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Spotlight on Loni Ding
DIRECTOR: Loni Ding
USA English 
 This inaugural Spotlight program illuminates the visionary work and creative process of Bay Area filmmaker, teacher and advocate Loni Ding. A probing, on-stage interview by Barbara Abrash (Center for Media, Culture and History, NYU) will provide a valuable opportunity for insight into the internationally recognized commitment and artistry of this trailblazing independent filmmaker. Selections from Ding's distinguished body of work (including the first public screening of a clip from the third part of Ancestors in the Americas) will illustrate the interview. Over her almost thirty years as a independent producer, Loni Ding's work has been broadcast on PBS in 14 national programs, and played to audiences on four continents. Her range is awesome; from 600 MILLENNIA: CHINA'S HISTORY UNEARTHED, a prime time special on the 1975 international tour of a Chinese archaeological collection; to BEAN SPROUTS, a five-part children's series on multicultural identity; to WILLIE LOBO: MANCHILD, a musical drama about a black Vietnam veteran; and two films, NISEI SOLDIER and THE COLOR OF HONOR, exploring the political and moral dilemmas faced by Japanese American soliders serving in World War II. Her productions have received multiple Emmy awards, screened at international film festivals and she has received numerous career awards. ANCESTORS IN THE AMERICAS is Loni Ding's masterwork and the first in-depth TV series to present the untold history and contemporary legacy of early Asian immigrants to the Americas, from the 1700s to the 1900s. It brings to life a largely unexplored past and invites a new understanding of American history. The broadcast premiere of the first two parts of ANCESTORS IN THE AMERICAS will be on public television in late March, 2001. "Loni Ding is that rare artist who entwines twin passions for social justice and the "true facts" of history in films that are works of hard-hitting revelation and lyrical beauty. Her style is marked by narrative strategies and a visual vocabulary that allows an interplay between the personal and the historical . . . in a career of nearly 30 years she has pioneered a poetics of history in powerful films that vividly recreate the past, reminding us that it is ever-present in our lives today." - Barbara Abrash
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