Renee Tajima-Peña
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Renee Tajima-Peña is an award-winning film director and producer, notable for "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" (PBS), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and "MY AMERICA...or Honk if You Love Buddha."[1]
[edit] Education
Tajima-Peña was born in Chicago and raised in Altadena, California, where she graduated from John Muir High School in the class of 1976. She received a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies and Sociology, from Harvard-Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA, in 1980.[2] She is currently an associate professor of community studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
[edit] Honors
Her honors include an Academy Award nomination for Best Feature Documentary, a Peabody Award, a Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the James Wong Howe “Jimmie” Award, the Justice in Action Award, and an International Documentary Association Achievement Award, the Media Achievement Award from MANAA, the Steve Tatsukawa Memorial Award and the APEX Excellence in the Arts Award. She has twice earned Fellowships in Documentary Film from both the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Foundation on the Arts. Her works have been broadcast around the world and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, London Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and many other venues.)[3][4]
Credits include:
- "The New Americans" (PBS)
- "My Journey Home" (PBS)
- "Lab or Women"
- "The Last Beat Movie" (Sundance Channel)
- "The Best Hotel on Skid Row" (Home Box Office)
- "Jennifer’s in Jail" (Lifetime Television)
- "Declarations: All Men Are Created Equal?" (PBS)
- "What Americans Really Think of the Japanese" (Fujisankei)
