upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

Rea Tajiri

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2020 Leeway Transformation Award – $15,000

Rea Tajiri is an award-winning director/producer and educator who creates installation, documentary and experimental films. Her work situates itself in poetic, non-traditional storytelling forms to encourage dialog and reflection around buried histories of people of color. History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige, is her award-winning 1991 film about the incarceration of American Japanese during World War II told in an essay collage. Strawberry Fields, was a dramatic narrative feature released in 1998 about a young Japanese American woman coming of age during the 1970's in Chicago who embarks on a road trip to explore her families past. Her current project, Wisdom Gone Wild, explores a person-centered approach to caregiving during her sixteen year journey as a care partner to her mother who was diagnosed with dementia. Tajiri has received support for her work through CAAM, ITVS, and was a NYFA Fellow.

 

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04/025:30 pm - 7:00 pm

4/2 Transformation Award (LTA) Awardee Panel + Info Session (In Person)

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04/185:30 pm - 6:30 pm

4/18 Transformation Award (LTA) Info Session (Virtual)

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