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Dear Corky (2022)
Updated: Oct 12, 2022
Hi, everyone. Our short little film, "Dear Corky," has started to make its way in the world.
For over fifty years, New York native Corky Lee photographed his hometown's Chinatown, and Asian American communities around the country. With a strong sense of social justice, he captured activists, celebrities, and everyday heroes with equal passion, taking over a hundred thousand photos. Sadly, while documenting the latest rise of anti-Asian hate crimes, Corky fell to COVID. Through his own words and pictures, Dear Corky reveals the man behind the camera.
UPCOMING SCREENINGS
October 15, 2022, Saturday, 10:40am
Albuquerque Chinese American Film Festival
Saturday, October 22 @ 2:00pm
Boston Asian American Film Festival
Sunday, November 6 @ 12:30pm
Saturday, November 12 @ 2:00pm
Hawaii International Film Festival
PAST SCREENINGS
May 10, 2022, Tuesday - Sneak Preview
May 13, 2022, Friday - World Premiere
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
May 25, Wednesday - Sneak Preview
Museum of the City of New York
June 2, Thursday
July 16, Saturday, 7:00pm
DC APA Film Festival (Washington DC)
July 28, 2022, Thursday, 1:00pm
Asian American Journalists Association Conference (Los Angeles)
August 4, 2022, Thursday, 6:00pm
August 13, 2022, Saturday, 7:00pm - New York City Premiere
Asian American International Film Festival (New York)
THE TEAM
Director - Curtis Chin (bio below)
Writers - Curtis Chin, Adam Wolman
Producers - Curtis Chin, Kenneth Eng (bio below), Adam Wolman
Executive Producers - Jeffrey Kim, Cynthia Lin
Director of Photography - Kenneth Eng
Editor - Kenneth Eng
Composer - Matthew Wang (bio below) Photo Archivist - Chee Wang Ng
Running time: 17:41
PRESS COVERAGE
A Photographer's Mission to Write Asian Americans Back Into History
Bloomberg News, Linda Poon, May 17, 2022
Video report from Spectrums's NY-1
Spectrum News, Ron Lee, May 27, 2022
Asian American Journalists Association, Hayden Park, June 1, 2022
TEAM BIOS
Curtis Chin
Curtis Chin is a graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Michigan, Curtis Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts and more. Chin has screened his films, Vincent Who? and Tested, with over 600 entities in sixteen countries including the White House, Amnesty International, and the Government of Norway. A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, his memoir, “Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" will be published by Little, Brown in Fall 2023.
Kenneth Eng
Kenneth Eng is a director, editor and executive producer. After graduating from Boston Latin School, Ken left for New York in 1994 to study film at the School of Visual Arts. His thesis Scratching Windows, a short documentary film about graffiti writers, was broadcast as part of the doc series REEL NY on WNET - NY PBS. In 2001, Ken directed and edited Take Me to The River a feature length documentary about the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, India. Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball, his film about the famous Koshien Tournament in Japan was nationally broadcast on PBS as part of POV and continues to play in Japan on NHK-TV. In 2007, Ken was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship to launch My Life In China. Recently, he edited Tested for director Curtis Chin, and is currently collaborating with him on a film “Our Chinatown” about the challenges chinatowns across America face. Ken is also involved in "The Great China Baseball Hunt" a film about the rise of baseball in China.
Adam Wolman
Drawing on his experience in television programming, Adam consults for companies and individuals creating content for all media. As the #2 exec at HBO Digital, Adam developed short-form series for HBO’s digital platforms. As Executive Consultant, Disney|ABC Television Group, he was brought on to help launch ABC’s award-winning Micro-Mini Series; the position was expanded to include sharing oversight of the Disney|ABC Writing Fellowship and other programs. Previously, Adam was VP, Original Series, Current and Development for MTV, covering comedy, drama, and reality and serving as exec in charge of production on several shows. Before MTV, Adam was Director, Comedy Series Programming at ABC Entertainment and Program Analyst at CBS Productions.
Matthew Wang
Matthew Wang is a Hollywood Music In Media Award-winning Asian American film and television composer who blends natural organic soundscapes with live instruments and electronic textures, creating atmospheres unique to each project. Born and raised in New York City, Matthew graduated from the NYU Tisch Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in 2018. Since then, he has written music for shows including New Amsterdam (NBC), Shrill (HULU), Mrs. Fletcher (HBO), Yellowjackets (Showtime), and Glow (Netflix). Additionally, Matthew has composed music for the Pharrell Williams Executive Produced Netflix Original Kids Show, Brainchild, as well as sonic wellness app Spiritunes. Matthew composed the music for Joseph Juhn's acclaimed documentary, Jeronimo, which tells the little-known story of the Korean diaspora community in Cuba, and particularly an unsung hero, Jeronimo Lim. The film had a theatrical release in Korea in 2019. He also co-composed IFC Midnight feature thriller Centigrade with Trey Toy and co-composed RENO 911: The Hunt for QANON with Craig Wedren. He also composed the score and wrote an original song for Shaquille O'Neal executive-produced animated short film, Headnoise.
THANK YOUS
Thank you to the support of Corky Lee and the Corky Lee estate.
MAJOR SUPPORTERS
Debbie Chen
Chinatown Railroad Workers Descendents Association
Chinese American Citizens Alliance
Michael Kwan
Cynthia Lin
Wing Tek Lum
OCA
SUPPORTERS
Ted Gong
In memory of Mikela D. Kwan, OD
Munson & Suellen Kwok
1882 Foundation
Adrian Arima
Melanie Chan
Davace Chin
Chinese American Citizens Alliance - Salinas Chapter
Lillian Gee
Ryan Hopkins
Shirley Kwan
Catherine Lee
Johnny Lee
Kevin Lee
Lillie Lee
Derrick E. Lim
Nancy Lo
Robin Lung
Tak Kuen Charles Mau
Calvin Moy
George Chunkau Mui
Virginia Ng
Sons of the American Legion, Lt. B.R. Kimlau Chinese Memorial Squadron 1291
Karen Su
G Tan
Pinduan Tong
Wai Fung Tong
Douglas Wong
Fay Yao
Donna Young
Mandy Yu
Additional thanks to
Alan Chin
Amy Chin
Asian Cinevision
Boeing Company
Chinese American Citizens Alliance Greater New York
Samantha Eng
Rob Gee
Vic Huey
Hyphen Magazine
International Documentary Association
Jeff Kim
Lois Lee
Virgo Lee
Potri Ranka Manis
Glenn Magpantay
Shirley Ng
Stanley Ng
Mae Ngai
Think Chinatown
Esther Chae Von Zielbauer
Betty Wong
John Woo
Roger and Irvi Woo