Third Act will World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2025

Third Act will world premiere at Sundance Film Festival (January 23 - February 1, 2025) on January 26, 2025 at The Ray Theatre. See the press release on Deadline here. Lailanie Gadia has been an Associate Producer on this project since 2019.

Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura calls him Dad. Robert’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease leads to an exploration of art, activism, grief, and fatherhood.

Sundance Film Festival programmer, Sudeep Sharma says, “Director Tadashi Nakamura was in many ways born into filmmaking and his father’s career, appearing as a crying baby being sent to a Japanese American concentration camp in Robert’s landmark film Hito Hata: Raise the Banner (1980). In Third Act, Tad tells the story of his father, his life and career, and the profound influence it has had on Tad’s sense of self, artistry, and citizenship. With Robert in the last stage of his life and Tad a father himself, Tad looks to the past and the future with a searching curiosity of what legacy means and how it can be lived. With a poignant relevancy to this moment in American history, Third Act is an intimate and emotional story of the Asian American experience in its political, historic, personal, and artistic fullness.”

To learn more about the Sundance film screening, visit here. To learn more about the film, visit the official website thirdactfilm.com. To book a screening or bring it to a festival near you via The Film Collaborative, visit here.

Branded Still from Third Act