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Chinatown: Immigrants in America (1976)
Directed by Jon Alpert, Yoko Maruyama, Keiko Tsuno
Documentary · 59m
Produced by DCTV in response to what its makers saw as distorted media portrayals of New York City’s Chinatown, "Chinatown: Immigrants in America" (1976) offers an unvarnished portrait of an immigrant community confronting poverty, labor exploitation, and cultural displacement. Directed by Jon Alpert and Yoko Maruyama, the film documents restaurant, garment, and service workers enduring low wages and unsafe conditions while struggling to build lives in America.
Cast
Jon Alpert
Crew
- Director
- Jon Alpert, Yoko Maruyama, Keiko Tsuno
- Writer
- Jon Alpert
Details
- Release date
- 1976-11-01
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Downtown Community Television Center