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Robert A. Nakamura, the Glossary

Robert Akira Nakamura (born July 5, 1936, Venice, California) is a filmmaker and teacher, sometimes referred to as "the Godfather of Asian American media." In 1970 he cofounded Visual Communications (VC) the oldest community-based Asian Pacific American media arts organization in the United States.^[1]

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American film directors of Japanese descent

Academy Film Archive

The Academy Film Archive is part of the Academy Foundation, established in 1944 with the purpose of organizing and overseeing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' educational and cultural activities, including the preservation of motion picture history.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), often pronounced; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.

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ArtCenter College of Design

ArtCenter College of Design is a private art university in Pasadena, California.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Asian Pacific Americans

Asian/Pacific American (APA) or Asian/Pacific Islander (API) or Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) or Asian American and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) is a term sometimes used in the United States when including both Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Internment of Japanese Americans

During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country.

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Issei

are Japanese immigrants to countries in North America and South America.

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Japanese American National Museum

The is located in Los Angeles, California, and dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans.

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Japanese Americans

are Americans of Japanese ancestry.

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Karen L. Ishizuka

Karen L. Ishizuka is an independent writer, curator, and documentary producer.

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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California.

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Nisei

is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the ethnically Japanese children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants (who are called Issei).

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Photojournalism

Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story.

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Tadashi Nakamura (filmmaker)

Tadashi "Tad" Nakamura (born c. 1980) is an American documentary filmmaker. Robert A. Nakamura and Tadashi Nakamura (filmmaker) are American film directors of Japanese descent.

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Tōyō Miyatake

Tōyō Miyatake (宮武東洋, Miyatake Tōyō; 1895–1979) was a Japanese American photographer, best known for his photographs documenting the Japanese American people and the Japanese American internment at Manzanar during World War II. Robert A. Nakamura and Tōyō Miyatake are Japanese-American internees.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Nakamura

Also known as Robert Nakamura.