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David Suzuki kicks off his acting career at the Women In Film Festival in Vancouver

Check out this sweet article in the Calgary Beacon!

David Suzuki, Canada’s venerable environmentalist, is passionately pursuing a surprising new venture.  He is acting in a movie called TORA, a film about Japanese internment camps in B.C. during World War II. The 75-year-old signed up for his first acting role ever when filmmakers Wendy Ord and Glen Samuel approached him with their script.

The story follows a woman who inherits a lakeside property in BC’s interior and eventually discovers it was a Japanese Internment camp during WWII. Suzuki plays a guilt-ridden, grieving father still hoping to find out what happened to his 9-year-old daughter who disappeared from the camp in 1942. “Suzuki had always been our first choice for the role and he himself had been interned as a small boy,” Ord says. “So he had a connection to the story.”

During the war Canada interned over 22,000 people of Japanese descent, three-quarters of them Canadian Citizens, “just because we looked like the enemy” as Suzuki’s character says in the film. “It’s one of the darkest chapters in our history,” says Samuel. “There’s a scene or two that may cause some controversy but to David’s credit he didn’t back away.”

A year and a half in the making, the 30-minute film’s a feast for the eyes with stunning scenery and gorgeous cinematography. Produced by Mountain Lake Films and co-starring Kate Bateman, Kevan Ohtsji and Krista Shepard, TORA will simultaneously make its Canadian, Australian and US Festival premieres the first week in March with its world premiere at Women In Film Festival in Vancouver. View the trailer here:http://www.torathemovie.com/web/Trailer.html.

Read more here:

http://www.calgarybeacon.com/2011/03/lights-camera-action-david-suzuki/

http://playbackonline.ca/2011/03/02/david-suzuki-drama-debut-rolls-this-weekend/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=david-suzuki-drama-debut-rolls-this-weekend

TORA!TORA!TORA!

Have you ever heard of the short film Tora?


TORA follows a jaded city woman who inherits a property in BC's Interior and is haunted by a little ghost girl. Jenna discovers through dreams and flashbacks of her new neighbour (Suzuki) that her land was a Japanese Internment Camp during WWII. Parental Guidance: Drug Use


The amount of things that make this short film epic are, well, innumerable, but i'll try and pick out some thing to share:
First and foremost: David Suzuki, man, the man with the environmental plan!

Mr. Suzuki makes a special appearance in this amazing short detailing the injustices suffered by Japanese Canadians in World War II. What a fascinating and deep subject to take on in a short film, and this short does it incredibly well!

Catch this short on:

Sunday, March 6th

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

In the THE ONES WE LOVE Series!
A series of narrative films looking at relationships in love and in families.

Check out a BC LOCAL NEWS article about the film here!
Learn more about the film here!