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...director Ana Paula Hirano Litvin says, “At the beginning, the documentary consists more of formal interviews in question and answer format. Then as we got to know the families, and became friends, they became comfortable with us and the camera, and they would talk about their experiences without us even asking. Sometimes we would just stay over at their apartments, cook together, and sleep on their floors. Some of our best scenes were filmed spontaneously at one or two in the morning.” Because of this special relationship between the filmmakers and subjects, the documentary...
When asked what inspired him to work on an immigrant story specifically, Aaron Litvin says, “My parents are immigrants from Moscow, who arrived to the U.S. a few years before I was born. Twenty years ago, a documentary in a similar style was made about my family, telling the story of Jewish migrants from the former Soviet Union. This triggered my interest in making a film about immigration...
...Aaron Litvin was a Latin American Studies concentrator in the Romance Languages and Literatures department at Harvard. The idea for a film about Brazil and Japan grew out of Litvin’s senior thesis, entitled “Brazilian Okazaki, a case study of Brazilian migration to Japan.” During his time as an undergraduate, he visited Brazil and studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Okazaki, Japan...
...found it limiting to just do a thesis in writing that wouldn’t show their lives and that few people would read. I wanted to create something vivid, and I wanted more people to have the opportunity to learn about this movement,” says Aaron Litvin...
Following graduation, Litvin received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a masters in sociology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He made the documentary as he finished his graduate work, explaining, “Whereas the research is trying to make generalizations and conclusions, the idea of the movie in parallel is to find the singularities, differences, diversity within this group. If there was anything we wanted to show, it is how different the experience is for each person, and how the expectations shape the experience...