You can watch my earlier films (Strawberry Fields) and (History and Memory) on the Criterion Channel https://www.criterionchannel.com/my-sight-is-lined-with-visions-1990s-asian-american-film-video/season:1/videos/strawberry-fields
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    Rea Tajiri is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist 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.
    Her 2018 multisite installation WATARIDORI- was a collage across time and space, that activates real and speculative histories of the Japanese Americans who arrived in Philadelphia from US concentration camps during World War II. LORDVILLE her film from 2014 reins in stories of the everyday — powerful floods, ancestral secrets and colonial violence — to probe the material and immaterial traces of a town’s history. Her current feature documentary, WISDOM GONE WILD, explores a person-centered approach to caregiving during her sixteen year journey as a care partner to her mother who lived with dementia.
    Tajiri's work has been included in several Whitney Biennials, and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. She won the International Documentary Distinguished Achievement Award for her film History and Memory and her feature film Strawberry Fields won the Grand Prix at the Fukuoka Asian International Film Festival. Other festivals where she has screened her work include the Venice Film Festival, Film Festival Rotterdam, Seattle International Film Festival, and the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. Her film History and Memory screened on PBS national broadcast and has travelled to over 250 venues around the world.
    Tajiri has been awarded several fellowships including the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the Leeway Transformation Award, and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Previously, she was also awarded fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the NEA Visual Arts Fellowship.
    Tajiri is a Sansei who grew up in Rogers Park, Chicago and Van Nuys, California. She graduated with her MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts. Tajiri teaches documentary filmmaking and is an Associate Professor in the Film Media Arts Department at Temple University.
    Unstoppable, Competition
    Wisdom Gone Wild
    Slamdance
    Park City Utah
    2023
    Distinguished Achievement Award
    History and Memory: for Akiko and Takashige
    International Documentary Association
    Los Angeles
    2022
    Special Jury Award: New Visions Category
    History and Memory: for Akiko and Takashige
    San Francisco International Film Festival
    San Francisco
    2022
    International Competition
    Wisdom Gone Wild
    IDFA (International Documentary Film Fest Amsterdam)
    Amsterdam
    2022
    WINNER: Audience Choice, Documentary; WINNER Best Documentary Feature, Jury Award
    Wisdom Gone Wild
    Philadelphia Asian Film Festival
    Philadelphia
    2022
    American Lives Section
    Wisdom Gone Wild
    DOC NYC
    New York
    2022
    WINNER Grand Jury Prize
    Wisdom Gone Wild
    San Diego Asian Film Festival
    San Diego
    2022
    WINNER Audience Award, WINNER Jury Award, Honorable MentionBest Feature Documentary/ Honorable Mention, Best Feature Documentary
    Wisdom Gone Wild
    World Premiere, Blackstar Film Festival
    Philadelphia
    2022
    Grand Prix Nomination, Documentary
    LORDVILLE
    Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
    Los Angeles, CA
    2014
    Documentary Competition
    LORDVILLE
    CAAMFest 2014
    San Francisco, CA
    2014
    Grand Prix
    Strawberry Fields
    Fukuoka International Film Festival
    Fukuoka
    1998
    College
    California Institute of the Arts
    Post-Studio Art
    19771982
    Ethnicity
    Japanese American
    You can watch my earlier films (Strawberry Fields) and (History and Memory) on the Criterion Channel https://www.criterionchannel.com/my-sight-is-lined-with-visions-1990s-asian-american-film-video/season:1/videos/strawberry-fields
    Contact
    Legal Representative
    Focus Media Law, Justine Jacob
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