Renee Tajima-Peña

Renee Tajima-Peña

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Renee Tajima-Peña is an American academic and filmmaker whose work focuses on immigrant communities, race, gender and social justice

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Who Killed Vincent Chin? 1987 (5)

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 for the competition by the Japanese auto makers that were threatening his job. It then recounts how that murderer escaped justice in the court system. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, in association with the Museum of Chinese in America. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, with additional support provided by Todd Phillips.
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The Best Hotel on Skid Row 1990 (6.5)

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. It talks to a prostitute and heroin addict named Becky, a drug dealer and traveler names John, and an heavy drinking alcoholic named Jack Woodrow Wilson.
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My America... or Honk If You Love Buddha 1997

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