WRITER, DIRECTOR, AND PRODUCER

Celine Parreñas Shimizu, film scholar and filmmaker, is Dean of the Division of the Arts and Distinguished Professor of Film and Media at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She wrote The Proximity of Other Skins (2020), Straitjacket Sexualities (2012), and The Hypersexuality of Race (2007) and co-edited The Feminist Porn Book (2013) and The Unwatchability of Whiteness (2018). Her new book The Movies of Racial Childhoods: Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian / America, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her latest feature film The Celine Archive (2020) won several festival awards and is distributed by Women Make Movies. She received her Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, her M.F.A. in Film Directing and Production from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and her B.A. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. For more information, go to celineshimizu.com.

PRODUCER

Dan Shimizu is an electrical engineer and Chief Architect of the graphics chips for some of the world’s leading video game hardware systems. He is currently a video game designer for independent games. He is the producer for Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s The Celine Archive (2020) and 80 Years Later (2022) and along with Celine and Bayan Shimizu, the principal for the Lakas Shimizu Philanthropy Fund.

PRODUCER AND WRITER

J. Reid Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Comparative literature at Haverford College. He is the author of Stain Removal: Ethics and Race (Oxford, 2016) as well as several essays in the areas of race, ethics, cinema, and social criticism in publications such as Critical Inquiry, Diacritics, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. His current project is on theories of inheritance.

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Daniel Chein is an independent filmmaker whose work explores transculturalism and expressions of identity in the performative. His short film ABOUT A HOME (co-directed with Elizabeth Lo) had its world premiere at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival. His short film BASHA MAN premiered at CAAMFest2017, where it won the AT&T Film Award. Daniel was a 2019 Flaherty Seminar Fellow, and his work has received support from ITVS, the Sundance Institute, the Princess Grace Foundation, BAVC, the Points North Institute, SFFILM, UnionDocs and the Berkeley Film Foundation. As a lecturer, Daniel has taught courses on cinematography, editing, and documentary filmmaking. He received a BA in Anthropology and an MFA in Cinema from San Francisco State University.

EDITOR

Eben Portnoy is a filmmaker and musician based in Los Angeles, CA and Wellfleet, MA. He grew up on a working farm in rural Massachusetts and spent his twenties producing community theater and touring internationally in experimental pop bands. He graduated with an MFA in Directing from UCLA in 2014. His short films have found support from the Sloan Science Foundation, the Mary Pickford Foundation, and Google Creative Collective and his music video work has been featured on OZY, Stereogum, and The Creators Project. As a documentary editor he has worked with filmmakers including Renee Tajima-Peña and Celine Parreñas Shimizu. He is currently co-directing two feature documentaries, Kaksori! and In the Water of Lethe, and is the cinematographer for Nordic Stars, Morning Calm (Sant & Usant, Norway).

SOUND DESIGN, MIX AND RERECORDING

Rosa Sungjoo Park is a sound artist whose research interest is centered on the study of psychoacoustics, computer music, digital/mixed media, sonification, and the physicality of sound. Park explores various aural materials and their sonic characteristics, seeking unusual ways of seeing and hearing that unlock new experiences. Park’s practice and performance are deeply rooted in her cultural identities, memories, and religion, and she has produced a large number of works that deal with Korean traditional rituals, acoustic memories, the nature of life and death, the potential interactions between sounds in the environment.

COMPOSER

Composer and musician Theo Gonzalves co-founded the artist-run recording label, Jeepney Dash Records; played keyboards for Bobby Banduria; and toured extensively as the musical director for the theater troupe, tongue in A mood. Theo's musical work has been featured at concerts such as the Asian American Jazz Festival and performances at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. He has also written, produced, and performed several scores for independent films. Theo has produced albums of spoken word, poetry, and music for artists such as Al Robles, Eileen Tabios, and Joey Ayala. His latest is an anthology of kulintang music for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings titled Kulintang Kultura.