Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker whose credits include Who Killed Vincent Chin?, My America…or Honk if You Love Buddha, Labor Women, The New Americans, and Calavera Highway. Her films have screened at Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and the Whitney Biennial. She co-founded the Graduate Program in Social Documentation at UC Santa Cruz and is now Director of the Center of EthnoCommunications at UCLA, where she is a professor and holds an endowed chair in Asian American Studies. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Alpert Award in the Arts, the USA Broad Fellowship, and a Peabody.