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IndieLens Pop-Up Film Screening & Discussion: Free Chol Soo Lee
Sun., May 21, 2023 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
WSIU and the Carbondale Public Library will host a screening and community conversation centered on the Independent Lens film Free Chol Soo Lee by filmmakers Julie Ha and Eugene Yi. Guest presenter is Dr. Mingqing Xiao, a Chinese American professor of mathematics at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, who will lead a discussion after the film. This event is taking place at the library.
About the film: Sentenced to life for a 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement, which included Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans, helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside California state prisons, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him.
