Driven Mind
Artist
Kimberlee Bassford
A half-hour documentary about Iris Chang, a Chinese-American historian and author of the bestselling book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. She became an outspoken advocate for Chinese and Chinese American communities, especially on issues relating to war. Seven years after her groundbreaking work, she committed suicide. The documentary interweaves the last six months of her life and her rapid descent into depression, medication and suicide, with her life as a driven child, journalist, activist and mother. The film explores mental illness through Chang’s story and aims to reduce the stigma associated with these issues among Asian Americans.
