Film and Community Documentation in Hawai芒鈧渋 and Asian America

November 7, 10:30am - 11:15am
Mānoa Campus, Crawford 105

This presentation will feature Tadashi Nakamura, who was named one of CNN芒鈧劉s 芒鈧揧oung People Who Rock芒鈧 for being the youngest filmmaker at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival as well as one of the 芒鈧30 Most Influential Asian Americans Under 30芒鈧 by the popular website Angry Asian Man. The fourth generation Japanese American recently completed Mele Murals, a documentary on the transformative power of modern graffiti art and ancient Hawaiian culture for a new generation of Native Hawaiians. Mele Murals is screening at this year芒鈧劉s Hawai芒鈧渋 International Film Festival. His last film Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings was broadcasted nationally on PBS in May, 2013. The film went on to win the 2013 Gotham Independent Film Audience Award, beating out 12 Years a Slave and Fruitvale Station.

Nakamura芒鈧劉s trilogy of documentary films on the Japanese American experience, Yellow Brotherhood (2003), Pilgrimage (2007) and A Song for Ourselves (2009) have garnered over 20 awards at film festivals around the world. Nakamura has a M.A. in Social Documentation from UC Santa Cruz, a B.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.


Ticket Information
This event is free and open to the public.

Event Sponsor
UH-M脛聛noa Department of Ethnic Studies, Native Hawaiian Student Services, Office of Student Equity, Excellence, and Diversity, Mānoa Campus

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