BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:events.uid.3057@www.discovernikkei.org DTSTART:20110430T000000Z DTEND:20110430T000000Z DESCRIPTION:This is a one-day film festival about Bainbridge\, an island lo cated near Seattle. Find out more about it&rsquo\;s unique history and peo ple. A filmmaker Q&amp\;A will follow the last screening.\n\nProgram is fr ee with <a href="http://www.janm.org/visit/">admission</a>. Reservations r ecommended to <a href="mailto:rsvp@janm.org">rsvp@janm.org</a> or 213.625. 0414 at least 48 hours prior to the event. Include the name\, date\, and t ime of the program\, as well as your name and the total in your party.\n\n <em>Please note that each film is about 10 minutes.</em>\n<em>Port Blakely : Memories of a Milltown</em>\nThis documentary depicts the rise and fall of the largest sawmill in the world and how its legacy affects Bainbridge Island\, Washington. This raw seaport and mill attracted immigrants from a ll over the world who were searching for a job and a better life. Stories and memories reveal the surprising histories of the Native American\, Scan dinavian\, and Japanese communities that once thrived alongside each other in this bustling town.\n\n<em>The Red Pines</em>\nThis companion piece po rtrays the struggle of Japanese American immigrants on Bainbridge Island\, and the legacy of their culture in the present-day community. From the la ws preventing Asians from purchasing land to the incarceration during Worl d War II\, the Japanese Americans had to exert an extraordinary amount of spirit and hard work to prosper.\n\n<em>Island Roots</em>\nThis film focus es on the Filipinos who came to Bainbridge\, mostly working on Japanese Am erican owned strawberry farms in the 1920s and &lsquo\;30s. It is the stor y of their relationship not only with other Island residents\, but in part icular to the Japanese American farmers and Canadian First Nation migrant workers\, many of whom married the Filipino bachelors.\n\n<em>Fumiko Hayas hida: The Woman Behind the Symbol</em>\nA photograph taken of Fumiko Hayas hida\, holding her 13-month old-daughter\, as she waited to be taken off t he Island by armed military escorts\, has since become a lasting iconic sy mbol of the internment experience. This documentary is both a historical p ortrait of Fumiko and her family as well as a contemporary story of how th e iconic photograph became the impetus for Fumiko to publicly lobby agains t the injustices of the past.\n\nA Special Screening of: Honor and Sacrifi ce: Nisei Patriots in the MIS \nA documentary about the Japanese American men who were incarcerated in concentration camps\, enlisted in the U.S. mi litary\, and volunteered to become linguists in the Military Intelligence Service in the Pacific Theater of WWII. The film focuses on the experience of Roy Matsumoto and his personal journey&ndash\;from being born an Ameri can\, raised in Japan\, sent to Jerome\, Arkansas concentration camp as a young man\, to enlisting in the U.S. Army and becoming a hero in fighting the Japanese Army in Burma as part of the U.S. military unit known as Merr ill's Marauders. Produced for Washington State's Office of the Superintend ent of Public Instruction.\n\n<a href="http://www.janm.org/"><span style=" color: #2d4abe\;">www.janm.org</a> DTSTAMP:20240418T113258Z SUMMARY:Bainbridge Film Festival. Films by Lucy Ostrander URL:/en/events/2011/04/30/bainbridge-film-festival-films-by-lucy-ostrander/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR