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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...
Chol Soo Lee (August 15, 1952 – December 2, 2014) was a Korean American immigrant who was wrongfully convicted for the 1973 murder of Yip Yee Tak, a San Francisco Chinatown gang leader, and sentenced to life in prison.
Aug 12, 2022 · Lee’s heartbreaking, remarkable, and undeniably complex story is the subject of Free Chol Soo Lee, a documentary by journalists and filmmakers Julie Ha and Eugene Yi that draws its name from...
Oct 18, 2023 · Watch the trailer and read reviews of this 2022 film that tells the story of Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee, who was falsely accused of a Chinatown gang murder in 1970s San Francisco. Learn how journalist K.W. Lee exposed the racism and corruption of the justice system and led a social movement to free Chol Soo Lee.
Aug 12, 2022 · “Free Chol Soo Lee,” the new documentary by Julie Ha and Eugene Yi, tells the tragic story of an immigrant wrongfully convicted of murder in San Francisco in 1973. That was just the latest bit of bad luck Lee encountered, but it would not be the last.
Aug 11, 2022 · “Free Chol Soo Lee” tells the story of a wrongfully convicted man who, after spending nearly a decade in prison, was ultimately vindicated in court. But it isn’t...
May 10, 2022 · Los Angeles filmmakers Eugene Yi and Julie Ha recount Lee’s terrible saga without histrionics or melodrama in their invaluable debut Free Chol Soo Lee. The documentary, which premiered at Sundance, opens the 40th annual CAAMFest on Thursday, May 12 at the Castro.
