Dr. Erika Lee, Producer Renee Tajima-Peña, and TPT Community Impact Manager Marlina Gonzalez will engage in conversation about the history of Asian America as well as the making of the PBS series Asian Americans. Dr. Lee served as an advisor to the five-part PBS documentary. Producer Tajima-Peña will share her insights into the shaping of this documentary.

The conversation will reflect on the crucial role of historical documentaries in re-shaping, re-forming and re-informing our understanding of Asian American history and marginalized aspects of American history.

This event will feature sneak previews of Asian Americans, excerpts from Tajima Peña’s documentaries, brief visual history of Asian American Renaissance (AAR), Minnesota’s premier Asian American arts and culture organization which served as a catalyst in the 90’s for the rise of Asian American arts and cultural organizations including Theater MU and Pangea World Theater.

Asian Americans premiers on TPT and PBS nationwide on May 11 & 12, 2020.

For more information about the panelists please check out the event site: https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/dqo9u

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Major funding for Asian Americans is provided by Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB); Wallace H. Coulter Foundation; Public Broadcasting Service (PBS); Ford Foundation/JustFilms; National Endowment for the Humanities; The Freeman Foundation; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Kay Family Foundation; Long Family Foundation; Spring Wang; and California Humanities.