Unique portrait by Sansei filmmaker Linda Ohama who interviews her 103-year old grandmother and discovers a picture bride's painful buried past.
Free admission.
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The next presentation for the nikkeiFLIX film series on Thursday November 12, 2009 will be “Obaachan’s Garden,” a moving portrait of her grandmother by Sansei film-maker, Linda Ohama.
The film, scheduled for a 7:00pm start at the JCCC, should be a revealing experience for most Nikkei because Ohama succeeded in getting her grandmother to reveal memories, emotions and experiences of her past her family never knew.
Ohama discovers a painful, buried past, peeling back layers of her grandmother’s life, especially from the time she arrived in Canada as a picture bride in 1923.
This showing will conclude the nikkeiFLIX film series of Japanese Canadian and Japanese American films and documentaries for this year.
Last month, a special appearance by Nikkei film-maker, Ken Galloway, showcased a night of young, JC film-makers and their work. They included work by Jeff Chiba Stearns of Vancouver, Galloway, and Japanese American film-maker Tad Nakamura.
The nikkeiFLIX film series is co-sponsored by the JCCC Heritage Committee and the Nikkei Voice.
