Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and multi-media producer. Her films explore themes of immigration, race, ethnicity, gender, and social justice. She was series producer/showrunner of PBS’s Asian Americans, a ground-breaking 5-hour docuseries collaboration of Asian American filmmakers, scholars, community, and public media. Tajima-Peña’s films have screened at the Cannes Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, the Whitney Biennial, and venues around the world. She is Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA, where she is also the Director of the Center for EthnoCommunications and the holder of the Alumni and Friends of Japanese American Ancestry Endowed Chair.