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Minidoka
(Director / Producer)
Inspired by President Trump’s immigration policies, starting with his attempt to ban Muslims from entering the country and continuing with the treatment of asylum seekers crossing the nation’s southern border. Blue Chalk approached TIME Magazine with a story that memorializes the last time an American president ordered the incarceration of an ethnic minority.
In this film, Seattle-based activist Joseph Shoji Lachman, who is a fourth/fifth generation half-Japanese, travels on a pilgrimage to the Minidoka concentration camp in Hunt, Idaho, in order to understand the ordeals his family endured during World War II. There, amidst the dusty trails and barbed-wire fences, Joseph finds the strength and conviction to pursue his fight for equality and justice for minority citizens.
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