Spanning over five years from research to completion, including the challenges of the COVID-pandemic period, our film is now ready to be shared with public audiences. As a community-driven project, my team feels a responsibility to develop a comprehensive impact strategy for our film in its mission to shed light on Canada’s dark history of Japanese Canadian internment and the intergenerational trauma it has caused.
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It was thrilling to see depictions of my childhood forests, Lemon Creek which I visited and the sense of home after our loss of our home in Marpole, Vancouver. Thanks for the nostalgia and blessings.
— Joy Kogawa (Writer, Author of Obasan)
Landscapes of Home gifts audiences a fascinating new telling of the 1940s injustice perpetrated against Japanese Canadians. The lives of its two compelling narrators — Henry Shibata and John Cooper Robinson – criss-cross the ocean, compelling viewers to confront the devastation of uprooting and inspiring hope that displaced people might once again find home.
— Jordan Stanger-Ross (University of Victoria, Project Director of Past Wrongs Future Choices)
2024 Screening at:
Vancouver Asian Film Festival (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Forest City Film Festival(London, ON, Canada)
Toronto Japanese Film Festival (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Momiji Health Care Society (Scarborough, ON, Canada)
EBS International Documentary Festival(Seoul, South Korea)
Title: Landscapes of Home
Format/Genre/Production Country: Documentary, History, Canada
Language: English
Lengths: 55min
Logline: Landscapes of Home is a story about two doctors living in the Japanese Canadian internment camps who lost their homes and identities. (Subjects: Henry Ryusuke Shibata & Stuart Cooper Robinson)
Selected by:
DOC NYC X Voices of Canada Cohort Industry Roundtables, 2022
Supported by:
Story Money Impact Impact Mentorship, 2023
DOC Institute Breakthrough Development Lab, 2022
Hot Docs Canadian International Festival X Netflix Doc Accelerator Emerging Filmmaker Lab, 2020
National Association of Japanese Canadians Endowment Fund – Cultural Development Grant, 2019
Toronto Arts Foundation RBC Newcomer Artist Mentorship Award, 2018
Introduced at:
POV – Canada’s Documentary Magazine – A Tale of Two Canadas, 2024
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Monthly E-bulletin KOKUBAN Volume 2, Issue 5, 2021
NOTES 1 and NOTES 2 written by producer Eiko Kawabe Brown (written in Japanese language) 
