62 Years and 6500 Miles Between; What We Never Forget For Peace Here

62 Years and 6500 Miles Between (2005): Amidst the political upheavals of a nation and the world, the filmmaker navigates cultural, geographical and linguistic distances in search of wisdom and hope from her 100 year-old Taiwanese activist grandmother (Ama).

What We Never Forget For Peace Here Now (2024) is a personal peace memorial video exploring how we forget and remember witnesses of war. I think about who are my survivors and witnesses of war, and the deep impressions they’ve given me, becoming a part of me.

Awards and nominations:

62 Years and 6500 Miles Between (2005):

Women Make Waves Int’l Film Festival & Tour 2023 and 2005 /

Taiwan Documentary Film Festival in Thailand 2021 /

Docufest Kosovo 2018 /

Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association 2017 /

U. of London SOAS 2014 /

DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival 2008 /

Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2006 /

Taiwan Int’l Ethnographic Film Festival & Tour (Opening showcase) 2005 /

Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema 2005 /

Women Make Waves Festival & Tour 2005 /

New York Int’l Asian American Film Festival & Tour 2005 /

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2005 /

Chicago Asian American Showcase 2005 /

San Francisco Int’l Asian American Film Festival 2005 /

National Taiwan Public TV Broadcast 2005-2008

What We Never Forget For Peace Here Now (2024):

United Nations Association Film Festival

Anita Chang is an artist scholar who works with various media forms, including film, digital video, photography, installation and the web. Her award-winning films screen and broadcast internationally, and have been presented at the Whitney Museum, Walker Arts Center, and the National Museum of Women. She is the author of Third Digital Documentary: A Theory and Practice of Transmedia Arts Activism, Critical Design and Ethics, and has published in Pacific Arts, American Quarterly, Verge, positions, Concentric and Taiwan Journal of Indigenous Studies. She is associate professor of communication at Cal State East Bay.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Clarion Performing Arts Center, 2 Waverly Place, San Francisco, United States