C3: Fireside Chat with Ren Hanami

Moderated by Andrew Grace, SAG-AFTRA APAM Committee Member

This candid fireside chat with Ren Hanami will focus on the many dimensions of her career: how she’s navigated acting, writing, filmmaking, and voiceover across decades in the industry, and how her passion for diversity gave rise to founding the AFTRA Asian Pacific Media Task Force in 2003. The conversation may explore and touch on auditioning, what performers and filmmakers should know about the casting process, the value of union membership, and what it means to be part of SAG-AFTRA’s APAM Committee as both an advocate and a trailblazer for AANHPI representation on screen and beyond.

REN HANAMI
Ren Hanami is an award-winning actress, writer, filmmaker, and proud member of SAG and AFTRA since 1981. Hanámi has been busy filming short films, and voicing characters in games, animation, and dubbing foreign projects. Her performance as Lola in the short film “Lola” has garnered her two Best Supporting Actress awards, most recently for the FILMAM CREATIVE Film Festival. In May she continues developing a character in a new stage production by Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen, (Agents of Shield), and a team of multi-talented performers.

Hanámi’s passion for diversity led to starting the AFTRA Asian Pacific Media (APAM) Task Force in 2003. She has been the Chair of the SAG-AFTRA APAM Committee since the unions merged in 2012. Hanámi is a longtime advocate for LAAPFF, and honored to be able to share the value of SAG-AFTRA to filmmakers and performers. She is also a children’s book author working on her debut young adult novel. Hanámi earned a B.A. in Theater and Certificate in Feature Film Writing from UCLA. renworldinc.com