Two shorts — one animation and one short documentary — highlight forms of resistance behind barbed wire.
The story of attorney Wayne M. Collins, whose passionate and uncompromising defense of the Constitution drove him to spend 23 years representing Japanese Americans who renounced their American citizenship while imprisoned at the embattled Tule Lake Segregation Center.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
SHARON YAMATO is a journalist, TV producer, and independent filmmaker with more than four decades of experience in media and TV/film production. Her films include “Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn,” “A Flicker in Eternity,” and “Moving Walls,” for which she wrote an accompanying book, “Moving Walls: The Barracks of America's Concentration Camps.” She is a regular columnist for The Rafu Shimpo newspaper and has written articles for the Los Angeles Times.
- Year2023
- Runtime30 minutes
- DirectorSharon Yamato
Two shorts — one animation and one short documentary — highlight forms of resistance behind barbed wire.
The story of attorney Wayne M. Collins, whose passionate and uncompromising defense of the Constitution drove him to spend 23 years representing Japanese Americans who renounced their American citizenship while imprisoned at the embattled Tule Lake Segregation Center.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
SHARON YAMATO is a journalist, TV producer, and independent filmmaker with more than four decades of experience in media and TV/film production. Her films include “Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn,” “A Flicker in Eternity,” and “Moving Walls,” for which she wrote an accompanying book, “Moving Walls: The Barracks of America's Concentration Camps.” She is a regular columnist for The Rafu Shimpo newspaper and has written articles for the Los Angeles Times.
- Year2023
- Runtime30 minutes
- DirectorSharon Yamato