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Steven Okazaki, the Glossary

Steven Toll Okazaki (born March 12, 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker known for his raw, cinéma vérité-style documentaries that frequently show ordinary people dealing with extraordinary circumstances.^[1]

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American film directors of Japanese descent
Directors of Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
Venice High School (Los Angeles) alumni

Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film

This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short film.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.

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Black Tar Heroin (film)

Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street is a 1999 television documentary film directed by Steven Okazaki.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Churchill Films

Churchill Films aka Churchill Media was a producer and distributor of direct-to-video/educational films founded by Robert Churchill (1902-1998) and Sy Wexler (1916–2005) in 1948 as Churchill Wexler Film Productions.

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Cinéma vérité

Cinéma vérité (truth cinema; "truthful cinema") is a style of documentary filmmaking developed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov's theory about Kino-Pravda.

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Cinemax

Cinemax (alternatively shortened to Max) is an American pay television, cable, and satellite television network owned by the Home Box Office, Inc. subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo

Days of Waiting (1991) is a documentary short film directed, written and produced by Steven Okazaki about Estelle Ishigo, a Caucasian artist who went voluntarily to an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Estelle Peck Ishigo

Estelle Ishigo (July 15, 1899 – February 25, 1990), née Peck, was an American artist known for her watercolors, pencil and charcoal drawings, and sketches.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Hibakusha

Hibakusha (or; 被爆者or 被曝者; "survivor of the bomb" or "person affected by exposure ") is a word of Japanese origin generally designating the people affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States at the end of World War II.

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Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.

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Independent film

An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies (or, in some cases, distributed by major companies).

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Internment of Japanese Americans

During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country.

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Living on Tokyo Time

Living on Tokyo Time is a 1987 film written and directed by Steven Okazaki and starring Minako Ohashi and Ken Nakagawa.

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Mifune: The Last Samurai

Mifune: The Last Samurai, also known as Mifune, is a 2015 biographical documentary directed and co-written by Steven Okazaki.

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Nagasaki

, officially known as Nagasaki City (label), is the capital and the largest city of the Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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NHK

, also known by its romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster.

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Nisei

is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the ethnically Japanese children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants (who are called Issei).

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Peabody Awards

The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor what are described as the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in all of television, radio, and online media.

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Peggy Orenstein

Peggy Orenstein (born November 22, 1961) is the author of the ''New York Times'' bestsellers Boys & Sex, Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy, as well as Don’t Call Me Princess, Flux, and the classic Schoolgirls.

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Primetime Emmy Awards

The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

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San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco.

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Short film

A short film is a film with a low running time.

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Skouras Pictures

Skouras Pictures was an American independent movie distribution company that was founded by Tom Skouras in 1983.

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Strand Releasing

Strand Releasing is an American film production company founded in 1989 and is based in Culver City, California.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute.

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The Conscience of Nhem En

The Conscience of Nhem En is a 26-minute documentary directed by Steven Okazaki, telling the stories of three survivors of the Tuol Sleng Prison.

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The Mushroom Club

The Mushroom Club is a 2005 documentary short subject, directed by Steven Okazaki.

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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (translit), or simply Tuol Sleng (ទួលស្លែង, Tuŏl Slêng; lit. "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill"), is a museum chronicling the Cambodian genocide.

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Unfinished Business (1985 American film)

Unfinished Business is a 1985 documentary film directed and produced by Steven Okazaki.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Venice, Los Angeles

Venice is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles within the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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WGBH-TV

WGBH-TV (channel 2), branded GBH or GBH 2 since 2020, is the primary PBS member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is an HBO documentary film directed and produced by Steven Okazaki.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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81st Academy Awards

The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2008 and took place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Okazaki

Also known as Okazaki, Steven, Steven Toll Okazaki.

Steven Okazaki, the Glossary

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See also

American film directors of Japanese descent

Directors of Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners

Venice High School (Los Angeles) alumni

References