"Two Pandemics" documentary, created by Robert Landau
Project Description
"Two Pandemics" is a feature documentary about the rise in Asian-directed racism throughout the COVID-19 era. This film is essentially a response to the severe lack of media-coverage of the rise of Asian-directed hate crimes resulting from COVID-19 disinformation and misguided blame. Through the insight of seven unique interviews including those with two University students, a Government employee, a videographer/author, a community-organizer, two professors, and a documentary filmmaker, the filmmaker hopes to revive public awareness of this issue, to provoke further discussion, and to reignite media coverage to remind the world of its continuing impact.
About the Artist
Robert Landau is a narrative and documentary filmmaker who is currently obtaining his Masters of Fine Arts in Film, Television and Digital Media at the University of Georgia. He graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 2022, and has had the privilege to collaborate with some incredibly talented artists and produce works that he is truly proud of. Of these projects, he is most proud of "Two Pandemics", as it gave him an infinitely-valuable chance to discuss such an incredibly important subject with a diverse group of individuals to whom the subject has pertained most. He has come to adopt this form of storytelling as one of his life’s passions, and continues to strive for further opportunities to amplify diverse voices.