First Vote

About First Vote

A soon-to-be first-time voter, the filmmaker’s thought-provoking journey into the Rust Belt and South captures four Asian American voters’ ardent first time grassroots political participation ignited by the 2016 rise of “Chinese Americans for Trump.” FIRST VOTE is a character driven cinema verité style film chronicling the democratic participation of four Asian American voters from 2016 through th…

First Vote is a 2020 documentary film directed by Yi Chen. The film is filed under USA politics and USA election.

Released in May 2020, it runs 59 minutes.

American members can watch it on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel.

The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump make useful companions to First Vote.