A News Article, by The Eureka Reporter.
A 16-year-old budding filmmaker’s work featured in Young Media Makers 2006 Big Screen Showcase has garnered a Certificate of Merit from the 2006 Future Filmmakers Festival, which was presented by Cinema/Chicago June 16-18.
Young Media Makers founder/director Barbara Domanchuk submitted North Coast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy student Chisa Hughes’ documentary “Working to Survive Behind Barbed Wire: The Nisei Interned” and the film was one of 581 submitted to the festival from across the United States.
The documentary is about the second-generation Japanese Americans, the Nisei, interned during World War II. Her film research included interviewing her grandparents, aunts and uncles and friends, who were all interned.
Hughes made the film at age 14. It was a culmination of a research project, completed during the first semester of her freshman year at the Arcata-based North Coast Prep.
Hughes said that she hopes to educate fellow teens through her film.
"I believe that it's easier for teens to absorb and learn through visual means than through text," she said.
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