FARALLON FILMS
Award-winning films by Steven Okazaki
“A modern tragedy, an extraordinary love story set against one of the darkest chapters in American history.”
Peter Stack of the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE wrote:
"DAYS OF WAITING is a poignant documentary about an extraordinary woman, artist Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned with 110,000 Japanese Americans in 1942.
When internment came, she refused to be separated from her Japanese American husband and lived with him for four years behind barbed wire in the desolate Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming.
During her internment, the artist recorded the rigors and deprivations of camp life with unusual insight, her sketches and watercolors forming a moving portrait of the lives of the internees, the struggle to keep their health, dignity and hope alive."
Major funding provided by CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING and the WALLACE ALEXANDER GERBODE FOUNDATION. Additional funding provided by ZELLERBACH FAMILY FUND and THE COLUMBIA FOUNDATION
Produced, Written & Directed by STEVEN OKAZAKI
1990 / Documentary / 28 Minutes
