Farmers Insurance Documentary Motion Picture Brings Home Best Director Award: Across The Waves
Randy Rice, Farmers Insurance Education Programs National Manager, and Dan Winter, Farmers Director of Audio-Visual and Special Projects, received the Best Director Award for his or her documentary motion picture Across the Waves, Voices from the Asian-Pacific Yank Community. The honor was offered by the Chashama Film Festival in New York City. This year, the competition received additional than 2,000 films from filmmakers in thirty two countries. The Best Director Award class includes options, documentaries, animation, short and full-length films.
Across the Waves archives the emotional journeys of Pacific-Asian immigrants who fled their homelands to seek the American dream. Featured within the film are a number of the foremost influential figures within the Asian-Pacific American community: Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, United States Congressman Mike Honda, NASA Space Shuttle astronaut Sunita Williams and well-known civil rights activist Angela Oh.
Across the Waves is one among several academic DVD programs that Farmers agents provide to colleges free. Besides showing community leadership, agents are ready to use the programs to enlarge relationships with schools and promote the Farmers trade name.
The Best Director Award is Across the Waves’ third film festival award this year. The documentary has additionally won the Platinum Remi at the Worldfest Film Festival in Houston in April and also the Grand Competition Award at the Berkeley Film Competition last month in Berkeley, Calif.
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