J.T. Takagi
- Sound
Biography
J.T. Takagi is a third generation Japanese-American independent filmmaker who works as the Executive Director of Third World Newsreel, a media arts center in New York City. An award-winning filmmaker and sound recordist, Takagi’s directorial credits include The Women Outside, Community Plot, Homes Apart: Korea and Bittersweet Survival, the latter two made with Christine Choy. In addition to this, Takagi teaches at the City College of New York and the School of Visual Arts and works with several Asian American community groups.
Known for
Filmography
- Resistance at Tule Lake · Consulting Producer
- Banished · Sound
- The Rise & Fall of Penn Station · Sound Recordist
- The Chinatown Files · Sound Recordist
- The Women Outside · Director
- It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School · Sound
- Cousin Bobby · Sound Mixer
- Stormé: Lady of the Jewel Box · Sound
- Homes Apart: Korea · Director, Sound
- Azul · Sound
- POV · Director
- Working Girls · Sound Recordist
- Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper · Sound
- Namibia: Independence Now! · Sound
- Community Plot · Producer, Director
- Mississippi Triangle · Sound, Assistant Camera
- Fei Tien: Goddess in Flight · Sound
- Bittersweet Survival: Southeast Asian Refugees in America · Director, Sound
- Tryptich · Sound
- The #7 Train: An Immigrant Journey · Director