There are 11 films in this screening. After you watch the films, please cast your ballots for all films in this film block. You can find the ballot for each film under the viewing window by clicking on its title in the top right side of your screen.

Year of the Plague: As CA issued lockdowns and mask mandates in responses to the Global Pandemic, Fran Ito remained positive and active. FACING THE FUTURE: Live Laugh Love, Have Faith, Be Joyful, Have Purpose in Live.

Year of the Plague

Putting Them Where They Could Do No Harm: Fletcher Bowron, mayor of Los Angeles, 1938-53, used his weekly radio show to indict Japanese as waiting for the signal from the homeland. His amazingly racist rhetoric spewed over Los Angeles’s airwaves, fueled the removal of Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Now is the time to remove his name from the square that honors him.

Putting Them Where They Could Do No Harm

Paper Son: What happens when your family's survival is threatened by uncertainty and unrest? For some, the best answer was to separate the family and send their children away to another country. This is the Fong family's American story.

Paper Son

Laurie Lewis "Manzanar": Music video for Grammy Award-winning folk/bluegrass artist Laurie Lewis’ cover of Tom Russell’s “Manzanar,” featuring both archival and personal photos.

Laurie Lewis "Manzanar"

Kaeru: Trace Tres Fukuhara’s art begins with nature. Many of his works honor family, friends and community. KAERU centers around Fukuhara’s signature Pacific Wind Sculpture Garden in Long Beach, CA.

Kaeru

I'm Still Here: Photos and videos of recent events in Afghanistan bring back vivid memories for Vietnamese refugees and their journey out of Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. Their story of survival continues.

I'm Still Here

Fran: With her infectious laugh and great sense of humor, Pearl Harbor survivor Fran Ito answers a series of questions and reveals her outlook on life. With an indomitable spirit, Fran inspires hope for the future as we persevere through difficult times.

Fran

Eye of the Needle: Age takes its toll, and we each face moments when it can no longer be denied. Our choices in those moments determine how we move through life, and the decisions we make define our options. Attitude matters.

Eye of the Needle

Eating Tamales With Chopsticks: Known for bringing tamales to the crazy camper cookouts each year at the Manzanar Pilgrimage, Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara saw shadows of ghosts in the campfires that warmed the chill of mountain nights. Rubén, of Ruben and the Jets fame and a rock n’ roll immortal, is quintessentially East Los Angeles — activist, poet, singer, writer, producer, historian and art curator.

Eating Tamales With Chopsticks

Do You Love Me: A young sansei girl’s journey in search of her estranged nisei father. She reunites with him after 30 years. Over a period of 4 years, and 80 letters exchanged, they build a bridge that reconnects them. Finally on his death bed, she finds some resolution in her father-daughter relationship.

Do You Love Me?

The Conversation: In the 1960s and ‘70s, a young father made home movies on 8mm film. Fifty years later, this film is brought back to life in a conversation between Grandfather and Grandson, as the audience is treated to a small peek into the immigration narrative of this Pilipino American family.

The Conversation

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