Tag Results for "memoir"
by Juan Carlos ZaldÃvar
Premiere: July 29, 2003
Cuban American filmmaker Juan Carlos ZaldÃvar, once a 13-year-old loyalist of the Cuban Revolution, recounts the strange twist of fate that took him across one of the world's most treacherous stretches of water in 90 Miles.
by Camille Billops, James Hatch
Premiere: June 29, 1992
In 1961, Camille Billops made a painful decision: to put her four-year-old daughter, Christa, up for adoption. In Finding Christa, Billops is both filmmaker and subject as she tells the story of their separation and ultimate reconciliation.
by Steven Okazaki
Premiere: August 15, 1990
Artist Estell Peck Ishigo went with her Japanese American husband into an internment camp during World War II, one of the few Caucasians to do so. Vividly recreated from Ishigo's own memoirs, photos and paintings, Days Of Waiting reveals the shattering relocation experience from an "outsider's" perspective.