originated on 16mm film,
digitally remastered and updated
on digital video
Tamlyn Tomita
Liberation Army kidnapped newspaper heiress
Patricia Hearst. A month later, SLA members
and Hearst robbed a bank in San Francisco.
After the telecast shootout with police in Los
Angeles, two remaining SLA members and Hearst
fled to rural Pennsylvania, where they met
Wendy Yoshimura. Wendy was eluding
authorities who had indicted her on weapons
and explosives charges in 1972. After 3 years
on the run, Wendy was captured with Hearst in
a San Francisco apartment, where the FBI
threatened to "blow Wendy's head off". She
was kept in isolation for 40 days, then jailed
for 3 months until the Wendy Yoshimura Fair
Trial Committee came to her aid.
This is the true story of Wendy Yoshimura,
Japanese American woman artist...
from her Japanese childhood to her
villification by the media, to her life
in the revolutionary '70s and the
community that rallied behind her against
injustice. With scenes of Berkeley
protests, a pilgrimage to Manzanar
relocation camp, interviews with the Issei
founder of her defense committee and her
defense team. A truly "old school"
documentary: no sea-sick camerawork, no
half-sentence soundbites, no rap music.
Photographed and edited by Curtis Choy
Narrated by Tamlyn Tomita
Music by Scott Nagatani
Sound - Jane Gorai
Interviewer - Teri Lee
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The title is taken from a poem by Hiroshi Kashiwagi