Six years in the making, Julie Ha and Eugene Li’s new documentary Free Chol Soo Lee exposes the racism of the American justice system in 1970s America
. “I was not an angel on the outside, at the same time I was not the devil,” Lee tells Gin, setting the tone for Ha and Li’s film, which continues following his life up until his death in 2014, aged 62.
“At one point KW Lee stood up, almost angry. ‘Why is this story still underground? This landmark Asian-American social justice movement, why is it not known?’ He just knew this story and this history was hugely consequential and really singular.” “That really was important,” says Li, “to tell the full story of Chol Soo, and certainly it seemed like people were ready to talk about him and the way he affected them, with a candour that might have been difficult earlier.” Using archive footage, present-day interviews and animation,
. After it’s revealed that it played in the van that drove Lee to prison, the track is used intermittently as a vehicle for reflection, while Sebastian Yoon, a Korean-American with his own experiences of incarceration, humanises passages from Lee’s memoir as the narrator. “For a long time we felt this nagging insecurity that as much as we immersed ourselves in the words of Chol Soo, we still weren’t getting it all – and we wanted him to have agency.
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