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Chinatown Rising

July 3, 2019 by Julia Flynn Siler 2 Comments

This summer, I  saw the new film “Chinatown Rising” in San Francisco. It’s a new documentary directed by Harry Chuck and Josh Chuck, a father and son team. Both of them have been deeply involved with Cameron House,  whose early history I explore in my latest book.

The Rev. Harry Chuck, a social activist and now filmmaker, was a youth director and then Executive Director of Cameron House. He mentioned to his son Josh, who also worked at Cameron House over the years, that he was thinking about getting rid of some film reels that had been sitting in his garage for decades. Josh asked if he could see them first.

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Filed Under: Asian Americans, Film Tagged With: activism, cameron house, Chinatown, documentary film, san francisco

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