Stamp Our Story (short film)
The award-winning extraordinary story of three elderly Nisei (2nd generation) women who led a successful 15-year campaign to issue the Go For Broke: Japanese American Soldiers of WWII Forever stamp.
The award-winning extraordinary story of three elderly Nisei (2nd generation) women who led a successful 15-year campaign to issue the Go For Broke: Japanese American Soldiers of WWII Forever stamp.
Mia Yamamoto has seen it all. She was born in an incarceration camp during World War II. At age 60 she came out as transgender after a 20-year career as a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles. At age 78, Mia shows no signs of slowing down.
We follow her mission throughout the years to rally communities of color around issues of racism and to bring visibility to the LGBTQ community. Her passion is rooted in her deep ties to the geography of L.A. and the neighborhoods she calls home.
The Things I Haven't Told You Yet is a collage-style, personal narrative composed of emotionally complex memories, questions, thoughts, and stories that meditate on identity, race, transnational adoption, grief, and intergenerational trauma. Filmmaker, Maya Wanner, pieces them together to create a mosaic of a mother-daughter relationship shaped by things left unsaid.
Documentary short on famed street photographer, Corky Lee, who recently passed away from COVID. Over the course of fifty years, he covered the most important events in Asian American history, including issues of hate crimes.
Ricky and Bobby Okamura wrestle with closing their beloved family-owned manju shop after serving the San Francisco Japantown community for 115 years.
Five documentary shorts that will indelibly remind you to treasure the Asian American elders in our community.