Projects

Photographer, Sound Recordist, Editor, Director. This travelogue shows the first day’s travel with four veterans to revisit French battlefields where their unit, the all Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT) fought during World War II. During this visit the four former soldiers in attendance were given a heroes welcome by the mayors and townspeople of the towns of Bruyeres and Biffontaine that their unit liberated in 1944.

Assistant Director, Cinematographer, Sound Recordist. Her Excellency is a work-in-progress multimedia documentary project about the rise of women who are heads of state around the world. Since the 1980 election of the world’s first woman president, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, there have been an unprecedented number of democratically elected women heads of state. Despite this increase, in the past 10 years the percentage of women presidents and prime ministers have hovered between 6 to 7% of the world’s leaders. Women are also grossly underrepresented, including at the parliamentary and legislative levels.Though specific to each country, this phenomenon of women being elected into the highest position of leadership certainly speaks to changes in the social and cultural conditions that enable women to pursue high-level politics and to voters who desire such an outcome. Her Excellency is produced and directed by Anita Chang.