Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Dies in Hospice Care: Christine Choy Was 73

Christine Choy, a trailblazing Asian American filmmaker known for the groundbreaking film Who Killed Vincent Chin?, has died.

According to AsAmNews, Choy died on December 7 while in hospice care in New York City. The cause of death has not been revealed. The filmmaker was 73.

Choy was one of the first Asian American women nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for her 1987 film Who Killed Vincent Chin?, which she co-directed with Renee Tajima-Peña.

Born in Shanghai to a Korean father and Chinese mother, Choy moved to New York City at 14. There, she became active in the Black Panther Party and local activism. While at Manhattanville College, she joined Newsreel (later Third World Newsreel), a filmmaker collective documenting key social movements of the late 1960s.

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