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Renee Tajima-Peña was born on 1958 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., is a filmmaker. Discover Renee Tajima-Peña's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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Occupation Documentary filmmaker, Professor
Age 65 years old
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Born 1958
Birthday 1958
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2013

In 2013, Tajima-Peña was appointed Professor of Asian American Studies and the Alumni and Friends of Japanese American Ancestry Endowed Chair at UCLA. She also directs the Center for EthnoCommunications at UCLA, housed in the Asian American Studies Center with a teaching component in the Asian American Studies Department. Prior to UCLA, she was Professor of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she launched the Graduate Program in Social Documentation.

2009

Her documentaries have been broadcast around the world, including BBC, CBC Canada, SBS Australia, Fujisankei, Tokyo Broadcasting System, VPRO Netherlands, ZDF Germany, ABC, Home Box Office, Oxygen, Lifetime Television, the Sundance Channel, and PBS. In 2009 she won a Fellow Award from United States Artists.

1987

Tajima-Peña’s film "Who Killed Vincent Chin" (1987), was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. Her other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the Alpert Award for Film/Video, the James Wong Howe “Jimmie” Award, the Justice in Action Award, and two International Documentary Association Achievement Awards (one shared), the Media Achievement Award from MANAA, the Steve Tatsukawa Memorial Award and the APEX Excellence in the Arts Award. She has twice earned Fellowships in Documentary Film from both the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Foundation on the Arts.

1970

Tajima-Peña began filmmaking out of a desire for activism and political expression. Growing up in the 1970s, she was heavily influenced by the Asian American movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and others. Tajima-Peña later turned her interest toward social change filmmaking.

1960

Her recent works include the ground-breaking PBS 5-part docuseries, Asian Americans that traces 170 years of Asian American history through the lens of race, immigration, culture and activism. Her award-winning documentaryNo Mas Bebés uncovers the coercive sterilization of Mexican-origin women at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center during the 1960s and 70s, and the landmark civil rights lawsuit challenging the practice, Madrigal v. Quilligan. It premiered at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival and was broadcast on the PBS documentary series Independent Lens. Tajima-Peña's transmedia curriculum project is Building History 3.0, an interactive exploration of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II using the online video game Minecraft.

1958

Renee Tajima-Peña (born 1958) is an American filmmaker whose work focuses on immigrant communities, race, gender and social justice. Her directing and producing credits include the documentaries Who Killed Vincent Chin?, No Más Bebés, My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha, Calavera Highway, Skate Manzanar, Labor Women and the 5-part docuseries Asian Americans.