J-Sei At the Movies: A Movie Watch Party!
J-Sei At the Movies 4th anniversary watch party
Friday, December 10, 6:30 pm via Zoom
Can you believe it’s been four years of J-Sei Movie Night — and counting! Please help us celebrate with our dedicated group of movie lovers. We’ll look back over the past year of programs, and also we’ll welcome your ideas for future possibilities in 2022. Hopefully next year we can start to have more events in person and/or hybrid (fingers crossed).
As part of the evening’s festivities, we will watch a film together via livestream (film tbd). While watching, feel free to comment in real time in Chat. After the film, we’ll have a short discussion too. Please join the (virtual) party!
RSVP with “Dec Movie Night” in the subject line.
You’ll receive Zoom information prior to the event.
See you at the movies!
J-Sei Movie Night Bento
December 10 Bento
For movie night, you can order specially made obento from My Friend Yuji. Here are this month’s special movie night offerings:
- Chirashi (mixed cured sashimi fish over akazu shari seasoned rice — will have some type of shellfish and sesame seeds) $40, +$10 to add uni
- Karaage & Potato Sarada (chicken karaage, cabbage & Japanese potato salad) $15
Click on the button below to place your order.
You can pick up your meal at the selected pick-up time at J-Sei on Friday, December 10th. Please remember to wear a mask and observe social distance protocol. Thank you!
To order: When you click on the button above, it will take you directly to a pop-up order form on the My Friend Yuji webpage, where you first select a pickup time. In the next window, click anywhere inside the box frame to open another pop-up and select the number of bento you want to order, then click on “Add item” to close the pop-up. Click the “View order” bar at the bottom to confirm your order and click “Continue to payment” to sign in and pay for your order.
Support J-Sei At the Movies
Thanks to you, J-Sei At the Movies is celebrating its fourth anniversary! We look forward to more creative programming with inspiring Japanese and Japanese American films. We are especially grateful for the up close and personal chats with filmmakers as we learn so much from the exchange.
We welcome any donations to help us offset costs for Movie Night. Thanks for your good energy and support!
SHARON YAMATO is a writer and filmmaker who produced and directed the documentary films Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn; A Flicker in Eternity; and Moving Walls, the latter based on her book Moving Walls: Preserving the Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps. With Nonny de la Peña she created A Life in Pieces and has also served as a consultant for the Japanese American National Museum. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is currently a columnist for the Rafu Shimpo. She graduated cum laude from UCLA with bachelors and masters degrees in English.
CLEMENT HANAMI is Vice President of Exhibitions and Art Director at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles and has been with the Museum since it opened in 1992. He is primarily responsible for the design, installation, fabrication, and maintenance of the Museum’s major exhibits. Clement received his MFA from UCLA in Studio Art with a specialization in New Genres and has exhibited his work in California, New York, and Washington D.C. He was recently selected as one of Art Matters Foundation 2021 Artist2Artist Fellows.
CELLIN GLUCK was born in Wakayama prefecture to American parents Jay and Sumi Gluck. He spent his “formative years” in Japan, except for three years in Iran, where his archaeologist father and textile historian mother’s work took the family.
Matthew Hashiguchi is a documentary filmmaker whose work investigates the diverse experiences, identities, and cultures of American society. His first feature-length documentary GOOD LUCK SOUP was broadcast nationally on PBS World’s America ReFramed, won the Best Local Documentary Award at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, and received a 2016 Documentary Fund Award from the Center for Asian American Media and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. His other documentary work, which has addressed topics such as undocumented immigration, preserving community in post-Katrina New Orleans, and unexpected experiences in the Japanese American Internment Camps, has screened at many other festivals. His current project, AMERICAN DREAMING, is about undocumented immigrants trying to get college degrees in the state of Georgia. He is also associate professor of multimedia film and production at Georgia Southern University.