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Tad Nakamura, His Life and FSN 1972

  • By Kayla Tanaka
  • 26 Jul 2019

Los Angeles’s Japanese American community has always been ‘home’ to filmmaker, Tad Nakamura. Growing up in West LA and playing basketball with other Japanese ...

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Exploring race and identity at the Hapa Half Heritage forum

  • By Bruce Rutledge
  • 18 Apr 2018

What does it mean to be hapa? Interdisciplinary artist Paul Kikuchi has been thinking about that question a lot lately as he prepares to run ...

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An Interview with Filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña

  • By Carol Cheh
  • 6 Mar 2018

Renee Tajima-Peña is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and professor of Asian American Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. Her documentary projects focus on immigrant ...

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Transpacific Borderlands: Behind the Scenes with Artist Shinpei Takeda

  • By Darryl Mori
  • 2 Feb 2018

“Some people think my work looks like it’s speaking something like a megaphone,” says Shinpei Takeda. “And some people think it is trying to ...

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Resistance at Tule Lake—Talking with Filmmaker Konrad Aderer

  • By Tamiko Nimura
  • 29 Jan 2018

In these difficult political times, resistance appears every day—from marches to political organizing to Star Wars movies to hashtags. But for many within the ...

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Hidden Histories: A Q&A with Filmmakers, Eugene Park and Jason Matsumoto

  • By Danielle Yuki Yang
  • 22 Sep 2017

Hidden Histories Trailer from Full Spectrum Features on Vimeo. As the years have passed, the importance of the Japanese American story as a part of ...

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Into the Next Stage: MIS Stories Spotlighted in Bill Kubota's Next Documentary

  • By George Toshio Johnston
  • 18 Apr 2017

If you remember PBS’ 2007 Most Honorable Son—a documentary about Nebraska Nisei farmboy turned B-24 and B-29 turret gunner Ben Kuroki—then you’re ...

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Alejandro Yoshizawa: Crossing Oceans + Cultures in All Our Father’s Relations

  • By John Endo Greenaway
  • 23 Nov 2016

How you identify culturally is almost an internal dialogue with yourself. But an eye-opener for me while making All Our Father’s Relations was how ...

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Catching Up With Tad Nakamura

  • By Alison De La Cruz
  • 6 Sep 2016

I had a chance to sit down and talk with filmmaker Tad Nakamura about his newest documentary Mele Murals and its L.A. Premiere, co-presented ...

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Documentarian Greg Chaney: Honoring Juneau’s Japanese Community Unjustly Incarcerated during World War II

  • By Edward Yoshida
  • 25 Mar 2016

“There were no Japanese Americans left in Juneau at that time. It was a moment when this community came together in an act of quiet ...
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