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‘The Art and Activism of Renee Tajima-Peña’
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SAN JOSE The Film & Theatre Department at San José State University present “Not Your Model Minority: The Art and Activism of Renee Tajima-Peña” from Feb, 16 to April 22.
For nearly 30 years, documentary filmmaker, producer, and activist Renee Tajima-Peña has chronicled movements for racial and reproductive justice in the United States. Her films are part of a larger Asian American alternative cinema movement – a movement committed to challenging the myth of Asian Americans as a “model minority” by creating and distributing media focused on social justice, intersectionality, and coalition-building among Asian, Black, and Latinx communities.
Feature films, shorts and discussions highlight Asian American artists and themes of history, struggle and joy
UCLA
As part of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Film Festival, there will be a special screening of “Chinatown Rising” on Feb. 26. Marisa Soto |
February 9, 2021
The online program includes six features, 13 short films, one television episode and one webisode, all of which offer powerful imagery and poignant commentary about meaningful issues facing Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Audiences will hear from filmmakers and actors about their creative journeys, as well as from scholars, artists and community leaders on themes that apply to today’s world.
Corky Lee Remembered for Documenting Asian America
COVID-19 claims legendary photographer who chronicled Asian American experience.
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Corky Lee with his photo of Muhammad Ali in 2008 at a career retrospective held at the Chinese American Museum (CAM) and El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument. (MARIO GERSHOM REYES/Rafu Shimpo)
By ELLEN ENDO, Rafu Shimpo
Corky Lee, a New York-based photojournalist whose work spanned five decades and covered subjects from the Asian American Movement in the 1970s to the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, has passed away at the age of 73 due to complications from COVID-19.
A self-taught photographer, Lee is remembered for his ability to capture many of America’s most defining moments, and his work appeared in