Several years after the U.S. government’s forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, the Yamamoto family runs a struggling dry-cleaning business in Chicago.

Director - Reina Higashitani

Reina is a Japanese writer/director with an interest in community-involved filmmaking. She has produced and associate produced a number of independent films and TV documentaries including Francis Ford Coppola’s live cinema “Distant Vision,” Sundance Film Festival official selection “Kusama-Infinity,” the Academy Award-nominated documentary short “Redemption” (HBO), and a Tokyo Video Festival Excellence Award-winning documentary “Shall We Sing?”(PBS and KTV), which she also directed. Her previous narrative short “Frog Catcher” was broadcast on KCET/PBS SoCal and screened at film festivals worldwide winning multiple awards including the Audience Award at the Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival and the Creative Excellence Award from the Japan Association of Audiovisual Producers (JAAP). Reina is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University Sidney Poitier New American Film School.