Randy Rice, Farmers Insurance Education Programs National Manager, and Dan Winter, Farmers of Audio-Visual and Special Projects, received the Best Director Award for his or her documentary movie Across the Waves, Voices from the Asian-Pacific Yank Community. The honor was offered by the Chashama Film Festival in New York City. This year, the festival received more than 2,000 films from filmmakers in 32 countries. The Best Director Award category includes options, documentaries, animation, short and full-length films.
Across the Waves chronicles the touching journeys of Pacific-Asian immigrants who fled their homelands to seek the Yank dream. Featured in the film are a number of the foremost influential figures in the Asian-Pacific Yank community: Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, United States Congressman Mike Honda, NASA House Shuttle astronaut Sunita Williams and renowned civil rights activist Angela Oh.
Across the Waves is one in all many academic DVD programs that Farmers agents give to colleges free. Besides showing community leadership, agents are also able to use the programs to widen relationships with faculties and promote the Farmers trademark.
The Best Director Award is Across the Waves’ third film festival award this year. The documentary has additionally won the Platinum Remi at the Worldfest Film Competition in Houston in April and the Grand Festival Award at the Berkeley Film Competition last month in Berkeley, Calif.
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