Ikeda.Tani

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Tani Ikeda

Ikeda.Tani
Cofounder/Executive Director
imMEDIAte Justice
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Tani Ikeda is an award-winning director who creates narratives, documentaries, music videos, and commercial films. She was recently selected as one of Film Independent’s 33 Emerging Filmmakers and her work has been screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Tani has a commitment to telling the untold stories of women. In 2009, she co-founded imMEDIAte Justice, an after school program in the LA Unified School District that teaches underserved girls filmmaking. She was named one of the “25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World,” by the Utne Reader and has spoken on CNN, NBC, Univision, and at universities around the country about her feminist filmmaking. Tani holds a Bachelors Degree in Film Production from the University of Southern California and currently resides in Los Angeles.


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