ACTION! CINEMA AS CONNECTION WORKSHOP: TANI IKEDA – SURVIVOR LOVE LETTER
Saturday, January 19 and Sunday, January 20: 1PM – 5 PM
This two-day workshop is FREE; participants must be able to attend BOTH sessions. Space is limited with priority to women of color, LGBTQ populations, and low-income individuals ages 19-35. Call or email EPFC for more details.
This free workshop is part of ACTION! Cinema as Connection, a series curated and facilitated by Penelope Uribe-Abee presenting documentary films and workshops by female filmmakers of color. ACTION! is made possible with the support of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In this two day workshop at the Echo Park Film Center, survivors of sexual assault and their loved ones are invited to write a Survivor Love Letter that celebrates their lives. The workshop will explore different modes of expression through dialogue, writing and video. It will conclude with publicly wheat pasting love letters to survivors around the city and sharing our love letters with the world. Anyone may leave the workshop at any time if they are feeling triggered, and the workshop leader (Tani Ikeda) has received sensitivity training.
Tani Ikeda is an Emmy winning director who creates narratives, documentaries, music videos, and commercial films. She was recently selected as one of Sundance’s 2018 intensive screenwriting lab’s fellows and was also named one of Film Independent’s 33 Emerging Filmmakers as a Project: Involve Directors Fellow. Ikeda was an Executive Producer and Director on the Blackpills Documentary TV Series “Resist” with Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors about the fight against LA County’s 3.5 billion dollar jail plan. Ikeda has directed films in China, Uganda, India, and the United States. Her work has been recognized in The Hollywood Reporter, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan magazine and has screened internationally at festivals around the world including the Sundance Film Festival.
At the age of 21, Tani Ikeda co-founded imMEDIAte Justice, a nonprofit that fosters the talents of young women artists working in virtual reality. She is the current executive director of imMEDIAte Justice and was named one of the “25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World,” by the Utne Reader. ImMEDIAte Justice has received national attention on CNN, NBC, and Univision. Ikeda tours the country speaking at universities and national conferences about storytelling as a tool for social justice.
Tani holds a Bachelors Degree in Film Production from the University of Southern California and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Bookings are closed for this event.