CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.

"Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066" (2018)
When: 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27.
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.

Discussant: Jon Osaki, director

"Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066" by Japanese-American director Jon Osaki is a documentary about false information and racial politics. It shows how the infamous Executive Order 9066 was signed and led to the mass incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. The film exposes the lies used to justify the decision and the cover-up that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Alternative Facts also examines how this miscarriage of justice parallels the current climate of fear, targeting of immigrant communities, and similar attempts to abuse the powers of the U.S. government.

Sponsor: The Central California District Council of the Japanese American Citizens League and the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno.

Coming next: "The River and the Wall" (2019)

Directed by conservation filmmaker Ben Masters, "The River and the Wall" follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands as they travel 1,200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes and canoes. The film emphasizes the urgency of documenting the last remaining wilderness in Texas as the threat of new border wall construction looms ahead. For this film project, Masters recruited NatGeo Explorer Filipe DeAndrade, ornithologist Heather Mackey, river guide Austin Alvarado and conservationist Jay Kleberg to join him on a two-and-a-half-month journey along the Texas-Mexico border. Together, they set to explore these borderlands as well as the potential impacts of a wall on the natural environment. However, as the wilderness gives way to the more populated and heavily trafficked Lower Rio Grande Valley , they come face-to-face with the human side of the immigration debate and enter uncharted emotional waters.

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