Rea Tajiri
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.
Awarded Grants
2020
Leeway Transformation Award (LTA)
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Overview
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.
