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Screening of Pilgrimage
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5/5/2007
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4:00 PM
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2 Hours
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downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
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Location Details:
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Directors Guild of America, Theater 1
7920 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood
(One block west of Fairfax; corner of Sunset and Hayworth)
Directions: http://www.vconline.org/festival/venues.cfm?venue_id=2\
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Event Topic:
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racism
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Event Type:
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screening
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DESCRIPTION:
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pilgrimage.jpg, image/jpeg, 600x400
Please forward to friends and family who might be interested. Thank you!!!!
***PILGRIMAGE SCREENING AT VC FILM FESTIVAL!!!!!***
"A powerfully moving piece on the dehumanization and dislocations of war, and the community and hope that can be found in resistance." -- Jeff Chang, Author of Can?t Won?t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation
"Tad Nakamura's inspiring new film opens up the Japanese American experience of World War II to a new generation of multicultural activists." -- Yuri Kochiyama, Asian American Activist
PILGRIMAGE - A film by Tadashi H. Nakamura
SATURDAY, MAY 5th at 4pm
Directors Guild of America, Theater 1 7920 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood (One block west of Fairfax; corner of Sunset and Hayworth) Directions: http://www.vconline.org/festival/venues.cfm?venue_id=2\
Tickets are for general and for students and seniors. Purchase in advanced at: {{PGEgaHJlZj0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy52Y29ubGluZS5vcmcvZmVzdGl2YWwvcHJvZ3JhbS5jZm0/cHJvZ3JhbV9pZD0xNSI+aHR0cDovL3d3dy52Y29ubGluZS5vcmcvZmVzdGl2YWwvcHJvZ3JhbS5jZm0/cHJvZ3JhbV9pZD0xNTwvYT4=}}
PILGRIMAGE tells the inspiring story of how an abandoned WWII concentration camp has been transformed into a current-day symbol of restrospection and solidarity in the aftermath of 9/11. For more info on film and other screenings go to: http://www.myspace.com/pilgrimagethemovie
Synopsis of PILGRIMAGE:
Total running time: 20 min.
Pilgrimage tells the inspiring story of how a small group of Japanese Americans in the late 1960s uncovered their lost history and created the Manzanar Pilgrimage, transforming the once-abandoned WWII American concentration camp into a vibrant symbol of retrospection and solidarity for people of all ages, races and nationalities in our post 9/11 world.
Although there are now numerous films on the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, this dark chapter of American history lay virtually forgotten until 1969 when two young Japanese Americans set out to find a place called Manzanar and ended up creating an annual event that has since attracted thousands of people. Calling it a ?pilgrimage,? it was the first public event in the nation to call attention to the reality of the WWII concentration camp experience that had almost been deleted from public understanding.
With a hip music track, never-before-seen archival footage and a story-telling style that features both old and new pilgrims, Pilgrimage is the first film to show how the WWII camps were reclaimed by the children of its victims and how the Manzanar Pilgrimage now has fresh meaning for diverse generations of people who realize that when the US government herded thousands of innocent Americans into what the government itself called concentration camps, it was failure of democracy that would affect all Americans. As the U.S. is again in tumultuous times, Pilgrimage is a timely and engaging film that brings new and much-needed insight to the lessons of the past for our post 9/11 world.
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