About

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My name is Amber McClure, and I am an independent documentary producer, filmmaker and genealogist from Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi.

I recently completed FINDING DOHI, a short documentary film that intimately details the process of finding members of my mother’s family in Japan – family members we had not known of before we began our research. Our family’s story, while unique in some ways, is similar to those of many other Japanese immigrant families in Hawaiʻi. Throughout the course of producing this film, I became acutely aware of how quickly the connections between many families in Hawaiʻi and Japan were fading. The reasons for this decline are many, but it is largely due to the fact that the post-WWII environment discouraged Japanese language speaking and education, and the harsh realities of plantation camp life pushed many to pursue living an American way of life.

While our last surviving nisei (2nd generation) and sansei (3rd generation) immigrant descendants are able to share their stories, my goal is to work together with families to record their family history, and research their ancestral roots in Hawaiʻi and Japan. Please contact me to begin a conversation!

Services

Experience

Genealogical Principles Course (2019)
Boston University

Communications Manager
Pacific Islanders in Communications

Program management, digital media production, and supporting filmmakers with the distribution of films for national public television broadcast

MA Visual Anthropology
Goldsmiths, University of London

BA Cultural Anthropology/Japanese
Western Washington University

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Certificate
Western Washington University