2025
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Documentary Lab

Third Act

Third Act is a deep dive into the life and work of pioneering photographer and filmmaker Robert A. Nakamura, made by his son and colleague Tadashi Nakamura. On its surface, the documentary is a biography that explores the elder filmmaker's public role as "the Godfather of Asian American film." But with his diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, the film's undercurrent poses a question at once personal and universal: how can a father and son say goodbye?

FILM TOPICS
Personal
Biographical
FILMMAKERS
Meet the filmmakers behind the film.
ABOUT THE FILM
Documentary Lab
REGIONAL FOCUS
United States
Pacific Region (U.S.)
DEMOGRAPHIC FOCUS
Asian Communities