FUGETSU-DO: A Short Documentary

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The Los Angeles Breakfast Club is bringing friendship to Zoom! Join us for our 95-year-old traditions, songs, and silliness, followed by filmmaker Kaia Rose and a screening of her documentary short FUGETSU-DO. https://fugetsudo.eventbrite.comAbout the documentary: &quot;We had to live the American Dream twice.&quot; Fugetsu-Do is an intimate portrait of a sweet shop that has been an anchor for theJapanese-American community in Little Tokyo since 1903. The ingredients of thebrightly-colored pieces of mochi-gashi that line the shop’s wood-paneled cases include so muchmore than rice flour and sweet bean paste. Mixed inside are stories of joy and pain, traditionand racism, legacy and loss. Survival is never easy; it’s complicated and messy, full ofcontradictions and surprises. In the three generations that the Kito Family has been running Fugetsu-Do, the store has become a memory bank for the community and the stories that lineits walls could not be more relevant in today&#x27;s America.About the filmmaker:Kaia Rose is a filmmaker dedicated to meaningful and curious storytelling who has worked extensively as a director, producer and editor. Her award-winning short documentary, Fugetsu-Do, an intimate portrait of a 117-year-old Japanese sweet shop, is currently playing festivals around the world. Kaia is the creator and director of Climate Countdown, an award-winning web-series that maps out the ecology of climate solutions, and has written, filmed and edited hundreds of videos that promote climate consciousness and action. As a freelance filmmaker, she has created video content for such organizations as the United Nations, The Juilliard School, 350.org, Rachel’s Network, and the World Bank. She has also edited numerous independent short narrative and documentary films and was an editor and archive manager on the PBS documentary Power to Heal, exploring how Medicare helped desegregate American hospitals in the 1960s. For many years she was the lead producer and studio manager at the BAFTA-winning production company ArthurCox in the UK, where she produced animated commercials, shorts, TV shows and feature films for such companies as Disney Jr, Aardman Animations, the BBC, Creative England and 20th Century Fox TV. Kaia is a graduate of the University of Bristol and currently the Multimedia Content Lead at Connect4Climate, World Bank Group. For more, visit kaiarose.com.Follow the film:Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FugetsuDoFilmTwitter: https://twitter.com/kaiaderose Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_kaia.rose_/ https://fugetsudo.eventbrite.comLos Angeles Breakfast Club meetings begin promptly at 8:00am. After the program&#x27;s conclusion at 9:00am, remain in the Zoom as long as you like to chat and make new friends! Your $5 ticket helps our historic club thrive. We thank you in advance for joining us!

FUGETSU-DO: A Short Documentary

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