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Filmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by Q&A.
Before one story comes full circle, we look back at where it began — in dialogue between a father and son, each behind the camera. TWO ACTS brings together Robert Nakamura’s quietly poetic Manzanar, made as a student in the UCLA EthnoCommunications program, and Tadashi Nakamura’s Pilgrimage, a powerful portrait of community resistance and remembrance. Together, these films trace not just a legacy of activism and identity, but a lineage of storytelling.
In this program
MANZANAR
Directed by: Robert A. Nakamura | 17 mins
Created by Robert Nakamura as a graduate student in UCLA’s Ethnocommunications Program, Manzanar is a lyrical and pensive documentary in which a nisei reflects on his childhood incarceration at the Manzanar camp and the enduring effects of internment on his adult life.
PILGRIMAGE
Directed by: Tadashi Nakamura | 23 mins
PILGRIMAGE tells the inspiring story of how an abandoned WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans has been transformed into a symbol of retrospection and solidarity for people of all ages, races and nationalities in our post 9/11 world.
