TEAM

TADASHI NAKAMURA (DIRECTOR/PRODUCER)

Tadashi  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 NOBUKO MIYAMOTO: A SONG IN MOVEMENT (2024), MELE MURALS (2016), Gotham Independent Film Award-winning JAKE SHIMABUKURO: LIFE ON FOUR STRINGS (2013), A SONG FOR OURSELVES 009), and PILGRIMAGE (2006). He is currently working on THIRD ACT, about his pioneering filmmaker father, Robert A. Nakamura, and his current battle with Parkinson’s Disease. Tadashi has an M.A. in Social Documentation from UC Santa Cruz anB.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA. He made the DOC NYC ‘40 Under 40’ list in 2019 and was a 2020-2022 Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellows and a 2022-2023 Sundance Asian American Fellow. He is currently a mentor for the 2024 CAAM Fellowship and recipient of the 2024 Rockwood Documentary Leaders Fellowship.

EURIE CHUNG (PRODUCER)

Eurie is a documentary producer focused on elevating Asian American stories. Leading Flash Cuts with Walt Louie, she has supported filmmakers for nearly 20 years in all areas of production and post. Her work includes ASIAN AMERICANS, a five-part PBS docuseries (2020 Peabody Award), PLAGUE AT THE GOLDEN GATE (American Experience, 2023), the digital series PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF ASIAN AMERICA (2020), MELE MURALS (2016), and recently directed the documentary short I CAN’T KEEP QUIET. She is a 2024 Sundance Producers Lab fellow.

VICTORIA CHALK (EDITOR)

Victoria Chalk, ACE is a European-Asian film editor with over 15 years of post-production experience. Her recent work includes 2 episodes of the Peabody-winning PBS documentary series  ASIAN AMERICANS and A DECENT HOME by Sara Terry for which she won the 2022 Karen Schmeer Excellence Award in Documentary Editing. Victoria is a DOCNY 2020 40 under 40 honoree, the 2019 Karen Schmeer Editing Fellow and runs Across The Cut, an intersectional edit roster, along with 3 fellow editors.

DIANE QUON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

Diane Quon is an Academy Award-nominated producer who worked as a marketing executive at NBC and Paramount Pictures in LA before moving back to her hometown of Chicago. Diane has produced many documentaries including: Oscar and Emmy nominated, Peabody and Sundance award-winning film, MINDING THE GAP (Hulu, POV); Emmy-nominated FINDING YINGYING (MTVDocs); Emmy-nominated WUHAN WUHAN (POV); 2022 Oscar-shortlisted BAD AXE (IFC FILMS); BREAKING THE NEWS (Tribeca 2023, Indie Lens) and AKA MR CHOW (Telluride 2023, HBO). She is developing a fiction film based on a New York Times bestseller. Diane is an AMPAS and PGA member, a recipient of the Cinereach Producer Award, and is a Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and Film Independent Fellow.

SPENCER  NAKASAKO (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) 

Spencer  has over three decades of experience as an independent filmmaker. He won a National Emmy Award for A.K.A. DON BONUS, the video diary of a Cambodian refugee teenager that aired on the PBS series P.O.V. and screened at the Berlin International Film Festival. KELLY LOVES TONY, a video diary about a Iu Mien refugee teenage couple growing up too fast in Oakland, California, also aired on P.O.V. His third film in his trilogy about Southeast Asian youth, REFUGEE, aired on the PBS series Independent Lens, and garnered major awards at the Hawaii International Film Festival and Hamptons Film Festival. He also wrote the screenplay and co-directed a feature film in Hong Kong, LIFE IS CHEAP…BUT TOILET PAPER IS EXPENSIVE with Wayne Wang.is a producer of independent films, television and digital media based in New York City.