Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement is a sweeping documentary that follows the life of 84-year-old artist-activist Nobuko Miyamoto and her work that changed Asian America forever. After decades of groundbreaking cultural work that unites communities and sets the bar for Asian American storytelling, Miyamoto reflects on a life that has bridged coasts, industries, families, and history. Featuring rare archival footage, Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement is a story of a changing community told through the singular life of one of its most beloved storytellers.

Director Bios

TADASHI NAKAMURA 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 Mele Murals (2016), Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings  (2013), A Song For Ourselves (2009), 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.

QUYÊN NGUYEN-LE (they/them) is a daytime emmy nominated queer vietnamese filmmaker born to refugee parents where Chumash and Tongva lands meet (San Fernando Valley, Los Ángeles). Quyên’s film work focuses on the ways histories are deeply felt in the quotidian everyday. Quyên’s work has been supported by Kartemquin Films, Points North Institute, Center for Asian American Media, the National Multicultural Alliance’s Producer Lab, Visual Communications, and the California Arts Council.