The Fall Of The I-Hotel

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The Fall of The I-Hotel (2005) is a documentary directed by Curtis Choy about the displacement of hundreds of Filipino immigrants from Manilatown, a small subdivision located in San Francisco. The demolition of Manilatown was part of an urban renewal and redevelopment movement in the 1960s, what planned to utilize the block to expand the city's business sector. After a twenty years long protest by the I-hotel residents and their supporters, the I-hotel was demolished in 1981, four years after the eviction of the last remaining tenants of the hotel. The film was edited in 2005 to include a new beginning and ending, which help to keep this issue alive in the discussion of injustices against Asian Americans. From the beginning of the documentary,