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
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- Asian American Filmmakers Meeting The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum
- 12:15 - 13:15 | 1 hour
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- Filmmaker-to-Filmmaker: Funding and Artists of Color The Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial - Fire Museum
- 15:00 - 16:00 | 1 hour
- Meeting
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- When the Lion Learns to Speak: Representation and Agency in Documentary Filmmaking Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 9:15 - 10:45 | 1 hour 30 minutes