The director.
The goals.
Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Dean of the Arts and Distinguished Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Beyond seeking the widest distribution to deploy the power of cinema to undo historical harm, amplify unheard perspectives, and create new narratives, the film provides field training for students in the Arts. Trained by professionals, the film enables career-making opportunities for students.
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Personal Statement
I am a filmmaker and scholar of race, sexuality and representations, particularly of global Asian/ American popular culture and the representations of people of color in western cinema.
When I was 20 years old, I wrote an epic poem which won the Eisner, the highest prize in creative art, for poetry, at UC Berkeley. The poem inventoried my sexual herstory at the time. This film is not autobiographical, it is personal in the sense of my own artfully documented experience joining my training and expertise as an ethnographer, historian and maker of images for the past 30 years.