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...They should show this to everyone going to Japan,” said Charles D. Teague ’74 as he walked out of the screening of “From Brazil to Japan,” a new documentary directed by Aaron Litvin ’04 and Ana Paula Hirano Litvin, focusing on the new trend of Brazilian immigration to Japan. By crafting a film that highlights the personal experiences of such a journey, the Litvins illuminate both the struggles of immigration as a whole as well as the emotional issues that arise from an ever-globalizing...
...that is both nuanced and unique. “From Brazil to Japan” follows several families of Brazilian migrants over the course of three years, May 2006 to May 2009, as they move from São Paulo to a new life in Japan. Aaron Litvin explains their reason for choosing this format, saying, “There were many journalistic accounts as well as academic sociological articles about this Brazil-Japan trend, but there was no comprehensive work that followed the same people over time to show the actual developments, changes and experiences...
...documentary, the immigrants narrate their own stories, which include many touching, humorous, and heartbreaking moments. The voices of the filmmakers, on the other hand, are not discernable. “That was very conscious decision,” says Aaron Litvin. “We didn’t want to appear and we didn’t want our questions to appear. We decided to not have any external sound added to the film to try to make it as direct and transparent as possible.” This technique creates a sense of authenticity, as the audience gets...
When asked what inspired him to work on an immigrant story specifically, Aaron Litvin says, “My parents are immigrants from Moscow, who arrived to the U.S. a few years before I was born. Twenty years ago, a documentary in a similar style was made about my family, telling the story of Jewish migrants from the former Soviet Union. This triggered my interest in making a film about immigration...
...Aaron Litvin was a Latin American Studies concentrator in the Romance Languages and Literatures department at Harvard. The idea for a film about Brazil and Japan grew out of Litvin’s senior thesis, entitled “Brazilian Okazaki, a case study of Brazilian migration to Japan.” During his time as an undergraduate, he visited Brazil and studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Okazaki, Japan...