Our Communities, Our Neighbors Series
Bang the Drum: Taiko in Tacoma
Directed by Joanne Lisosky, this film is the latest in a series titled "Our Communities, Our Neighbors" produced by the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation with funding from Tacoma Creates. The film can be watched at this [...]
Culture Over Killing Fields: One Woman’s Journey
“Culture Over Killing Fields: One Woman’s Journey” is a short film by Tacoma filmmaker Joanne Lisosky that tells the story of how Tacoma educator Rady Oum survived the Cambodian genocide in the 1970s and lived to [...]
Executive Order 9066: All Persons of Japanese Ancestry
Funded in part by grants from Tacoma Creates, CRPF launched its new video series "Our Communities, Our Neighbors." The first video follows Merilee Tanbara, a third generation Japanese-American, as she writes a historical fiction novel that [...]
Horizon Identities: A UWT Experience
Horizon Identities: AAPI at UWT Directed by UWT alumnus Nuk Suwanchote and Minh Le UWT Alumnus and filmmaker Nuk Suwanchote revisited his alma mater to explore the growing community of Asia Pacific Island students, staff and [...]
Lyle Quasim: Show Up, Suit Up, and Engage!
Co-directed by Joanne Lisosky and Derek Nunn, this film is the latest in a series titled Our Communities, Our Neighbors, produced by the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation with funding from Tacoma Creates. Film Description: This film [...]
Our Communities, Our Neighbors – Preserving Tacoma’s Stories on Film
Written by Lila Wright; edited by Ben Everett. The Our Communities, Our Neighbors film series extends the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation’s (CRPF) reach through documentary storytelling, capturing the voices and experiences of Tacoma’s diverse communities and [...]
Tacoma Method: How the City of Destiny Reconciles Its Racist Past
In this film the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation turns the spotlight on itself and the 30-year project to “reconcile” with the history of the expulsion of Tacoma’s Chinese population in 1885 through the creation of the [...]
The Resting Place
THE RESTING PLACE DIRECTOR: Kate Hoyt, Hallie Harper, Tina A. Huynh The Resting Place tells the story of how the Vietnamese community in Tacoma came together to establish a shared cemetery to honor members who have passed. [...]