Currently enrolled in University of California Santa Cruz's Social Documentation Graduate Program, Tad Nakamura is a 26 year old, fourth-generation Japanese American and second-generation filmmaker born and raised in Los Angeles. His first documentary, "Yellow Brotherhood'' (2004), won Best Documentary Short at the San Diego Asian Film Festival and has been featured in 16 film festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada.

With a hip music track, never-before-seen archival footage and a story-telling style that feature both old and new pilgrims, Pilgrimage is the first film to show how the U.S. WWII camps were reclaimed by the children of its victims and how the Manzanar Pilgrimage now has fresh meaning for diverse generations of people. As the U.S. is again in tumultuous times, Pilgrimage is a timely and engaging film that brings new and much-needed insight to the lessons of the past for our post 9/11 world.