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Lina Hoshino - Producer/Director/Editor
Lina Hoshino is a filmmaker and new media designer whose films, including the award winning Story of Margo, In God's House: Asian American Lesbian and Gay Families in the Church and Caught in Between: What to Call Home in Times of War have screened in Finland, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan, and beyond. As a co-founder of IEEHA (Institute for Equity, Ecology, Humor and Art) and Tactile Pictures, Lina has led creative and design efforts for many community organizations, including: the Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action, the National Japanese American Historical Society, Asian Improv, and the Japanese Women's Active Museum for War and Peace. Currently, she serves on the board of Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action and Sonoma County Chapter of Japanese American Citizens League. From time to time, she teaches workshops at Center for Digital Storytelling. A self-described JABC (Japanese American Born Chinese from Taiwan), Lina grew up living in the U.S., Japan, and France. She studied painting and sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University. After thirteen years of living in San Francisco, she now lives in Sonoma County with her partner, chickens and cats.
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Derek Chung - Associate Producer
Derek is on the board of IEEHA, a non-profit that develops digital media for education on a range of social justice and environmental issues. Through a donor-advised fund at the San Francisco Foundation, he recommends grants to organizations working on Asian-American issues and social justice. Before Tactile, he worked as a software engineer on Oracle Graphics, a visual application tool for Oracle Corporation. He has also studied and practiced design, interaction and art for the last ten years, and has exhibited work at APAture 2002. Derek holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Applied Mathematics and Computer Engineering.
Kenji Liu - Associate Producer/Editor/Archive Research
Kenji Liu is a doctoral student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. A lifelong visual and performance artist, he is a graphic designer, spoken word artist and DJ. He teaches multicultural alliance-building using Theatre of the Oppressed, and has developed and lead anti-oppression workshops throughout the US. Kenji Liu is also an active member of ChinJurnWorPing (CJWP), a grassroots group of activists of Taiwanese, Chinese and Hong Kong heritage working for peace and justice based in the SF Bay Area. He studied graphic design at the University of Arts in Philadelphia.
Nobuhisa Sakamoto - Editor
Nobuhisa Sakamoto has worked on a number of video productions as editor and camera operator. The most recent productions include "Gold Greed and Genocide" directed by Pratap Chatterjee.
Translation - Minae Tanigawa
Minae Tanigawa has been living in the United States since 1996. She teaches Japanese home cooking classes at Nobiru Kai, a Japanese new comer's services in San Francisco.
Sound Engineer - Eli Crews
Music Consultant - Hiroshi Shimizu
Archival Image Research - Kenji Liu
Music Taiko Music
Melodie Takata
Kallan Nishimoto
Jimmy Biala”Dream Letter to Tim”
by Egghatcher
”Fallen from Sky #2”
by Robert Horton
& Henry Kuntz“Remembrance” &
“Snatched Away"Taiyo Takeda Ebato “Yashi no mi”
Lyric: Touson Shimazaki
Music: Ohnaka Toraji
Singer and Accompanist:
Kaori Nakano
“Don't Fence Me In“
Bing & the Andrews Sisters
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