The past informs our future.
Take a look back through the lens of both short documentaries and narrative dramas as we contemplate tomorrow’s potential.
Total Runtime: 78 minutes
The Fourth March | Kai-hoi: The Return | EUREKA | 1992 | Mink!
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The Fourth March
Directed by Robert Shoji
Documentary| 8 mins | English | Boston Premiere
Many are familiar with the three civil rights marches (collectively known as the Selma to Montgomery marches) that happened in Alabama in March of 1965. There was however a fourth march with Martin Luther King Jr. and a young 21-year-old Japanese American activist. This fourth march has been forgotten by time.
Ka-hoi: The Return
Directed by Mitchel Merrick
Drama | 20 mins | English, Hawaiian with English Subtitles | East Coast Premiere
In KA HO‘I, an aging Hawaiian War Veteran grapples with the nightmares of his past, and the even scarier thought of being forgotten as the world around him seems to leave him in the dust. One night, he hears a familiar voice calling him from the beach, and what he encounters is beyond anything he could have imagined.
EUREKA
Directed by Miida Chu
Drama | 15 mins | English, Cantones with English Subtitles | Boston Premiere
A young indentured Chinese prostitute must overcome her toxic dependency on the brothel madam on the eve of the 1885 anti-Chinese riot in Eureka, California.
Advisory: Strong language, racial slurs
1992
Directed by Kuan Cao
Drama | 15 mins | English, Korean with English Subtitles | East Coast Premiere
A Korean mom and her son reunite and survive in the LA riots together in 1992.
Mink!
Directed by Ben Proudfoot
Documentary | 20 mins | English
Told by her daughter Wendy, MINK! chronicles the remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American from Hawaii who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress, on her harrowing mission to co-author and defend Title IX, the law that transformed athletics for generations in America for girls and women.
