A famous Japanese American dance duo must choose between their passion or their lives as World War II concentration camps begin to rise in the U.S.

Director Biography

Benjamin To is an award-winning writer, director, and founder of BAND WITH NO NAME Films. He hit the ground running right out of college when his AAPI profile documentary miniseries, Life Stories, was picked up and produced by NBC News. He has since continued to work in documentaries, scripted narratives, and even video games.

Director Statement

The bones of this story came to me when I was taking an Asian American History course in college. I was enthralled by the real-life accounts of these WWII-era dancers who were passing for another ethnicity, when in actuality they were of Japanese descent. They ended up fleeing in order to avoid incarceration, and their dance careers were unjustly never the same since that fateful decision. I’ve always fantasized what their final performance would have looked like…Their entire lives represented in a singular, storybook-esque dance sequence: from the beginning of their love affair up until the very moment when they lost everything in the war.

This is why I love art that holds a mirror up to society. I made this film because I believe in the social immediacy, emotionality, and timeliness of the story. I wanted to explore these characters’ internal turmoil and their external triumphs in a classically maximalist yet tenderly rendered way.

Thus, INFINITY! was born.