By Jana Monji, AsAmNews Art & Culture Reporter(Editor’s Note: Free Chol Soo Lee opens this year’s CAAMFest40 on Thursday, May 12. Free Chol Soo Lee isn’t a call to action for Lee. Lee contacted Chol Soo Lee on 22 November 1977 and went on to produce over 100 articles about Chol Soo Lee during a five-year period (archived at UC Davis). These helped spark activists in the Korean American and Asian American community including a Free Chol Soo Lee Defense Committee. Free Chol Soo Lee premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 21 January 2022.

Source: Washington Post May 11, 2022 13:47 UTC