Ryan Kawamoto
Ryan Kawamoto trabalha na Kinetic Productions com sede em Honolulu, Havaí, há mais de 11 anos, onde se estabeleceu como diretor de televisão e cinema com talento para contar histórias. Ele é um nipo-americano de quarta geração. Seus bisavós emigraram das províncias de Yamaguchi e Hiroshima para o Havaí durante o início do século XX. Kawamoto atuou como escritor, diretor e editor de The Untold Story: Internment of Nipo-Americanos no Havaí .
Atualizado em outubro de 2013
Stories from This Author
Stepping into the Past: Behind the Scenes of The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i
11 de Outubro de 2013 • Ryan Kawamoto
As a Hawai‘i-born Yonsei filmmaker, I’ve always been deeply interested in films about the Asian American experience. In 2009, I was asked by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i (JCCH) to write and direct a short documentary about the Honouliuli Internment Camp located on the island of O‘ahu. As we began to conduct interviews with survivors and their families, I was exposed to a wealth of oral histories and research that was nearly lost or forgotten. When the short film …
