Redress (film)

Documentary film on the Office of Redress Administration (ORA) based on interviews with former ORA staffers and Japanese American community members they worked with. In addition to an introduction that covers the hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians and the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 , Redress includes a segment on the incarceration of Japanese Latin Americans , and the ORA's difficulties in securing redress for that group.

The film is a product of an oral history project that was instigated by Emlei "Emi" Kuboyama, who was an attorney for the ORA from 1994 until its 1998 sunset. Wanting to document the history of the ORA, Kuboyama attended UC Berkeley's Oral History Summer Institute in 2017, where she met Todd Holmes, a historian with Berkeley's Oral History Center. Through Stanford University, where Kuboyama worked, the Office of Redress Administration (ORA) Oral History Project received a grant from the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program for $72,871. The pair conducted interviews in 2019 and 2020 and subsequently contracted John Ayon to work with them on the film. The interviews are archived in the Densho Digital Repository. ^[1]

Might also like Right of Passage (2014); The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai'i (2012); Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story (2004)