APABA and SABA present:
A Sneak Peek at a Work-in-Progress: “Destination Manzanar: A Muslim-American’s Pilgrimage to America’s Most Infamous Incarceration Camp.”
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
The Downtown Independent
251 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
6:00 Reception - 6:45 Sneak Peek Preview - 7:00 Panel Discussion
qualified for 1.5 hours of Elimination of Bias MCLE credit
Event Sponsors: APAWLA, JABA, & KABA
Community Partner: Muslim Bar Association of So. Cal.
This event will feature a 15-minute sneak preview of the work-in-progress documentary film by Corey Ohama, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor whose work, which has appeared on PBS, takes an artistic approach to social issues like growing up undocumented and the impact of World War II incarceration of Japanese-Americans. This sneak preview of her latest work will be followed by a one-hour MCLE qualified discussion featuring Corey Ohama herself and two of the documentary film’s main characters, Adnan Perwez and Wilbur Sato. A food and drinks reception will precede the sneak preview and discussion.
About the film: The documentary film follows Adnan, a UC Davis Muslim-American student, joining several thousand others on the Manzanar Pilgrimage, an annual pilgrimage from Los Angeles, California, to Manzanar, now a national historic site and previously home to one of 10 camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were incarcerated during World War II. Adnan meets Wilbur Sato, a retired Japanese-American attorney who has made the pilgrimage every year since 1980 -- Wilbur was just 13 years old when he and his family were incarcerated at Manzanar in 1942. On their collective and individual journeys to Manzanar, particularly on this year’s 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 authorizing Japanese-American and Japanese incarceration, and under the shadow of a Trump administration that has instituted a Muslim ban and has talked about registering Muslim-Americans, it is not difficult to see and reflect on how yesterday’s experiences remain relevant lessons for today and beyond -- and that fighting for and protecting civil liberties is truly a democratic project and pursuit by all.
