Reviews & Quotes | Finding Her Beat

Educational Media Reviews Online | Reviewed by Jodi Hoover, Digital Resources Manager, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD
Highly Recommended "[D]iscuss issues of gender discrimination as well as feelings of not belonging due to adoption, queerness or racial discrimination."

School Library Journal | Reviewed by Maggie Knapp
"The human connections are as much a part of the film as the energetic and explosive drumming. Those interviewed speak thoughtfully and humbly—yet not without ambition—on the challenges of following a nontraditional path and the value of mutual support and fostering belonging."

Journal of International Women's Studies | Reviewed by Minae Savas
"This documentary celebrates HERbeat’s liberation from such a dichotomy between
masculinity and femininity in the taiko performing arts."

Film Threat | Bobby LePire
10/10 “One of the year’s most engaging and captivating documentaries."

Portland Tribune | Darleen Ortega
"The film [...] will delight and move audiences whether or not they know anything about taiko."

Asian Movie Pulse | Olivia Popp
"[A]n insightful look into an influential art form that also defies a false and frequently misconstrued binary between tradition and modernity."

Los Angeles Blade | Rob Watson
"A story of women rising against a patriarchal backdrop, finding the power of sisterhood, and creating history through the drama of musical expression."