Good Luck Soup
For filmmaker Matthew Hashiguchi, growing up half Japanese/half Italian in a white Irish-Catholic neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, was a difficult experience. In "Good Luck Soup," Hashiguchi sets out on a journey to discover how the rest of his multi-racial family made sense of their lives and their Japanese American heritage.
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72 minute feature
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World Premiere 2016 Cleveland International Film Festival
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Broadcast Premiere: PBS America ReFramed
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Funded by the Center for Asian American Media and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
American Dreaming
With no guarantees of employment or opportunity, undocumented immigrants strive to obtain a college degree in the state of Georgia, where they are barred from enrolling in its most selected colleges and universities.
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11 minute short
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2018 New Orleans Film Festival
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2018 Atlanta Film Festival
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2018 CAAM Fest
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2018 Mountainfilm Festival
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2018 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Grandma's New Year
A short VR documentary on a Japanese American grandmother’s annual Oshogatsu tradition, or Japanese New Year’s Day, which she has celebrated with her with her family for over 90 years.
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3 minute VR short
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2018 New Orleans Film Festival VR Experiences
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2017 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival
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2017 CAAMFest Selection, AT&T Special Presentation
People Aren't All Bad
In this short documentary, 88-year-old Yutaka Kobayashi shares his struggles as a Japanese American before and leading up to the World War II Japanese American Internment Camps. Surprisingly, it was during this dark period that he experienced compassion and kindness from where he least expected it, a gun tower guard from within the Topaz Internment Camp.
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4 minute short
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2014 Smithsonian Magazine In Motion Video Contest Finalist
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2013 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2013
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American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at 2013 Cannes Film Festival