 Renee Tajima-Peña
has become a chronicler of the American scene with
her award-winning films "Who Killed Vincent Chin?"
(PBS) and "MY AMERICA...or Honk if You Love Buddha."
Her other credits include the PBS series "The New
Americans" (Mexico story segment) and "My Journey
Home; Lab or Women," "The Last Beat Movie" (Sundance
Channel); "The Best Hotel on Skid Row" (Home Box
Office), "Jennifer’s in Jail" (Lifetime Television),
"Declarations: All Men Are Created Equal?" (PBS),
"What Americans Really Think of the Japanese" (Fujisankei,)
and "Yellow Tale Blues." She has been a collaborator
on two multi-media performances pieces. Tajima-Peña
was honored with the Alpert Award in the Arts in
2007. Her previous honors include an Academy Award
nomination for Best Feature Documentary, a Peabody
Award, a Dupont-Columbia Award, the James Wong Howe
“Jimmie” Award, the Justice in Action Award, and an
International Documentary Association Achievement
Award, the Media Achievement Award from MANAA, the
Steve Tatsukawa Memorial Award and the APEX
Excellence in the Arts Award. She has twice earned
Fellowships in Documentary Film from
both the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York
Foundation on the Arts. Her works have been
broadcast around the world and premiered at the
Cannes Film Festival, Hawaii International Film
Festival, London Film Festival, New Directors/New
Films, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International
Film Festival, and many other venues. Tajima-Peña
was formerly a film critic for The Village Voice, a
cultural commentator for National Public Radio, and
associate editor of The Independent Film & Video
Monthly. She is currently an Associate Professor in
the Social Documentation Program of the Community
Studies Department at the University of California,
Santa Cruz. |
Darrell
Evans hit 414 home runs in his 21-year Major League Baseball
career with the Atlanta Braves (‘69-‘76,
’89), San Francisco Giants (’76-’83) and Detroit Tigers (’84-’88).
His breakthrough year was 1973, his first of two All-Star seasons.
He hit 41 home runs for Atlanta, becoming part of the first trio
(Hank Aaron, Davey Johnson) to hit 40 or more homers for the same
team in the same season. He was on first base when Aaron hit his
historic 715th career homer in 1974, breaking Babe Ruth’s record as
the all-time home run king, a title he held for 33 years. Evans was
selected to the National League All-Star team for the second time in
1983, his final year with the Giants. He won his only World Series
championship in 1984, as a member of the Detroit Tigers, defeating
the San Diego Padres, whose second baseman, Alan Wiggins, was
another Muir grad. It marked the first time two players from the
same high school played against one another in a World Series. In
1985, at age 38, he became the oldest player to lead the league in
home runs and the first to hit 40 home runs in both leagues. He was
the second of three players (Reggie Jackson, Alex Rodriguez) to hit
100 home runs with three different teams.
