When You Leave (film)

Dramatic short film mostly set in Minidoka about a small family that is split on the prospect of leaving camp. As the film begins, Yukio, a young man, returns from a stint doing farm labor on the outside. Sullen and quiet, he refuses to tell his family about his experience. But when his sister and mother announce that they have received clearance to leave, he is unexpectedly reluctant. To try to make the camp seem more like home, he begins building furniture. But when he builds a box for his sister's baby shoes, the crisis comes into the open.

Filmmaker Jason Yamamoto made When You Leave as his thesis film at Chapman College. Funders included the Zonta Club of Newport Beach and the Leo Freedman Foundation.

Might also like Half Kenneth " (2008); A Song for Manzanar (2015); One of Many (2006)