“A Lost Generation” is a graphic film that tells the story of Hayumi Ito and her granddaughter Sakura Ito. Hayumi is struggling to survive as she tries to overcome the unjustly imprisonment of the Japanese Americans by the American government during WWII. 3 generations later, Sakura is going through her own struggles of attaining pop stardom as she feels her Japanese name and culture is hindering her success. Thus, this film is a contemporary critique of the internment camps’ effect on current Japanese Americans’ knowledge of their cultural past. It is also a look at how the different generations struggle with different conflicts. Hayumi has to battle an external oppressor, while Sakura is battling her own psyche.

“A Lost Generation” just won BEST ANIMATION in the Indie Producers Film Festial! (http://indieproducer.ning.com/) This film is an official selection of the Peachtree Village International Film Festival & Downtown Film Festival – Los Angeles and will be premiering at the Frame by Frame Animation Showcase in late September, 2010.