Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo

Days of Waiting
Directed by Steven Okazaki
Produced by Steven Okazaki
Assoc. Producer Cheryl Yoshioka
Written by Steven Okazaki
Narrated by Dorothy Stroup
Additional Narration Lynn O'Donnell
Cinematography Steven Okazaki
Edited by Steven Okazaki
Asst. Editor Cheryl Yoshioka
Distributed by Farallon Films
Center for Asian American Media
Release dates
  • 1990 (1990)
Running time
 28 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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[1] and a Peabody Award.

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.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "NY Times: Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-12-04.


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