In this session, two critically acclaimed filmmaking teams will share the granular details of their working relationship, walking through scenes from meaningful recent films.
Tadashi Nakamura
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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. In 2025, he returned to Sundance to premiere his latest film, Third Act (2025), about his pioneering filmmaker father, Robert A. Nakamura. With over 20 years of filmmaking experience, his films include Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song In Movement (2024), Benkyodo: The Last Manju Shop In J-Town (2023), Atomic Cafe: The Nosiest Corner In J-Town (2020), Mele Murals (2016), Jake Shimabukuro: Life On Four Strings (2013), A Song For Ourselves (2009), and Pilgrimage (2006).