Defiant to the Last: Resistance at the Tul e Lake Jail\, is a documentary that explores a story of collective resista nce\, revealing the chilling history of the Tule Lake Segregation Center a nd putting a timely\, corrective spotlight on the dissident Japanese Ameri cans who were demonized and punished for speaking out against the false wa rtime incarceration. NR\, 37 mins.\, 2025
\nAfter the documentary Em iko will be in conversation with Satsuki Ina.
\nEmmy award-winning f ilmmaker \;Emiko Omori \;is a longtime Bay Area resident and a San Francisco State University School of Cinema alumna. She was the first fem ale Asian American cinematographer at KQED\, and her most celebrated work\ , \;Rabbit in the Moon\, explores the Japanese American incarceration experience. She also directed Tattoo City\, a documentary on tattoo artist Ed Hardy\, among many other films.
\nSatsuki Ina \;is a license d psychotherapist who has spent her professional career seeking to underst and the long-term impact of collective and historic trauma. She is co-orga nizer of Tsuru for Solidarity\, a grassroots coalition formed to protest c urrent policies that echo and reverberate the racism and hate so resonant of the historical Japanese American incarceration. She has produced two do cumentary films\, \;Children of the Camps \;and \;From A Silk Cocoon\, and is the author of a memoir\, \;The Poet and the Silk Girl.
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