Don't miss the CineCulture lineup this semester. CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.

"Silent Sacrifice" (2017)
When: 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30
Where: Peters Education Center Auditorium (west of the Save Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center building).

All films screened on campus are free and open to the public. Parking is not enforced after 4 p.m. on Fridays.

Discussants: Local film director Jeff Aiello, Elizabeth Laval with Valley PBS, sansei Kerry Yo Nakagawa and Japanese-American internment survivors Saburo and Marion Masada of Fresno.

Filmed in the Central Valley, Silent Sacrifice by director Jeff Aiello reveals the true story of one of the darkest chapters in America’s past — the relocation and incarceration of Japanese-Americans in 1942. After Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese-Americans and immigrants who called the United States home were subjected to one of the largest violations of civil liberties in our nation’s history. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, and by May nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most legal American citizens, were forced to leave their homes, their schools, their businesses and their lives behind and relocate to military-controlled concentration camps. This documentary focuses on our local history of this tragic past and presents witnesses who might be your friends or neighbors.

Sponsor: ValleyPBS

CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to Fresno State students, faculty, staff and community. CineCulture is also offered as a three-unit academic course (MCJ 179) in the Media, Communications and Journalism Department. The course fulfills General Education Integration Area Multicultural International (MI). For students entering Fresno State Fall 2018, the course satisfies a university graduation requirement.

Fresno State encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact us in advance to your participation.

For more information, contact Dr. Mary Husain (instructor and club adviser) at mhusain@csufresno.edu.