
MANZANAR DIVERTED: WHEN WATER BECOMES DUST
Screened at 28 film festivals worldwide | BEST DOCUMENTARY - San Diego Asian Film Festival | HONORABLE MENTION - CAAMFEST and Milwaukee Film Festival Asian American, Native American & Indigenous History • California Water & Environmental History • Diversity & Inclusion • Sustainability & STEM • Women’s Studies • Climate Change Date of Completion: 2021 (festival cut) and 2022 (broadcast version) | Run Time: 84 and 52 minutes | Language: English with English & Spanish subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director: Ann Kaneko | Producers: Jin Yoo-Kim & Ann Kaneko An inspired and poetic portrait of a place and its people, MANZANAR, DIVERTED: WHEN WATER BECOMES DUST follows intergenerational women from three communities who defend their land, their history and their culture from the insatiable thirst of Los Angeles. In this fresh retelling of the LA water story, Native Americans, Japanese-American WWII incarcerees and environmentalists form an unex