Director of "A Family Gathering" for "The American Experience" (1989, PBS), Tegnell also served as an editorial consultant for THE HAMSTER FACTOR AND OTHER TALES OF TWELVE MONKEYS (1996), and she edited the segment "Mirror Dance" for "Independent Lens" (2005). "Family Gathering" relates the personal journey of three generations of a Japanese American family. Settling in the 1900s in Hood River, Oregon, the Yasui family became respectable figures in the valley community. Yet in December, 1941, they were considered "potentially dangerous" enemy aliens and sent to internment camps. After the war, they would struggle to reclaim their place as patriotic Americans.  Nominated for Achievement in Documentary Short Subjects 1988: FAMILY GATHERING - Producer (w. Lise Yasui) 1 nomination