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January 12, 2008
Posted: 05:00 PM ET
Tadashi Nakamura,left, and Yasmin Fedda are both featured in the Short Film Category at Sundance this year.
 The Short Film Category at Sundance is full of talented filmmakers, and Tadashi Nakamura and Yasmin Fedda, both 27, are two of the young standouts with their powerful social commentaries. Nakamura is as a fourth-generation Japanese-American and second-generation filmmaker. His introduction to filmmaking happened at the super-ripe age of 9 days old, in a film directed by his dad, award-winning director Robert A. Nakamura. Now he stands on his own with his film “Pilgrimage,” a tribute to a small group of Japanese-Americans in the late 1960s who transformed an abandoned World War II internment camp into a symbol of solidarity. Fedda has traveled around the world to produce documentaries on subjects like the Santeria religion and colonial stipends in Syria. She is a Lebanese-Canadian filmmaker currently living in Edinburgh, Scotland, which is the scene of her latest film, “Breadmakers,” about a community of workers with learning disabilities who make organic bread for local shops and cafes. Update: Watch the CNN.com Live interview Filed under: Amazing talents • Youngest in the class
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