“Ultimate Bias: Jpop vs. Kpop” is a short film touring the festival circuit this year about multi-ethnic students attending a Japanese immersion school in Northern Virginia, U.S.A. that hopes to educate and spotlight how unconscious bias happens based upon how someone looks, versus who they are inside.
“We’re creating a film that models for us how we can build a better culture of acceptance right here in our own community,” Albert Vazquez, the movie’s creative director, says.
Mari Robinson, the writer and director of the film, was born in Fukuoka, Japan to a Japanese recording artist and an Native American G.I.
Having lived in both Japan and the United States, and worked in several others, Robinson writes stories on acculturation, ironic and familiar aspects of life that celebrate the underdog’s potential and characteristics that are intrinsic to being human — no matter what country or culture you’re from.
The filmmakers have received fiscal sponsorship from FilmIndependent.org, which means all contributions are tax-deductible.
For more information, check out the trailer below or go to silvanomarifilms.com.
