Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement (film)

Documentary profile of performing artist and activist Nobuko Miyamoto tracing her early career as a precocious dancer and singer on Broadway and in Hollywood followed by a political awakening that saw her and her songwriting partner Chris Iijima become the musical voice of the Asian American Movement. The film traces her life as a single mother in Los Angeles, where she teaches dance out of the Senshin Buddhist Temple before forming the Asian American performing arts company Great Leap. The film also includes a brief segment of Miyamoto's memories of her and her family's wartime incarceration at the Santa Anita Assembly Center .

Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement was a co-production of the Watase Media Arts Center of the Japanese American National Museum and PBS SoCal, with funding coming from grants by the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program , the Center for Asian American Media, the Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation, PBS SoCal Artbound Funding, the Peng Zhao and Cherry Chen AAPI Voices Fund, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The world premiere took place on May 4, 2024, in Los Angeles as part of the VC Film Fest. It debuted as part of the "Artbound" series of PBSSoCal on November 1, 2024. ^[1]

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