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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