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“He Will Do Anything For Me”: Tadashi Nakamura on Filming His Trail-Blazing Father Robert Nakamura in ‘Third Act’

In Third Act Tadashi Nakamura trains his lens on his father, Robert Nakamura, who is regarded as the “godfather of Asian American media.” Robert has played a key role as one of the first Japanese American filmmakers to represent the Japanese American experience through his films and images. Now in the third act of his life, he has decided to share his own. The documentary recently premiered at Sundance as part of the U.S. Documentary Competition. I spoke with Tadashi to understand how he went about shooting the film and if the process of filming Robert Nakamura was a veiled act of delaying grieving for his father.

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“A Dog Really Brings Out the Humanity in a Person”: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady on ’FOLKTALES’

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“Emotional Ping-Pong”: David Osit’s ‘Predators’ Moves Beyond True Crime Binaries

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“There’s Affection But Also Skepticism”: Charlie Shackleton Takes Apart True Crime in ‘Zodiac Killer Project’

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“Changing, Ebbing, Flowing”: Amber Fares’s ‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ Features Israeli Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi

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“Like a Knife to the Stomach”: Amy Berg on the Singer’s Relationships in ‘It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley’ 

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Winter 2024

No Other Land is both narratively explosive and achingly personal. In terms of craft, it’s one of the most impressive examples of verité scene-making in recent years—though its directors, a collective of four Israeli and Palestinian journalists, aren’t format purists in their story of how Israeli state legal machinations and individual soldiers force expulsions of Palestinian villagers in the West Bank. Mackenzie Lukenbill examines how the quartet of Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Billal, and Rachel Szor made the film their story in every mutual way possible. After No Other Land was selected for this issue’s cover feature, IDA’s board selected the film’s directors to receive the Courage Under Fire Award at the 40th IDA Documentary Awards. Articles featured in the print version will be published online from November 2024-February 2025.
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Immortal

Following the groundbreaking creation of an immortal heart cell in his lab, a world renowned stem cell researcher is accused of a murder-suicide. When his only daughter strives to clear his name by enlisting the help of a documentary filmmaker, the twisted path to the truth becomes personal.