Lindsee Diaz
Lindsee Diaz is a filmmaker and writer. She currently works as a Production Coordinator for Public Media Group of Southern California and is an Associate Producer for the series "Lost LA."
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KCET's "Fine Cut Festival of Films" hosted an exciting Mentoring Workshop at Los Angeles Center Studios, sponsored by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
In 1942, Executive Order 9066 required all people of Japanese Ancestry to move to incarceration camps. The hardships from the forced relocation endured well after their return from the camps. After being uprooted from their homes, Japanese Americans had to rebuild. Many moved to the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles where the built a thriving community with Japanese owned businesses and organizations that provided social services, educated Asian youth, and fought for their civil rights.
In uncovering the fundamental imprint of emigrés had on Hollywood, we came across countless images that illustrate their fight against persecution and the communities of artists and intellectuals that were formed in this unfamiliar, and often unwelcoming, place.
California's winemaking industry was built by the labor of its workers.
We spent a year digging through various archives, looking for what killed Los Angeles' Pacific Electric Red Cars. These were some fascinating images we found.