The story of one man’s legal battle to regain American citizenship for more than 5,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry forced to renounce amidst turmoil and violence at the Tule Lake Segregation Center, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps. It took attorney Wayne M. Collins more than 23 years to restore citizenship for nearly all of them.
Director Biography - 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.”
The story of one man’s legal battle to regain American citizenship for more than 5,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry forced to renounce amidst turmoil and violence at the Tule Lake Segregation Center, considered the worst of America’s ten WWII concentration camps. It took attorney Wayne M. Collins more than 23 years to restore citizenship for nearly all of them.
Director Biography - 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.”