Mississippi Triangle

Directed By Christine Choy, Worth Long, Allan Siegel

USA | Documentary | 110 min

MISSISSIPPI TRIANGLE was preserved with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation and the NY Women in Film and Television’s (NYWIFT) Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF).

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s director Christine Choy and  JT Takagi from Third World Newsreel. It will be moderated by AAIFF programmer Hai-Li Kong.

This is an ACV50: Retrospective Screening.

— About MISSISSIPPI TRIANGLE —

This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans, and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict. The history of the Chinese community, originally brought to the South to work on cotton plantations after the Civil War, is framed against the harsh realities of civil rights, religion, politics, and class in the South. Rare historical footage and interviews of Delta residents are combined to create this unprecedented document of inter-ethnic relations in the American South.

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    • Date and Time

      Saturday, August 02 2025

      2:30 PM to 4:35 PM

    • Venue

      Regal Union Square - Auditorium 15

      850 Broadway
      New York, NY 10003

    Film Details

    1. English

    2. English

    3. 1984

    4. 110 minutes

    5. Documentary

    6. USA

      7. Christine Choy

        Worth Long

        Allan Siegel


      MISSISSIPPI TRIANGLE was produced by Christine Choy and Third World Newsreel, and was co-directed by Choy, along with Allan Siegel and Worth Long. Christine Choy led Newsreel with fellow filmmaker Susan Robeson as it became Third World Newsreel. In addition to MISSISSIPPI TRIANGLE, she went on to make 70 films and receive over 60 international awards, including an Oscar Nomination for Best Documentary. She was featured in the 2022 film, THE EXILES (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance) and received a lifetime achievement award from the 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival. Choy was also the founding director of the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong, and today, continues to teach film at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. - Allan Siegel has written, directed, edited and produced dozens of films examining various social and political issues. A co-founder of the original Newsreel collective, Siegel worked on films documenting student and community protests, including THE COLUMBIA REVOLT (1968), WE DEMAND FREEDOM (1973), and many more. Siegel’s films confront questions of race, class, gender and nation. Siegel just retired from teaching at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, and has just released a new documentary about the murder of Malcolm X, INTRODUCTION TO AN EXECUTION, now on the festival circuit. - Worth Long (1936-2025) was an American folklorist and civil rights worker. He organized sit-ins in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1960, before joining SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) as a field secretary in 1963. Long worked to emphasize Black cultural organizing, especially after joining the Smithsonian Institution in 1970, to which he brought projects on African-American folklore and music. He was also a founder of the Mississippi Delta Blues Festival and worked on many festivals, including cultural events for the Knoxville World’s Fair and the Olympics in Atlanta.

      8. Christine Choy

      9. Associate Producers: Pearl Bower & Yuet-Fung Ho

        Original Music: Lee Ray

        Unit Cinematography: Ludwig Goon

        Principal Cinematography: Christine Choy & Kyle Kibbe

        Edited by Allan Siegel

        Sound Recordist: J.T. Takagi

        2nd Unit Director: Robert Nakamura

        Additional Cinematography: Charles Burnett & Steven Ning

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