This screening features 2 films and is only available to audiences in Oregon and Washington. Toggle between film descriptions by scrolling and clicking on the buttons at the top right.
One Fighting Irishman tells the story of San Francisco attorney Wayne M. Collins whose uncompromising defense of the Constitution drove him to spend twenty-three years representing over 5,000 of the most maligned Japanese Americans who renounced their American citizenship under duress while imprisoned at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II.
Director - Sharon Yamato
Sharon Yamato is a writer/filmmaker who wrote, produced and directed "Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn," awarded the Special Jury Mention at the Tribeca Film Festival. She also wrote and co- directed the award-winning documentary, "A Flicker in Eternity," based on the diary and letters of WWII veteran Stanley Hayami, and served as creative consultant on "A Life in Pieces," the virtual reality version of the Hayami story, also featured at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. She wrote, directed and produced "Moving Walls," a story about what happened to the barracks at the Heart Mountain concentration camp, and is the author of the accompanying book, "Moving Walls: Preserving the Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps.”
This screening features 2 films and is only available to audiences in Oregon and Washington. Toggle between film descriptions by scrolling and clicking on the buttons at the top right.
One Fighting Irishman tells the story of San Francisco attorney Wayne M. Collins whose uncompromising defense of the Constitution drove him to spend twenty-three years representing over 5,000 of the most maligned Japanese Americans who renounced their American citizenship under duress while imprisoned at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II.
Director - Sharon Yamato
Sharon Yamato is a writer/filmmaker who wrote, produced and directed "Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn," awarded the Special Jury Mention at the Tribeca Film Festival. She also wrote and co- directed the award-winning documentary, "A Flicker in Eternity," based on the diary and letters of WWII veteran Stanley Hayami, and served as creative consultant on "A Life in Pieces," the virtual reality version of the Hayami story, also featured at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. She wrote, directed and produced "Moving Walls," a story about what happened to the barracks at the Heart Mountain concentration camp, and is the author of the accompanying book, "Moving Walls: Preserving the Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps.”
