{"id":27888,"date":"2012-11-16T21:56:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T01:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=27888"},"modified":"2012-11-17T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T21:22:46","slug":"taylor-anderson-documentary-draws-thousands-to-center-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/16\/taylor-anderson-documentary-draws-thousands-to-center-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Anderson documentary draws thousands to Center Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WWBT.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=720601;hostDomain=www.nbc12.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=7943558;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc12.com\" title=\"NBC12.com - Richmond, VA News, Weather, Traffic \">NBC12.com &#8211; Richmond, VA News, Weather, Traffic <\/a><br \/>\n<em>From Richmond, VA&#8217;s NBC news affiliate (click link below to see news video):<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc12.com\/story\/20059024\/taylor-anderson?fb_action_ids=3771183823&amp;autoStart=true&amp;topVideoCatNo=default&amp;clipId=7943558\">Taylor Anderson documentary draws thousands to Center Stage<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people turned out to Richmond&#8217;s Center Stage theater Friday, to see the documentary of Taylor Anderson &#8211; a young teacher from Chesterfield who worked and died in the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last spring.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the story of the 24-year-old who is believed to be the first American victim of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The tsunami that followed the 8.9 magnitude quake rocked Japan&#8217;s eastern coast, killing hundreds.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor\u00a0was last seen after the earthquake riding her bike toward her apartment after ensuring that students at her school had been picked up by their parents.<\/p>\n<p>More than a year later &#8211; Taylor&#8217;s story is shared through the documentary\u00a0<em>Live Your Dream: The Taylor Anderson Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Film maker Regge Life interviewed dozens even traveled to Japan to find her story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t until I made the trip to Ishinomaki, and I can talk to her friends face to face, that I knew there was something there,&#8221; said Life.<\/p>\n<p>At the screening, Andy Anderson was happy to see so many people take interest in his daughter&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regge&#8217;s really good at being able to take all the people who are telling Taylor&#8217;s story and weaving us all together,&#8221; said Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You see Taylor from her beginnings as a small child and her interests in Japan that just kept growing through her own nurturing,&#8221; said Life.<\/p>\n<p>There may be more showings, but right now the documentary is not in theaters. It is being sold for educational purposes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright 2012 WWBT\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc12.com\/\">NBC12<\/a>.\u00a0 All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\">JQ<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\"> Magazine<\/a>&#8216;s May 2012 interview with Regge Life on the making of the film, <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/13\/jq-magazine-jqa-with-director-regge-life-on-live-your-dream-the-taylor-anderson-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC12.com &#8211; Richmond, VA News, Weather, Traffic From Richmond, VA&#8217;s NBC news affiliate (click link below to see news video): Taylor Anderson documentary draws thousands to Center Stage RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) &#8211; Thousands of people turned out to Richmond&#8217;s Center Stage theater Friday, to see the documentary of Taylor Anderson &#8211; a young teacher from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[305,378,318,304,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-outreach","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-jets-in-the-news","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-7fO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27888"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27904,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27888\/revisions\/27904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}