Documentary "Manzanar Fishing Club" will be screened for free at UC Berkeley, Genetics and Plant Biology building Rm 100 near Hearst and Oxford. The film will start at 6:30 PM, followed by Q&A with director Cory Shiozaki. Limited seating is first come, first served. Open to public.
"Manzanar" offers a look at one chapter of a little known story. During World War Two, the U.S. government forced more than 110 thousand persons of Japanese ancestry, including 80 thousand U.S. citizens, to leave their homes and move into concentration camps. Yet at the Manzanar camp, some internees slipped away from the barbed wire and armed guards to go fishing in nearby streams and mountain lakes.
"Manzanar" was released commercially earlier this year.
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The Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program of the UC Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies, as well as the Contra Costa, Diablo Valley and Berkeley chapters of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) and the Fund to Support Public Education about the Japanese American Wartime Experience, are sponsoring this event.
