Series of Podcasts Focuses on Vincent Chin Case
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“Hold Still, Vincent,” a series of podcasts produced by actor Gemma Chan (“Eternals,” “Captain Marvel,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” “Humans”), was released Wednesday by Apple Podcasts.
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This table read of Johnny Ngo’s feature film script of the same name documents the true story of Vincent Chin, who was killed by two disgruntled autoworkers in the Detroit area in 1982. His murderers, who apparently had mistaken him for a Japanese, were given lenient sentences fines and probation which sparked a civil rights movement within the Asian American community.
“Hold Still, Vincent” is an unflinching and visceral examination of one family’s fight for justice that is conducive to the current racial zeitgeist in America today.
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She s partnering with A-Major Media and M88 for a topical podcast about Asian American civil rights and a table read of the feature screenplay Hold Still, Vincent, with an eye toward a film adaptation.
Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat 39 years ago, a galvanizing incident for the modern Asian American civil rights movement but an event that has been lost to history for most outside the community.
No longer. As the nation finally awakens to the violence that Asians continue to face in this country, Chin s story his killers never served jail time for the slaying is receiving fresh attention and soon can be experienced in narrative form via