UCR Arts is hosting a screening of Tadashi Nakamura’s documentary, THIRD ACT, at 7 p.m. May 8, 2026., at the Barbara and Art Culver Cinema in downtown Riverside.
Admission is free. For tickets, click here.
The program is presented as part of UCR ARTS’ AAPI Film Series supported by the Voy and Fay Wong Family Endowment. (The natives of Gom Benn Village in China operated the Chungking Restaurant in Riverside for many years)
The screening will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura.
His INDEPENDENT LENS documentary, THIRD ACT, pays tribute to his filmmaker father, Robert A. Nakamura. When Robert was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, Tadashi captured this bittersweet account of his father’s revolutionary life.
The film explores the legacy of a man who was a child survivor of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans, a successful photographer who gave it up to tell his own story, an activist at the dawn of a social movement — and a father whose struggles have won his son freedoms that eluded Japanese Americans of his generation.
THIRD ACT will premiere on television on Mon., May 25 at 10 p.m. on PBS SoCal and Sat., May 30 at 11:30 p.m. on PBS SoCal Plus. Following the broadcasts, the documentary will be available to stream on the free PBS App and at pbssocal.org/AAPI.
