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Kizuna 2020: Bondad y solidaridad nikkei durante la pandemia de COVID-19

Japanese Canadian Art in the Time of Covid-19 - Part 4

Read Part 3 >> So, here we are entering fall 2020 and the second wave of Covid-19 is upon Canada…. the inevitable has arrived. So, from ...

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Tad Nakamura, His Life and FSN 1972

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

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

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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Resistance at Tule Lake—Talking with Filmmaker Konrad Aderer

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

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

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

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

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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ハリウッドに賭ける映画監督・北村龍平　その２

その１を読む＞＞ 封印された第１作 ハリウッドでの第１作は「ミッドナイト・ミートトレイン ...