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The Union: ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’ returns to the Nevada Theatre

CATS is partnering with Onyx Downtown on Sunday, May 26, to bring the documentary, ‘Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust,’ “an inspired and poetic portrait of a place and its people follows intergenerational women from three communities who defend their land, their history, and their culture from the insatiable thirst of Los Angeles.”

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The Rafu Shimpo: ‘Manzanar, Diverted’ Screening at UC Riverside

“Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust” (2021, 84 minutes) will be screened on Saturday, Oct. 14, at 4:30 p.m. at Culver Center of the Arts on the UC Riverside campus. The free screening of Ann Kaneko’s documentary (with Spanish subtitles) will be presented with the launch of the Manzanar, Diverted Augmented Reality visual sound bath.

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Courier-Gazette community briefs: Aug. 18

Rockland Public Library presents a free, public screening of “Manzanar, Diverted When Water Becomes Dust,” by Ann Kaneko and Jin Yoo-Kim, at 6 p.m. with the option to attend at the library or via Zoom.

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‘Manzanar, Diverted’ Discussion and Broadcast

In partnership with the documentary “Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust,” a free, virtual live-streamed day of action, “Manzanar Diverted: Converging Conversations,” will be held on Sunday, July 17, at 10 a.m. Pacific, 12 p.m. Central, 1 p.m. Eastern.

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Indigenous higher education

A documentary highlighting an alliance between California Natives and Japanese Americans is coming to an acclaimed TV series. “Manzanar Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust” is set to premiere on the POV series on July 18 on PBS stations.

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KPBS Presents: POV: Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

The national broadcast premiere of Emmy Award-winning director Ann Kaneko’s (“Against the Grain: An Artist’s Survival Guide to Perú”) and producer Jin Yoo-Kim’s (“A Woman’s Work: The NFL Cheerleader Problem”) “Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust” premieres Monday, July 18, 2022.

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SAAFF film review: “Manzanar, Diverted” documents the intersection of Native American forced removals, Japanese American incarceration and water rights

We are, all of us, connected. Not only to one other, through our familial bonds, friendships, romantic partnerships, but to nature around us. We are connected to the land, to the animals, to weather patterns and the flowing of fresh water. By our very nature, humans seek out these connections, these bonds with one another. Our own wellbeing depends on the welfare of others and the health of the environment as a whole.

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All In This Together

Onscreen, ‘Manzanar, Diverted’ examines the intersections of race and history. Between the frames, it centers three generations of Japanese American female activists.

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A Story of Many Communities in ‘Manzanar Diverted’

Though known as a dusty desert and a site of injustice for Japanese Americans, filmmaker Ann Kaneko delved into the intricate history of water rights and the people of California’s Owens Valley in “Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust.”

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Three Films that Demonstrate the Importance of Land to Life

While Manzanar, Diverted makes no small topic of racism, marginalisation or environmental exploitation, archival scenes of flower gardens and fruiting trees serve to underline the central premise of the film: that the Manzanar site, along with the watershed of the surrounding Owens Valley, is a potent symbol of both oppression and resistance.

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IDA Documentary Awards 2021: Nominations

See the 37th Annual IDA Documentary Awards nominees for all categories as well as the winners for two sponsored awards! Winners for all other categories will be announced at the virtual awards ceremony on Friday, March 4, 2022.

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Indigenous Film+ Online and more 2021

“Beginning in Payahuunadü (“the land of flowing water”), also known as Owens Valley, the film lights the colonial legacy of injustice shared at the site of Manzanar.

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Check On Your Elders

We visit with the executive director of National Indian Council on Aging to talk a new campaign to target elder social isolation. Plus we learn more about a new documentary called “Manzanar Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust”

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Here is the lineup for the 2021 Milwaukee Film Festival

Milwaukee Film’s compiled an incredible lineup of movies for you to watch – more than 200 options, ranging from shorts to feature films, recent Oscar nominees to kooky comedies, animated adventures and intense horror flicks, and even a documentary starring a pig.

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Manzanar’s ‘unexpected’ land defenders

Not all of her films have been about the wartime incarceration, but Ann Kaneko’s latest documentary, Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust (2021, 84 min.) focuses on the Japanese American mass incarceration story from a new angle.

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Film Independent Selects 11 Filmmakers For Documentary Lab

This year’s Documentary Lab consists entirely of women filmmakers whose projects cover a range of topics including a coming of age story about young women surfers in Bangladesh and a lush, poetic portrait of China’s industrial supply chain, among others.

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A ‘Diverting’ Look at Manzanar

Participants in the Manzanar Pilgrimage this Saturday will have an opportunity to see “Manzanar, Diverted,” a work-in-progress by filmmaker Ann Kaneko, from 8 to 9:30 p.m. (after Manzanar At Dusk) at the Museum of Western Film History, 701 S. Main St. in Lone Pine.

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