The Center for Asian American Media's CAAMFest has grown into one of the largest film festivals in the country, and on Thursday the festival will return in front of a live audience for the first time since the pandemic.
has grown into one of the largest film festivals in the country, and on Thursday the festival will return in front of a live audience for the first time since the pandemic.
This includes the festival's Opening Night film at the Castro Theater,"Free Chol Soo Lee" - a documentary that looks back at a local gangland murder investigation in San Francisco Chinatown in 1973."It is about a real case in the Bay Area, but largely forgotten," said Tran."When you break down that case, the reason that he was wrongfully convicted was they were looking for a Chinese person to blame Cho Soo Lee is Korean.
"And you see them face white supremacists in their neighborhood are targeting their restaurant," said Tran."That's another deeply moving documentary."
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