Celine Parrenas Shimizu is an award-winning filmmaker and film scholar.

Shimizu is a daughter of political refugees from the Philippines

Philippines

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. Her family relocated to Boston

Boston

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 when she was 14 years old. She attended the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 and received a B.A. in Ethnic Studies

Ethnic studies

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 in 1988. She has an M.F.A. in Film Directing from the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

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 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University

Stanford University

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 in Modern Thought and Literature. She is married to Daniel Paul Shimizu with whom she has two sons.

Shimizu is an Associate Professor of Asian American, Film and Media, and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

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. Her first book The Hypersexuality Of Race won the Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies

Association for Asian American Studies

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. In it, she analyzes hypersexual representations of Asian American

Asian American

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women in various media including industry and independent film, pornography and feminist video. Her film The Fact Of Asian Women (2002) won four international festival awards.