Third Act

Filmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A.

Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “The Godfather of Asian American film,” but his son, Tad, calls him Dad. As the filmmaking son of a filmmaking legend, Tad uses the lessons his dad taught him to decipher the legacy of an aging man who was a child survivor of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans, a successful photographer who gave it up to tell his own story, an activist at the dawn of a social movement—and a father whose struggles have won his son freedoms that eluded Japanese Americans of his generation. As Parkinson’s Disease clouds his memory, Tad sets out to retrieve his story—and in the process discovers his own. The two have made films together, with Robert always by Tad’s side. THIRD ACT is most likely the last.

Credits
Writer: Victoria Chalk, Tadashi Nakamura
Producer: Tadashi Nakamura, Eurie Chung
Executive Producer: Spencer Nakasako, Diane Quon, Carrie Lozano, Lois Vossen, Donald Young
Director of Photography: Tadashi Nakamura, Lou Nakasako, Jess X Snow, Justyn Ah Chong, ‘Āina Paikai, Evan Kodani, Akira Boch, Quyên Nguyen-Le
Editor: Victoria Chalk
Sound Designer: Jon Oh
Music: Miles Senzaki