Konrad Aderer is a documentary filmmaker and freelance producer based in New York City. His feature Resistance at Tule Lake was broadcast nationally on PBS in 2018-2020. His previous documentaries include Enemy Alien and A Corner of Her Eye.
Hats & Ladders is developing a digital game-based lab for teaching career readiness competencies for youth. This video helped them secure a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Producer, Videographer, and Editor: Konrad Aderer
Young Dream Riders -- Asian American immigrant activists on bikes -- are nearing the southern border of the U.S. on their 1,700-mile #Journey2Justice. But these emerging movement leaders are not dreaming of DACA. Their six-week trek is a campaign relentlessly focused on #Citizenship4All -- a path to citizenship for all 11 million out-of-status immigrants.
Alice, a rider whose immigration status has at the moment derailed her own dreams, refuses to hold up DACA as an ultimate goal because it excludes people like her mom, who brought her and her sister to the U.S. for a chance at opportunities not available in Korea.
Out-of-status Asian American activists find their voice and community with NAKASEC (National Korean American Service and Education Consortium), challenging elected officials and calling for a path to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants.
produced for Asian American Life on CUNY TV
https://tv.cuny.edu/show/asianamericanlife
Producer, videographer, editor: Konrad Aderer
Studio interviews: Petar Talijancic
Additional footage: NAKASEC
CUNY students go on a research cruise search of Black Coral in the Gulf of Mexico.
Editor: Konrad Aderer
Client: CUNY TV
Producer: Tinabeth Pina
Videographers: Peter Lee, Tinabeth Pina
New York drag queen Angel Elektra enthralls a room of children with reading, songs, and crafts. The Drag Queen Story Hour is a program that teaches children about gender diversity and difference.
Videographer: Konrad Aderer
Producer: Kate Woodsome
The tools that normalized the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II are being deployed against immigrants today, according to family therapist Satsuki Ina, civil rights activist Karen Korematsu and Carl Takei of the American Civil Liberties Union. Read more: https://wapo.st/2m84JRF
Director and Editor: Konrad Aderer
RESISTANCE AT TULE LAKE tells the long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II. Branded as "disloyals" and re-imprisoned at Tule Lake Segregation Center, they continued to protest in the face of militarized violence, and thousands renounced their U.S. citizenship.
‘a potent piece of history at a time when the United States is once again feeling less than hospitable.”
-- Mike Hale, The New York Times
Videographer: Konrad Aderer
Producer: Kate Woodsome
Japanese Americans who resisted a World War II loyalty test were stigmatized by the U.S. government and their own community. Resisting injustice helps heal the trauma.
Videographer and Editor: Konrad Aderer
This is an urgent call to help save historic Tule Lake.
Tule Lake is where more than 24,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned duringWorld War II. The proposed three-mile-long, eight-feet-high, barbed-wire fence would cut off Japanese American access to the site upon which they and their families were incarcerated. They say a fence is necessary to protect the site from wildlife, but birds are the major form of wildlife at the airport and a fence is ineffective in preventing bird strikes.
Client: U.N. Office of the Secretariat
Editing, Archival Research and format conversion: Konrad Aderer
Producer: Off Ramp Films
GIVAS aims to fill the information gap that currently exists between the point when a global crisis impacts vulnerable populations and when solid quantitative information reaches decision-makers through official statistical channels.
