Center for Asian American Media

“DAYS OF WAITING is a poignant documentary about an extraordinary woman, artist Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned with 120,000 Japanese Americans in 1942. When internment came, she refused to be separated from her Japanese American husband and lived with him for four years behind barbed wire in the desolate Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming. During her internment, the artist recorded the rigors and deprivations of camp life with unusual insight, her sketches and watercolors forming a moving portrait of the lives of the internees, the struggle to keep their health, dignity and hope alive.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“A modern tragedy, an extraordinary love story set against one of the darkest chapters in American history.”

- Chicago Tribune

Awards
Academy Award Winner, Best Documentary Short Subject
George Foster Peabody Award

Recognition
National PBS Broadcast, POV

Other Films in the Collection
Days of Waiting

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