# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Third Act Film Screening
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 05 Sep, 2026 at 02:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the Godfather of Asian American media,” but filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura calls him Dad.  What begins as a documentary about his father’s career takes a turn with a Parkinson’s Disease diagnosis, and evolves into an exploration on art, activism, grief, and fatherhood. 

Third Act Film Screening with Director Tadashi Nakamura
Saturday, Sept 5, 2pm
Clinton Street Theater
2522 SE Clinton St
Portland, OR 97202

As the filmmaking son of a filmmaking legend, Tad uses the lessons his dad taught him to decipher the legacy of an aging man who was a child survivor of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans, a successful photographer who gave it up to tell his own story, an activist at the dawn of a social movement—and a father whose struggles have won his son freedoms that eluded Japanese Americans of his generation. As Parkinson’s Disease clouds his memory, Tad sets out to retrieve his story—and in the process discovers his own. The two have made films together, with Robert always by Tad’s side. THIRD ACT is the last.

After the film, there will be an audience conversation with director Tadashi Nakamura.

TADASHI NAKAMURA (DIRECTOR/PRODUCER) Tadashi Nakamura is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker and the Director of the Watase Media Arts Center, a production company of the Japanese American National Museum. Tadashi was named CNN’s “Young People Who Rock” for being the youngest filmmaker at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. In 2025 he returned to Sundance to premiere his latest film THIRD ACT (2025) about his pioneering filmmaker father, Robert A. Nakamura. With over 20 years of filmmaking experience, his films include NOBUKO MIYAMOTO: A SONG IN MOVEMENT (2024), BENKYODO: THE LAST MANJU SHOP IN J-TOWN (2023), ATOMIC CAFE: THE NOSIEST CORNER IN J-TOWN (2020), MELE MURALS (2016), JAKE SHIMABUKURO: LIFE ON FOUR STRINGS (2013), A SONG FOR OURSELVES (2009), and PILGRIMAGE (2006).

Tadashi has an M.A. in Social Documentation from UC Santa Cruz and a B.A. in Asian American Studies from UCLA. He made the DOC NYC ‘40 Under 40’ list in 2019 and was a 2020 Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellow, a 2022 Sundance Asian American Fellow, and a 2024 Rockwood Documentary Leaders Fellow.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/portland/third-act-film-screening/200030600630348
- **Event Categories**: Entertainment, Art, Festivals, Theatre
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Portland
- **state**: OR
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Clinton Street Theater
- **lat**: 45.503164355071
- **long**: -122.63989806175
- **full address**: Clinton Street Theater, 2510 SE Clinton St, Portland, OR 97202-1239, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Third Act Film Screening being held?
  - **A:** Third Act Film Screening takes place on Sat, 05 Sep, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Sat, 05 Sep, 2026 at 02:00 pm at Clinton Street Theater, 2510 SE Clinton St, Portland, OR 97202-1239, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Third Act Film Screening?
  - **A:** Third Act Film Screening is organized by Japanese American Museum of Oregon.

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