Location: David Henry Hwang Theater, Union Center for the Arts, 120 Judge John Aiso Street, Los Angeles

Admission is free!

Screening of a new 16mm print of this cinematic landmark, the first feature film produced by and about Asian Americans. Oda, an elderly bachelor living in Little Tokyo, chronicles the stories of the Japanese American community from the turn of the century to the 1970s. A Q&A with Director Robert A. Nakamura and John Esaki (co-writer) will follow the screening.

Co-presented by Los Angeles Filmforum and Visual Communications. Special thanks to the Academy Film Archive.

Cal State honors Nisei with honorary degrees – see the video with their stories. 11 honorees/family members interviewed. George Takei provides the introduction, Bob Suzuki the narration.

After the screening, there will be a panel discussion with:

Kazunori Katayama, one of the honorees (from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)

Bob Suzuki, president emeritus, Cal Poly Pomona and the video’s narrator

Mitch Maki, provost at CSU Dominguez Hills and his daughter, Lane, who is featured in the video.

For more information, please visit: www.calstate.edu/nisei.

Mountains That Take Wing – Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama is an award-winning, inspiring, historically rich and unique documentary featuring conversations that span thirteen years between two formidable women who share a profound passion for justice. Through conversations that are intimate and profound, we learn about Davis, an internationally renowned scholar-activist and 88-year-old Kochiyama, a revered grassroots community organizer and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Their shared experience as political prisoners and their dedication to Civil Rights embody personal and political experiences as well as the diverse lives of women doing liberatory cultural work.

Illustrated with rarely-seen photographs and footage of extraordinary speeches and events from the early 1900s to the '60s and through the present, the topics of this rich conversation range from the critical, but often forgotten role of women in 20th century social movements to the importance of cross-cultural/cross-racial alliances; from Japan's "Comfort Women" to America's WWII internment camps, from Malcolm X to the prison industrial complex; and from war to cultural arts. Davis and Kochiyama's comments offer critical lessons for understanding our nation's most important social movements while providing tremendous hope for its youth and the future.

During World War II, the U.S. government detained more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent in "internment" camps throughout the West. One camp was different. Run by the Department of Justice, the Santa Fe Camp held 4,555 men considered the ‘worst of the worst.’ Despite their experience behind barbed wire, their story has largely been unknown—a hole in the history books for the last 60 years.

Prisoners and Patriots: The Untold Story of Japanese Internment in Santa Fe is the first documentary to fill that void. Based on 20 hours of exclusive interviews with former Santa Fe camp survivors and their families, previously classified government documents and private photographs, this film tells a story that, in many cases, fathers never told their own children after the war.

Santa Fe’s prisoners were all men—some Japanese nationals, some U.S. citizens. Many were Buddhist ministers. Some were businessmen, teachers or journalists from the West Coast, Hawaii, and Latin America whom the U.S. government feared would be able to gain large pro-Japanese followings.

Considering the youngest internees were in their 20s, the few remaining survivors from Santa Fe are now at least in their 80s. Prisoners and Patriots is a film that ensures their story will be preserved, passing on a remembrance of who they were and how they endured their desert detention.

This documentary follows the story of two Japanese Americans who were forced to relocate to Amache, and one Colorado native of Japanese descent who worked for the state government beginning in the Carr administration.