Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement directed by Quyen Nguyen-Le and Tadashi Nakamura will open the Asian American International Film Festival which will take place from August 1 – 11, 2024 in New York, USA.

Opening Night
August 1, 2024 | Thursday | Asia Society (725 Park Ave. New York) | 7:00 pm

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement by Quyen Nguyen-Le, Tadashi Nakamura – USA | 2024 – 60 minutes | East Coast Premiere
After decades of groundbreaking cultural work that unites communities and sets the bar for Asian American storytelling, Miyamoto reflects on a life that has bridged coasts, industries, families, and history.

Featuring rare archival footage, NOBUKO MIYAMOTO: A SONG IN MOVEMENT is a story of a changing community told through the singular life of one of its most beloved storytellers.

This film is Co-Presented with Asia Society

About the Directors:
Tadashi Nakamura is an Emmy-award-winning filmmaker and the Director of the Watase Media Arts Center, a production company of the Japanese American National Museum. Tadashi was named CNN’s “Young People Who Rock” for being the youngest filmmaker at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Now with over 20 years of filmmaking experience, his films include MELE MURALS (2016), JAKE SHIMABUKURO: LIFE ON FOUR STRINGS (2013), A SONG FOR OURSELVES (2009), and PILGRIMAGE (2006). He is currently working on THIRD ACT, about his pioneering filmmaker father, Robert A. Nakamura.

Quyên Nguyen-Le (they/them) is a daytime emmy nominated queer vietnamese filmmaker born to refugee parents where Chumash and Tongva lands meet (San Fernando Valley, Los Ángeles). Quyên’s work focuses on the ways histories are deeply felt in the quotidian everyday. Their short documentary, The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard (2019) opened the 20th San Diego Asian Film Festival. Quyên was Associate Producer for Sundance award winning films Free Chol Soo Lee and The Accidental Getaway Driver. They hold B.A. degrees from USC in Santiago and a M.A. in Visual Studies from UC Irvine.

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