Free Chol Soo Lee
Before Vincent Chin, there was Chol Soo Lee. Lee This film revisits this wrenching and largely forgotten episode in Asian American history by recounting the story of how Lee, wrongly convicted of murder, became a flashpoint for Asian American activism in the 1970s and how his life, post-release, threatened to tarnish, and even undo, the movement’s legacy. A tale of an immigrant’s search for belonging, the evolution of Asian American political identity, and the human toll of being a symbol.