Reporter Volume 25, No.20 March 10, 1994

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Bureau Staff
Award-winning filmmaker and Oscar nominee Christine Choy and
Native-American humanities scholar M. Annette Jaimes will be featured
in "Toward an Anti-Racist Feminism 5," the fifth annual speakers
series sponsored by the Women's Studies Program in the Department of
American Studies at UB. 
The series, subtitled "Race, Gender and the Politics of
Representation," will be held March 21-22 on both campuses and will
address the image of women and racial minorities in the media in
general and in the movie industry in particular.
In connection with the series, three of Choy's award-winning
filmsQ"Who Killed Vincent Chin," "SA-I-GU" and "Out of Silence"--will
be screened twice: Monday, March 14, from 4-7 p.m. in 120 Clemens Hall
and Thursday, March 17, from 5-8 p.m. in the West Room of the downtown
branch of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. All events are
free of charge and open to the public.
The series opens Monday, March 21, with keynote speeches by Choy and
Jaimes at 7 p.m., in Diefendorf 147.
Choy will present a talk titled "Color Scheme of the Movie Industry
from an Independent Point of View." Jaimes will follow with a
presentation titled "False Images of Native Women in Hollywood Cinema:
Towards Indigenous Liberation."
On Tuesday, March 22, the two will present
"Talkshops"Qworkshop/discussionsQfrom 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Room 330
of the UB Student Union.
Jaimes will lead a discussion titled "Alternatives to
Institutionalized Racism in the Media" from 9-11 a.m. Choy will
discuss "Ethnic Tensions" from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Choy has earned international acclaim as a producer-director of
award-winning films and videos. Her dozens of major awards include the
Golden Gate Award at the 1993 San Francisco Film Festival for "Homes
Apart Two Korea;" the 1992 Hong Kong International Film Festival
Achievement Award for "Mississippi Triangle;" the 1992 ACE Award for
Best Documentary Special and first place in the 1990 Mannheim
International Film Festival for "Best Hotel on Skid Row," which also
won first place in the 1991 London Film Festival and other prizes.
She received the 1991 Alfred DuPont Columbia Award, the 1990 George
Foster Peabody Award and several other national commendations for "Who
Killed Vincent Chin," which in 1989 was named outstanding film of the
year at the London International Film Festival and was nominated for
an academy award as best feature documentary.
Choy most recently produced, directed and videographed "SA-I-GU," a
documentary on Los Angeles' Korea-Town in the wake of the Rodney King
verdict. She has won more than 20 additional major national or
international film prizes since 1974 for these and other films,
including "To Love Honor and Obey," "From Spikes to Spindles,"
"People's Firehouse Number One" and "Teach Our Children."
Choy has also produced short experimental films, a seven-part series
of films on teaching and "Fortune Cookies: The Myth of the Model
Minority," funded by the NEA, the New York State Council on the Arts
and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Her works-in-progress includes "Fear of Disclosure," a film on HIV and
AIDS funded by the Paul Robeson Foundation and the New York
Foundation; a documentary titled "Shao Lin, Art of Zen"; a 16 mm film
titled "Remember Najing 1937" and a 90-minute feature titled "Wedding
in Heaven."
	She holds a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia
University.
	Jaimes, a Mexican American affiliated with the California
Mission and Yaqui bands of Juas taught courses at Boulder related to
American Indian women's experiences, pre-Columbian Native America and
race and ethnic relations. She has also lectured widely on these and
other topics.
	Her publications include several books, notably "Fantasies of
the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American
Indians" (1992), and many articles on the image and myths associated
with American Indians, environmental ethics, popular feminism among
indigenous women and the state of contemporary Indian education in the
United States.
	Jaimes has served as a consultant to the U.S. departments of
education and state in matters pertaining to personnel and proposal
review and has served as an education policy consultant to the Navajo
Nation and other groups. She holds a doctorate in education from
Arizona State University.