Teach Our Children (Susan Robeson & Christine Choy, 1972)
Screening of Teach Our Children, #InTheCinema on Wednesday, September 8th at 7:30PM EDT.
Join us, back in the Maysles Documentary Center Cinema for a screening of Teach Our Children (Susan Robeson & Christine Choy, 1972). This screening will be followed by recorded conversation with Christine Choy (Teach Our Children) and JT Takagi (Third World Newsreel).
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This film will be screening as part of the series Abolition Now! 50 Years of the Attica Prison Uprising curated by Emily Apter. Co-presented by Maysles Documentary Center and Third World Newsreel and in collaboration with Attica Is All of Us, The Freedom Archives, and the Documentary Forum at CCNY.
ABOUT Christine Choy and JT Takagi:
Christine Choy co-founded Third World Newsreel in 1972 with fellow filmmaker Susan Robeson. During her tenure, Choy directed documentary films on the 1971 Attica prison uprising, the life of women in US prisons and the history of social activism in New York City's Chinatown, as well as documentaries on the division of the Korean peninsula and Namibia's struggle for independence from South Africa, among others. After leaving Third World Newsreel, Choy went on to produce and direct more than 70 works and earned an Academy Award nomination, along with Renee Tajima-Peña, for their historic documentary WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN?
JT Takagi is an award winning independent film maker and sound recordist. Her films are primarily on Asian/Asian-American and immigrant issues and include Bittersweet Survival, Homes Apart: Korea; The Women Outside; and North Korea: Beyond the DMZ, which all aired nationally on PBS. As a sound engineer, she has recorded for numerous public television and theatrical documentaries with Emmy and Cinema Audio Society nominations including the 2018 Oscar nominated Strong Island by Yance Ford, Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution by Stanley Nelson, and American Experience and American Masters programs. She also manages Third World Newsreel, a non-profit alternative media center that fosters media by and about people of color and social justice issues, and serves on the boards of both community and national Asian American organizations working on peace and social justice.
