Indie Lens Pop-Up
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
12:00 p.m. CST

Registration for in-person screening and conversation is encouraged, but not required. RSVP here.

Sentenced to death for a lurid 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans helped to overturn his conviction. After ten years of fighting for his life inside San Quentin, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him. On his journey from an inspiring icon to a swing-shift janitor struggling with drug addiction, Chol Soo Lee personifies the ravages of America’s prison industrial complex.

There will be a postscreening community conversation. Guest speaker(s) to be announced.

Free Chol Soo Lee will premiere on Milwaukee PBS on April 23, 2023.