Christine Choy
Christine Choy | |||||||
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Choy in 1986 | |||||||
| Born | Chai Ming Huei September 17, 1949 Shanghai, China | ||||||
| Died | December 7, 2025 (aged 76) New York City, U.S. | ||||||
| Alma mater | Manhattanville College | ||||||
| Occupations | Filmmaker, director, documentarian, journalist, activist | ||||||
| Known for | Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1988) | ||||||
| Political party | Black Panther Party | ||||||
| Spouse |
Allan Siegel
(m. 1979, divorced) | ||||||
| Children | 3 | ||||||
| Awards | Academy Award for Best Documentary - Nominated (1989), "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Chinese | 崔明慧 | ||||||
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| Korean name | |||||||
| Hangul | 최명혜 | ||||||
| RR | Choe Myeonghye | ||||||
| MR | Ch'oe Myŏnghye | ||||||
Christine Choy (born Chai Ming Huei; September 17, 1949 or 1952 – December 7, 2025) was a Chinese American filmmaker. She was known for co-directing Who Killed Vincent Chin?, a 1988 documentary film based on the killing of Vincent Chin, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. She co-founded Third World Newsreel, a film company focusing on people of color and social justice issues, as well as Asian CineVision, a development and exhibition space for Asian/Asian American filmmakers. As a documentary filmmaker, she produced and directed more than eighty films. She was a professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She was the first Asian American feature-length documentary filmmaker with her first film preceding both “the godmother of Asian American cinema” Loni Ding’s first film by ten years and “godfather” Robert A Nakamura’s 1975 film Wataridori: Birds of Passage.