Director Steven Okazaki Story by Estelle Peck Ishigo | Written by Steven Okazaki Initial release 1990 Screenplay Steven Okazaki | |
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Produced by Steven OkazakiAssoc. Producer Cheryl Yoshioka Edited by Steven OkazakiAsst. Editor Cheryl Yoshioka Cast Estelle Peck Ishigo, Lynn O'Donnell, Dorothy Stroup People also search for Burning Down Tomorrow | ||
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Days of Waiting (1990) is a documentary short film by Steven Okazaki, about Estelle Ishigo, a Caucasian artist who went voluntarily to an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. The film was inspired by Ishigo's book, "Lone Heart Mountain", and won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject and a Peabody Award.
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Background
During World War II, when 110,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated from the West Coast to various American concentration camps, Estelle Peck Ishigo refused to be separated from her Nisei (second generation Japanese American) husband. She voluntarily accompanied him to the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center. A painter and illustrator, Ishigo documented her experience through her art. She later published these works and wrote about her experience in her book, "Lone Heart Mountain," which along with personal papers, were the basis of the film. She was discovered living in destitution in her senior years, by the filmmakers as they researched her story.