Lise Yasui is a filmmaker and producer based in Philadelphia. She served on the board of the National Asian American Telecommunications Association, and serves as a consulting producer on independent documentary projects with the Long Bow Group of Boston. Yasui has worked extensively in the nonprofit funding arena and as a curator and educator with a special interest in multicultural media. In 1988, she was nomintaed for an Academy Award® in the Best Documentary Short Subject for her film "American Experience: A Family Gathering." She was also a producer of 1995's "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" and the coordinating producer of 2003's "A Morning Sun." In 1997 she and Cindy Burstein co-produced and directed "How Our Garden Grows: A Portrait of the After-School Program at St. Gabriel's".  Nominated for Achievement in Documentary Short Subjects 1988: FAMILY GATHERING - Producer (w. Ann Tegnell) 1 nomination