Nikkei Flix Monthly Film Program at the JCCC April 9, 2009

NikkeiFLIX, explores Nikkei Identity through film.

The monthly film program, Nikkei Flix is currently running at the Japanese
Canadian Cultural Centre and explores the history, issues and
culture of Japanese emigrants and their descendents.

These films are also all written, directed and produced by Japanese Canadians and Japanese Americans. Nikkei Flix is also part of the JCCC's year-long "Japanese American Experience in Hawaii"

The nikkeiFLIX film series is sponsored by the Nikkei Voice, the national, monthly
newspaper for Japanese Canadians, and the Heritage Committee of the
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. Admission is free to the public and
donations are welcome.

The next film in the series, "American Pastime", shows at the JCCC on April 9th at 7pm. It is an inspiring story of Japanese Americans who are interned at the Topaz camp and overcome humiliation by townsfolk by winning a baseball game and a hair cut.

Other films to be shown as part of nikkeiFLIX program include:

Citizen Tanouye, a fantastic documentary detailing how high school students in
Torrance, Calif. discover one of school’s alumnus is a Medal of Honour winner
with the 442nd Combat group.
Shepherd’s Pie and Sushi, an interesting documentary by Mieko Ouchi, the
award-winning sansei actor/director and playwright who eventually finds her JC
identity.
Beyond the Barbed Wire, an absorbing documentary about the all Japanese American 442nd Combat Battalion, which won respect back for JA's after becoming the most decorated American unit in the Second World War.
Pilgrimage, an interesting and inspirational story about how an annual pilgrimage for Japanese Americans to the Manzanar internment camp turns into a bigger civil rights Minoru, a National Film Board doc on the Japanese Canadian internment.
“Obachan’s Garden”, a unique portrait by sansei film-maker, Linda Ohama, who interviews her 103-year-old grandmother. The former picture bride reveals a painful past of memories and feelings.

Monthly updates on the nikkeiFLIX series can be obtained from the JCCC
website @ http://www.jccc.on.ca/calendar/month.php.

JCCC is located at 6 Garamond Court, Toronto, ON.
Phone: 416-441-2345

Official Website: http://www.jccc.on.ca