
Come see No No Girl and meet director, and filmmaker, Paul Goodman with actors Mika Dyo, Chris Tajima, and Kurt Kanazawa!
Film Synopsis: Eighty years ago, on the eve of war and incarceration, a Japanese American family buries a secret in their backyard garden. Three generations later, a clue is discovered – unearthing the trauma and truth of their historic past. See trailer here.
Director Paul Daisuke Goodman is a filmmaker and two-time cancer survivor. He began his career as a camera operator on the high seas for Discovery’s Whale Wars until his first cancer diagnosis at age 25. For the next six years, he would undergo treatments for his Leukemia that would achieve remission and then relapse and remission again. During that time, Goodman began writing and editing from his hospital room and would shoot films in his months as an outpatient. Today, Paul lives in Los Angeles with his fiance and manages his own production company, Eight East Productions, named for the wing of the hospital where he made his first films.
Date and time: Sun, March 5, 2023, 7:00 PM – 9:50 PM EST
(Reception from 6pm/Screening at 7pm)
Location: Landmark’s E Street Cinema, 555 11th Street Northwest Washington, DC 20000.
Admission to the panel discussion, film screening, and reception: $15
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