Filmmaker Rachel Michiko Whitney Examines The Struggles of Asian American Actors Through Personal Family History & World War II in ‘Yonsei’

Filmmaker Rachel Michiko Whitney Examines The Struggles of Asian American Actors Through Personal Family History & World War II in ‘Yonsei’

After eight long years of hard work on her directorial debut, everything is coming up Rachel Michiko Whitney. The journey of documenting and crafting her family’s Japanese and Japanese American legacy has come full-circle at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Whitney tells Deadline. In her first attendance at the festival, she starred alongside George Takei […]