day screening of Sa-I-Gu (1993), her urgent, yet intimate portrayal of Korean American women following the 1992 LA Uprising in Koreatown.
In this program
Sa-I-Gu
Directed by Christine Choy, Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Elaine H. Kim
Violence, arson and looting erupted in South Central Los Angeles, sparked by the acquittal of the four policemen who had beaten an African American, Rodney King. Sa-I-Gu, literally April 29, presents this Los Angeles crisis from the perspectives of Korean women shopkeepers and offers an alternative to mainstream media’s inability or refusal to present the voices of victims in human terms but make them issues and numbers.
Dates & Times
Directors Guild of America
May 1, 2026
4:00 pm
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