Renee Tajima-Peña Movies

In the face of AAPI violence, an intergenerational coalition of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, People of Color organizers come together to...

This film recounts the murder of Vincent Chin, an automotive engineer mistaken as Japanese who was slain by an assembly line worker who blamed him...

A poet from Haiti flees to America after being imprisoned in his native country. Recovering from the experience, he begins to examine his past. One...

America Undercover goes to the Madison Hotel in the skid-row section of downtown Los Angeles and talks to some of the desperate people living there....

Renee Tajima-Peña takes to the road to investigate questions about Asian-American identity.

When ARMANDO and CARLOS PENA set off to carry their mother's ashes back to South Texas and reunite with their brothers, the road reveals more than...

The New Americans follows a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new...

They came to have their babies. They went home sterilized. "No Mas Bebés" is the story of Mexican immigrant mothers who were pushed into...

A meditation on skateboarding, civil liberties and memory. Inspired by the essay by Martin Wong, "Return to Manzanar", based on a trip he took with...

When the filmmaker becomes a first time uncle he quickly realizes that he never wants to be a dad. He decides to write a letter to his baby niece,...