Meet & Greet with Emmy-award winning filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura and Daytime Emmy nominated filmmaker Quyen Nguyen-Le
Houston, TX – NOBUKO MIYAMOTO: A SONG IN MOVEMENT, a sweeping documentary that chronicles the life and work of visionary artist-activist Nobuko Miyamoto, is set to premiere in Houston. This compelling film showcases Miyamoto’s decades-long journey in uniting communities and setting the bar for Asian American storytelling.
Screening Date: June 9, 2024, from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton, 10609 Westpark Dr, Houston, TX 77042
After decades of groundbreaking cultural work, Nobuko Miyamoto reflects on a life that has bridged coasts, industries, families, and history. Featuring rare archival footage, NOBUKO MIYAMOTO: A SONG IN MOVEMENT is a heartfelt story of a changing community told through the singular life of one of its most beloved storytellers.
Q&A Session: Engage with Emmy-award winning filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura and Daytime Emmy nominated filmmaker Quyen Nguyen-Le as they delve into the making of this remarkable documentary.
Tadashi Nakamura is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker and the Director of the Watase Media Arts Center, a production company of the Japanese American National Museum. Tadashi was named CNN’s “Young People Who Rock” for being the youngest filmmaker at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Now with over 20 years of filmmaking experience, his films include MELE MURALS (2016), JAKE SHIMABUKURO: LIFE ON FOUR STRINGS (2013), A SONG FOR OURSELVES (2009), and PILGRIMAGE (2006). He is currently working on THIRD ACT, about his pioneering filmmaker father, Robert A. Nakamura, and his current battle with Parkinson’s Disease.
Tadashi has an M.A. in Social Documentation from UC Santa Cruz and a B.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA. He made the DOC NYC ‘40 Under 40’ list in 2019 and was a 2020-2022 Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellows and a 2022-2023 Sundance Asian American Fellow. He is currently a mentor for the 2024 CAAM Fellowship and recipient of the 2024 Rockwood Documentary Leaders Fellowship.
Quyên Nguyen-Le is a daytime emmy nominated queer Vietnamese filmmaker born to refugee parents where Chumash and Tongva lands meet (San Fernando Valley, Los Ángeles). Quyên's film work focuses on the ways histories are deeply felt in the quotidian everyday. Regularly studied in university classrooms, their short films Nước (Water/Homeland) (2016) and Hoài (Ongoing, Memory) (2018) have also screened in film festivals, art galleries, libraries, and community spaces worldwide. Their short documentary The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard (2019) opened the 20th San Diego Asian Film Festival as a part of the omnibus project The Paradise We Are Looking For. In Living Memory (2022) is available to stream on PBS as an episode of WORLD Channel's series Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond. Recently, Quyên was an Associate Producer for two Sundance award winning feature films - Julie Ha and Eugene Yi's Free Chol Soo Lee and Sing J. Lee's The Accidental Getaway Driver.
Quyên completed B.A. degrees in Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Politics & Law from the University of Southern California's program in Santiago, Chile and holds a M.A. in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine. Quyên's work has been supported by Kartemquin Films, Points North Institute, Center for Asian American Media, the National Multicultural Alliance's Producer Lab, Visual Communications, and the California Arts Council.
Join us for an inspiring journey through the life of an icon, witness the power of art in motion, and experience the legacy of Nobuko Miyamoto.
🎟️ Get Your Tickets Now at: www.haapifest.org/tickets to secure your place at this unforgettable event.