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Join filmmaker Sharon Yamato for the premiere of her new film, One Fighting Irishman: Wayne M. Collins and the Tule Lake Segregation Center, narrated by George Takei. A conversation with Sharon Yamato, Wayne Merrill Collins, and Brian Niiya will follow the screening.

Yamato’s documentary, One Fighting Irishman, tells the story of attorney Wayne M. Collins whose uncompromising defense of the Constitution drove him to spend years representing over 5,000 of the most maligned Japanese Americans who renounced their American citizenship under duress while imprisoned at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II.

ABOUT THE FILM:
One Fighting Irishman tells the story of San Francisco attorney Wayne M. Collins whose uncompromising defense of the Constitution drove him to spend twenty-three years representing over 5,000 of the most maligned Japanese Americans who renounced their American citizenship under duress while imprisoned at the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II, were vilified by the government and press, and were shunned by their community for their so-called disloyalty. Takei’s mother, an American citizen forced to renounce her citizenship, was assisted by Collins, preventing the family’s deportation and loss of citizenship.

Running time: 30 minutes