We are honored that Three Lenses: Born Free & Equal was chosen to receive the prestigious Abel Cine Documentary grant. Abel Cine, one of our industry’s largest suppliers of professional production equipment, began these grants in 2013 “to make sure that… Read More
Early on, our team felt it necessary to put together a short little trailer incorporating some of the earliest footage shot. This is that Trailer. Since completing this, our story has morphed in many directions and today is… Read More
Recently, Three Lenses Executive Producer, Ecar Oden, had the great pleasure of interviewing Retired Colonel Ed Wakayama at his home in Las Vegas. Colonel Wakayama was born at Manzanar and later relocated with his family to Tule Lake, before… Read More
“Yamashita,” Hayley Foster’s award-winning animated senior thesis film, aired as part of the 2014 edition of “Fine Cut,” KCET’s 17th annual festival of student films. A recent graduate of Los Angeles’ Loyola Marymount University, Haley’s award winning film… Read More
Early on, there was never any question in our mind that Internment camps, mass incarceration and the wholesale violation of the rights of a segment of the American population was safely and securely entombed in our nation’s past…. Read More
To date, most of the images our team has discovered of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II have been in Black & White. That is until now. During WWII, Hollywood CA resident, Bill Manbo and his… Read More
On July 8, 2014, the Manzanar Committee submitted its official comments to the Inyo County Planning Department and Board of Supervisors in response to their Notice of Preparation for the Program Environmental Impact Report for their 2013 Renewable Energy General Plan Amendment (REGPA)…. Read More