March 2, 2014
Today, the 2nd of March, we completed the final films of our festival. We finished our first decade of the film festival with a bang: over 70 individuals participated and enjoyed today’s finale. The two films presented exemplified our temple’s theme of “Exile” for this year: “Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story,” and “The Music Man of Manzanar.” Also screened was a trailer for an upcoming documentary, “We Said NO NO.” The loss one feels when deemed unwanted by the society we were raised in, ostracized and imprisoned for something we (the Japanese American community) were innocent of, was our historic exile.
Thank you to Phyllis Hayashibara and Richard Modiano for making today’s event possible. Thank you to our panelists who made the event more personal as each shared their experiences: Arnold Maeda, exiled to Manzanar from Santa Monica; Bill Nishimura, “no-no boy” exiled from Poston to Tule Lake to Santa Fe to Crystal City; Hank Iwamoto, whose family self-exiled to Colorado and Oklahoma; Brian Maeda, born in Manzanar, filmmaker and supporter of Manzanar Committee and Manzanar Pilgrimage. Finally, thank you to all who participated and made this event a memorable one. Gasshou
From The Venice Hongwanji Film Festival Finale for 2014. Posted by Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple on 3/03/2014 (28 items)
- An overview of the panel as they shared their stories.
- The event begins as the festival starts with the first film (Of Civil Wrongs and Righ…
- The film ran approximately 1 hour.
- Intermission between as we fill up on snacks and drinks.
- This is the end of the 2nd film, "Music Man of Manzanar (2007) by Brian Maeda. R…
- Phyllis introduces Brian Maeda, director/cinematographer/screenplay.
- Brian takes the mike.
- The participants listening to Brian.
- Ready to turn the mike back to Phyllis for introductions to the other panelists.
- The four panelists are now gathered and setting up for the presentations and discussi…
- Each shares their story and experiences of campo
- Continuing to listen…
- The presentations and Q&A finished at 4 PM.
- Here is a poster featuring Brian Maeda’s next film. "We Said ‘No No.’" We w…
- Here is the last photo as we get ready to clean up and bring a close to the Venice Ho…
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