First Vote 2020 Directed by Yi Chen
Asian American Voters in Battleground States
A soon-to-be first-time voter, the filmmaker’s thought-provoking journey into the Rust Belt and South captures four Asian American voters’ ardent first time grassroots political participation ignited by the 2016 rise of “Chinese Americans for Trump.” FIRST VOTE is a character driven cinema verité style film chronicling the democratic participation of four Asian American voters from 2016 through the 2018 midterm elections.
Gnere
Documentary
Production Companies
ITVS
,
Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
,
Open Society Foundations
,
Ford Foundation - Just Films
,
C35 Films
Release Date 5 May 2020
59 mins
