The official New York premiere of the The Chinese Exclusion Act was hosted by Jack Tchen, founding director of the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and was followed by a discussion with the award-winning documentary filmmakers Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu of Steeplechase Films and special guest Kavitha Rajagopalan, a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and author of Muslims of Metropolis: The Stories of Three Immigrant Families in the West.