inicola writes “We are as part of our university and library strategic plan working on diversity and retention at Azusa Pacific University Libraries.
Because of this we have set up a Summer Diversity Movie Series…
We showed Crash a award winning drama film about intercultural tension in Los Angeles.
Next was a movie “Snow Falling on Cedars” a drama about the struggles of an intercultural couple at the outbreak of WWII. Special speakers included a former editor in chief of Rafu Shimpo, Ellen Endo of the “Go For Broke Educational Organization” and former internee Toshiko Ito, author of “Endure” a novel of historical fiction featuring some of her own personal memoirs of internment.
The third movie was Finding Forrester with Sean Connery and Rob Brown. This was introduced by Dr. Kenneth Waters, faculty and author of:
Afrocentric Sermons: The Beauty of Blackness in the Bible. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1993, and
I Saw the Lord: A Pilgrimage through Isaiah Six. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1996.
The movie Finding Forrester was inspired by the true life novel “A Conferderacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole who as the unexpected genius in the movie was not recognized as a writer. When he could not find a publisher for his finished manuscript he committed suicide. It was only after his mother was able to find a publisher that the book a rather curious autobiographical work won the pulitzer prize, like the character of Forrester in the film.
The last movie will be:
Smoke Signals, a newer comedy about reservation life in the United States and father and son relationships in general. Smoke Signals as a movie featuring Native Americans coincides with a brilliant new display by staff person Irene Molano on Ishi, the last known wild California Indian.
Advertising for this was created by one of the students with a real gift for graphics, so that this project represented all of the office is many ways, hopefully it was a way that we reached out to the entire community and encourage diversity.”
inicola writes “We are as part of our university and library strategic plan working on diversity and retention at Azusa Pacific University Libraries.
Because of this we have set up a Summer Diversity Movie Series…
We showed Crash a award winning drama film about intercultural tension in Los Angeles.
Next was a movie “Snow Falling on Cedars” a drama about the struggles of an intercultural couple at the outbreak of WWII. Special speakers included a former editor in chief of Rafu Shimpo, Ellen Endo of the “Go For Broke Educational Organization” and former internee Toshiko Ito, author of “Endure” a novel of historical fiction featuring some of her own personal memoirs of internment.
The third movie was Finding Forrester with Sean Connery and Rob Brown. This was introduced by Dr. Kenneth Waters, faculty and author of:
Afrocentric Sermons: The Beauty of Blackness in the Bible. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1993, and
I Saw the Lord: A Pilgrimage through Isaiah Six. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1996.
The movie Finding Forrester was inspired by the true life novel “A Conferderacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole who as the unexpected genius in the movie was not recognized as a writer. When he could not find a publisher for his finished manuscript he committed suicide. It was only after his mother was able to find a publisher that the book a rather curious autobiographical work won the pulitzer prize, like the character of Forrester in the film.
The last movie will be:
Smoke Signals, a newer comedy about reservation life in the United States and father and son relationships in general. Smoke Signals as a movie featuring Native Americans coincides with a brilliant new display by staff person Irene Molano on Ishi, the last known wild California Indian.
Advertising for this was created by one of the students with a real gift for graphics, so that this project represented all of the office is many ways, hopefully it was a way that we reached out to the entire community and encourage diversity.”
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