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FINDING KUKAN

Finding Kukan - Uncovering the Story of An Asian-American Female Producer from the 1940's

KUKAN, a landmark color film that revealed the atrocities of World War II China to audiences around the world, was the first ever American feature documentary to receive an Academy Award in 1942 and was considered lost for decades. When filmmaker Robin Lung discovers a badly damaged film print of KUKAN, she pieces together the inspirational tale of the two renegades behind the making of it — Chinese American playwright Li Ling-Ai and cameraman Rey Scott.

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