The Frank H. Watase Family Media Arts Center has produced award-winning films to enhance the visitor experience for more than a decade. Select works from the video library will screen in the George & Sakaye Aratani Central Hall followed by comments from Watase Media Arts Center staff.

10:30am - Plantation Roots, 1997
"King" Sugar and its plantations recruited Japanese, along with other ethnic groups to Hawai`i as cheap labor in the mid-late 1800s. Plantation Roots shows how vestiges of the plantation experience can still be seen in Hawaii's community, culture, and business.

11:30am - Dear Miss Breed, 2000
Dear Miss Breed tells the story of Clara Breed, a librarian who became a hero to Japanese American youth incarcerated during WWII.

1:00pm - Top of Their Game, 2000
Top of Their Game profiles well known and little-known heroes from diverse sports, different eras, and three generations.

2:00pm - Words, Weavings & Songs, 2002
Words, Weavings & Songs describes how Wakako Yamauchi, Momo Nagano, and Mary Kageyama survived the WWII concentration camps with unrelenting creative expression.

3:00pm - Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray, 2001
Elegant and penetrating, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray positions this immigrant photographer within the canon of American art.