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Filmmaker and film scholar Celine Parreñas Shimizu, UCSC’s Dean of the Division of Arts, debuts her new documentary at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 12. The feature film 80 YEARS LATER explores the racial inheritance of Japanese American family incarceration during World War II through multigenerational conversations with survivors and their descendants.

At the time. i didnt realize that i would be going to vietnam. my father was republican, i was raised conservative. it was in the 80s that i started to really push into these filmmaking, films like "jfk," progressive films. >> by the way, it is brilliant. i havent seen all of it. i want to watch the whole thing from start to finish. but the stuff i did see, a really shocking piece of american history and i really want people to watch it. to learn about american history. >> it is really not conve...

Immortal movie. let me ask you, you were 17 when jfk was assassinated. where were you? >> i was in boarding school. i believed the official story, it was just part of the sadness at the time. i didnt realize that i would be going to vietnam. my father was republican, i was raised conservative. it was in the 80s that i started to really push into these filmmaking, films like "jfk," progressive films. >> by the way, it is brilliant. i havent seen all of it. i want to watch the whole thing from sta...

I didnt realize that i would be going to vietnam. my father was republican, i was raised conservative. it was in the 80s that i started to really push into these filmmaking, films like "jfk," progressive films. >> by the way, it is brilliant. i havent seen all of it. i want to watch the whole thing from start to finish. but the stuff i did see, a really shocking piece of american history and i really want people to watch it. to learn about american history. >> it is really not conventional, i di...