BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Japanese American WWII Incarceration: Two Documentaries with F ilm Director Janice Tanaka X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260917T044346Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_3164003 DTSTART:20180423T210000Z DTEND:20180423T230000Z DESCRIPTION:Film screening and Q&A with Film Director Janice Tanaka. \n\n\n JANICE TANAKA brings thirty years of filmmaking experience in the Asian Am erican community as a producer\, director\, TV executive and tenured profe ssor. Tanaka both graduated from and taught at USC’s prestigious School of Cinematic Arts. In addition to USC she also was a professor at Indiana University\, Purdue University and was tenured at the University of Florid a. She then became Manager\, Diversity Development\, at Fox\, helping empl oy writers\, actors and directors of color. Simultaneously\, she served as executive producer for a variety of news\, reality and animated TV shows locally for International Channel and nationally for Comcast’s AZNTV. \n \nDeeply affected by her parents incarceration when Japanese Americans wer e unjustly imprisoned during World War II\, Tanaka belongs to just a handf ul of filmmakers with a resume of multiple acclaimed shorts and feature-le ngth films on America’s concentration camps: Bachan\, At Face Value: Asi an Americans in the Midwest\, When You’re Smiling\, Act of Faith: The Re v. Emery Andrews Story\, Rebel With A Cause: The Life of Aiko Herzig Yoshi naga\, and Right of Passage.\n\nTanaka is currently producing By George\, a deeply personal story about a bakery and its founder\, George Izumi\, wh o epitomized Japanese American resiliency during the harsh post-war resett lement years\; and Setsuko\, a biography of activist and scholar\, Setsuko Matsunaga\, whose seminal thesis explored the unique wartime Japanese Ame rican experience in Chicago.\n\nTanaka continues to be involved with broad cast TV as a script evaluator for ABC’s New Talent Development Program. She produces videos for the Japanese American National Museum\, Advancing Justice-LA and the USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association.\n\nFLYER | RSVP | FILM POSTER\n\nAbout the films:\n\nOHAKAMAIRI: A Visit to the Graves \n\n Created in 1976 as an undergraduate Cinema student at USC\, Janice D. Tana ka documents the early years of the annual pilgrimage by Reverend Sentoku Maeda\, a Buddhist minister who was incarcerated at the Manzanar concentra tion camp during World War II. Reverend Maeda describes the harsh conditio ns and the early struggles with camp administrators to conduct Buddhist se rvices in Japanese. Because he made a promise to visit the graves of those who died after the war is over\, he traveled from Los Angeles with his fa mily to honor their memory for nearly 30 years. As the Sansei\, third gene ration Japanese Americans\, began to explore the history of their parents ’ incarceration\, they joined him and began what is today known as the “Manzanar Pilgrimage.”\n\nACT OF FAITH: The Rev. Emery Andrews Story\n \nA pastor at Seattle’s Japanese Baptist Church\, Rev. Emery Andrews dev oted his entire life to serving Japanese communities in the Pacific Northw est. Fondly known as “Andy\,” he never stopped ministering his congreg ation\, even after they were forcibly removed and wrongly imprisoned at th e Minidoka concentration camp following the attack on Pearl Harbor.\n\nDra wing from never-before-seen letters\, emotional interviews\, and a rare li fe history audio recording by Rev. Andy\, award winning documentarian Jani ce D. Tanaka goes behind the pulpit and beyond the cloth to present a deep ly moving and ultimately inspiring story of an unsung hero whose selfless service came at a costly personal price. GEO:34.022013;-118.289205 LOCATION:Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC)\, TCC 227 SUMMARY:Japanese American WWII Incarceration: Two Documentaries with Film D irector Janice Tanaka URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/japanese_american_wwii_incarce ration_two_documentaries_with_film_director_janice_tanaka CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Film Screening END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR