JT Takagi

JT Takagi is an award-winning independent filmmaker, sound recordist, and the executive director of Third World Newsreel, a progressive alternative media center. Her own films are primarily on Asian/Asian American and immigrant issues, including Bittersweet Survival; Homes Apart: Korea; The Women Outside; and North Korea: Beyond the DMZ, which aired nationally on PBS. As a sound engineer, she has recorded numerous public television and theatrical documentaries that have earned Emmy and Cinema Audio Society awards, including Yance Ford’s Strong Island and Stanley Nelson’s Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. She teaches at The New School and City University of NY.