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Heart Mountain Premiere
July 11, 2011
Steven Okazaki's ALL WE COULD CARRY premieres at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming on August 20, 2011. The short film explores a disturbing chapter in American history when the President and the nation let hysteria and racism override the Constitution. Twelve Nisei, children and young adults at the time, tell the story of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center where 14,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II.
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Impossible Guitars
April 18, 2011
Taking a break from ultra-serious films, Steven Okazaki's first music documentary, APPROXIMATELY NELS CLINE, is a 30-minute film on Nels Cline, best known as the lead guitarist of Wilco and one of the most gifted and adventurous musicians on earth. It features an evolving roster of brilliant musicians — bandmates Scott Amendola and Devin Hoff, and special guests Carla Kihlstedt, Ron Miles, Yuka Honda, Ben Goldberg and Matthias Bossi.
CONSCIENCE on HBO
July 8, 2009
Steven Okazaki's THE CONSCIENCE OF NHEM EN had its television premiere on HBO on July 8, 2009, at 8pm. The Academy Award®-nominated short documentary looks at silence and complicity through the haunting story of a young Khmer Rouge soldier who took ID photos of thousands of innocent people before they were killed. The Huffington Post called it "important, powerful and terrifying."
"White Light/Black Rain" Wins Primetime Emmy
September 13, 2008
WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN won television's most coveted prize, a Primetime Emmy for "Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking." Accepting the award, filmmaker Steven Okazaki stated that the film "honors fourteen Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors who remind us of the irreversible horror of nuclear weapons." He thanked HBO Documentary Films, Executive Producers Sheila Nevins and Robert Richter, and Supervising Producer Sara Bernstein.
Okazaki's Fourth Oscar Nomination!
January 22, 2009
The Academy Award® nomination for "Best Short Documentary" for the THE CONSCIENCE OF NHEM EN makes Steven Okazaki a four-time nominee. In 1986, he received his first nomination for his groundbreaking feature documentary UNFINISHED BUSINESS. In 1991, he won the Oscar® for his short documentary DAYS OF WAITING, the story of Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned with the Japanese Americans during World War II. In 2006, he received his third nomination for THE MUSHROOM CLUB, which looks at the city and people of Hiroshima sixty years after the atomic bombing.
Big in Banff
JuNE 9, 2008
The Variety headline read "'Black Rain' Storms Banff" as WHITE LIGHT/BLACK RAIN won three prizes at the Banff World TV Festival's Rockie Awards at a ceremony at the Fairmont Hotel in Alberta, Canada. The HBO documentary nabbed the international festival's Grand Prize, the History & Biography Award, and the "NHK Best Asian Program" Award.