Across the Waves wins Best Director Award in New York

Randy Rice, Farmers Insurance Education Programs National Manager, and Dan Winter, Farmers Director of Audio-Visual and Special Projects, received the Best Director Award for their documentary film Across the Waves, Voices from the Asian-Pacific American Community. The award was presented by the Chashama Film Festival in New York City. This year, the festival received more than 2,000 films from filmmakers in 32 countries. The Best Director Award category includes features, documentaries, animation, short and full-length films.

Across the Waves chronicles the emotional journeys of Pacific-Asian immigrants who fled their homelands to seek the American dream. Featured in the film are some of the most influential figures in the Asian-Pacific American community: Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, United States Congressman Mike Honda, NASA Space Shuttle astronaut Sunita Williams and famed civil rights activist Angela Oh.

Across the Waves is one of several educational DVD programs that Farmers agents provide to schools free. Besides showing community leadership, agents are also able to use the programs to develop relationships with schools and promote the Farmers brand.

The Best Director Award is Across the Waves? third film festival award this year. The documentary has also won the Platinum Remi at the Worldfest Film Festival in Houston in April and the Grand Festival Award at the Berkeley Film Festival last month in Berkeley, Calif.

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