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Renee Tajima-Pena

A-Doc, UCLA
Participates in 3 items
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña has explored issues of race, immigration and social justice as series producer of Asian Americans, producer/director of Who Killed Vincent Chin? My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha, Calavera Highway, No Más Bebés and co-founder of the May 19 Project (with Jeff Chang) Her films screened at Cannes Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and Whitney Biennial. She was awarded two Peabody’s, Guggenheim Fellowship, USA Broad Fellowship, and a Alpert Award in the Arts. In 2005 she launched UC Santa Cruz’s SocDoc graduate program and she holds an endowed chair at UCLA where she is professor of Asian American Studies.

Sessions in which Renee Tajima-Pena participates

Tuesday 27 September, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
12:15
12:15
Asian American Filmmakers Meeting
1 hour, 12:15 - 13:15

The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum

Chi-hui Yang, Ford Foundation (Moderator)

Leo Chiang (Participant)

Grace Lee, Asian American Documentary Network (Participant)

Renee Tajima-Pena, A-Doc, UCLA (Participant)

15:00
15:00
Filmmaker-to-Filmmaker: Funding and Artists of Color
1 hour, 15:00 - 16:00

The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum

Meeting

Jason DaSilva, AXS LAB INC. (Participant)

Moira Griffin, New Bumper and Paint Productions (Moderator)

Byron Hurt, God Bless the Child Productions, LLC (Participant)

Anayansi Prado, Impacto Films (Participant)

Renee Tajima-Pena, A-Doc, UCLA (Participant)

Christopher Wong (Participant)

Wednesday 28 September, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
9:15
9:15
When the Lion Learns to Speak: Representation and Agency in Documentary Filmmaking
1 hour 30 minutes, 9:15 - 10:45

Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater

Sonya Childress, Firelight Media (Moderator)

Jack Pettibone Riccobono (Participant)

Rob Brown (Participant)

Mohammad Mubarak (Participant)

Steve James (Participant)

Deborah S. Esquenazi, Myth of Monsters Media, LLC (Participant)

Anna Vasquez (Participant)

Renee Tajima-Pena, A-Doc, UCLA (Participant)

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