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- Birth nameChai Ming Huei
- Christine Choy was born on September 17, 1949 in Shanghai, China. She was a director and producer, known for The Shot Heard 'Round the World (1997), Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987) and Long Story Short (2008). She was married to Allan Siegel. She died on December 7, 2025 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseAllan Siegel(1979 - ?) (divorced, 1 child)
- Pioneer Asian American filmmaker.
- Also co-founded AsianCinevision in New York, the producers of the annual Asian American International Film Festival.
- Used to babysit Tupac Shakur.
- During her anti Vietnam protest period she was on familiar terms with members of the Black Panther Party as well as the radical group Weather Underground.
- Two of her NYU students, Ben Klein and Violet Columbus, turned the camera on her in 2022 for "The Exiles," a documentary that chronicled her attempt to finish a film about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing — a project she abandoned when money dried up.
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