|
Meet the
filmmakers! The
Asian American
Studies Program
welcomes Ruth
Okimoto, Joe Fox
and James Nubile
for a discussion
about their new
film, Passing
Poston.
About the
Film
For The
Thousands of
Japanese
Americans
Forcibly
Interned During
World War II,
The Scars Have
Never Healed.
For Ruth Okimoto
the need to
confront the
past brings her
back to the
desert of
Arizona where
she spent her
childhood years
behind barbed
wire. Back to
the Colorado
River Indian
Reservation,
where Poston was
built. It is a
journey Ruth
takes, to find
meaning in the
inexplicable as
she searches to
discover the
true story of
how the Poston
camp came into
being.
Passing Poston
tells the moving
and haunting
story of four
former internees
of the Poston
Relocation
Center. Each
person shadowed
by a tragic
past, each
struggling in
their own
painful way to
reconcile the
trauma of their
youth, each
still searching
and yearning
during the last
chapter of their
lives, to find
their rightful
place in this
country.
URL:
www.passingposton.com
For more
information,
contact the AASP
Program
Coordinator:
jennifer.hayashida@hunter.cuny.edu
URL:
www.hunter.cuny.edu/aasp
|
