Leita Hagemann Luchetti
Independent documentary filmmaker Leita Hagemann Luchetti received her M.F.A. in Film and Video from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her work includes several independent productions for public television, including Poetry Breaks and JAPANESE AMERICAN WOMEN: A SENSE OF PLACE. (1/08)
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Japanese American Women A Sense of Place
A film by Leita Hagemann Luchetti, 1992, 28 min, Color
The stereotype of the polite, docile, exotic Asian woman is shattered in this documentary in which a dozen women speak about their experiences as part of the "model minority." JAPANESE AMERICAN WOMEN explores the ambivalent feelings the women have both towards Japan and the United States. The underlying theme is the burden of being different,…
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