Our 2014 summer film series, JA Filmmakers, kicked off in May with "Visioning Asian America," a retrospective on the work of Duane Kubo. In June, we offer two back-to-back programs featuring Japanese American documentary filmmakers. And in July, we will feature contemporary filmmakers who are known for films that are not documentaries.
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1:00 p.m.
 
Documentary Filmmakers Panel
This program features a panel of Japanese American Bay Area documentary filmmakers:

• DIANNE FUKAMI is a San Francisco native and former news executive at KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Her latest film, Stories From Tohoku , has been making the film festival circuit and was featured last month on PBS. Other documentary film projects have includedSeparate Lives: Broken Dreams (1994); Emmy-nominated documentary on the Chinese Exclusion Act), several documentaries on the Japanese American experience for PBS (KCSM-TV), and The Spirit of Taiko (2005).

• EMIKO OMORI is an-award winning cinematographer and director who has worked on more than 20 films, including several award-winning documentaries. Her films includeRabbit in the Moon (1999), Passion & Power: The Technology of Orgasm (2007), andEd Hardy: Tattoo the World (2010). In 2000, Rabbit in the Moon, won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Historical Programming." 
•  YURIKO GAMO ROMER is a graduate of Stanford University's masters program in documentary filmmaking. Her most recent documentary is Mrs. Judo: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful (2012), featuring Keiko Fukuda, the highest-ranking woman in judo history. Romer's other films include Occidental Encounters (1998; award-winning film about mixed marriages) and the short historical animation Friend Ships (about Manjiro, one of five Japanese fishermen found by an American whaling ship in 1841).

2:30 p.m.
Rabbit in the Moon

(film screening with filmmaker)
The documentary filmmakers panel will be followed by a special screening of the Emmy Award- winning documentary Rabbit in the Moon, a documentary/memoir about the Omori family's confinement in an American WWII concentration camp. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; was broadcast on POV; and has won numerous other awards, including a National Emmy.
 
A Q&A session with producer/director Emiko Omori will follow the screening.    

 Cost: Free with admission to the museum (nonmembers, $5; students and seniors over age 65, $3; JAMsj members and children under 12, free).    

 
Contact PublicPrograms@jamsj.org or call (408) 294-3138 to reserve a spot.