US (1990): Documentary/Short
Days of Waiting is a poignant documentary about an extraordinary woman, artist Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned with 110,000 Japanese Americans in 1942. When internment came, she refused to be separated from her Japanese-American husband and lived with him for four years behind barbed wire in the desolate Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming.
During her internment, the artist recorded the rigors and deprivations of camp life with unusual insight, her sketches and watercolors forming a moving portrait of the lives of the internees, the struggle to keep their health, digniy and hope alive. (Farallon Films)
1 nomination, 1 Award
· Best Achievement in Documentary Short Subjects 1990: Steven Okazaki - Producer