[Herald Interview] Directors say 'Free Chol Soo Lee' asks us all to self-reflect
In 1973, Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old immigrant from Korea to the US, was sentenced to life in prison, wrongfully convicted for a gang murder in San Francisco's Chinatown. “Free Chol Soo Lee,” former journalist Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s first documentary film, explores the complicated, “messy” life of Chol Soo who spends 10 years fighting for his life inside California’s prisons...