THIRD ACT

(World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival, January 26, 2025) | Documentary Feature

Generations of artists call Robert A. Nakamura “The Godfather of Asian American film,” but his son, Tad, calls him Dad. 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 most likely the last.

Lailanie is credited as associate producer and will provide further support through impact, distribution, and marketing of this project.

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World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2025

Links:

Official Film Website: thirdactfilm.com | Instagram @thirdactfilm

Filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura: tadashinakamura.com

Book a screening via The Film Collaborative: thefilmcollaborative.org/films/thirdact

Read Abby Sun’s ITVS article from 2019.