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Jari Osborne (5)
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Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball StoryJari Osborne 2002 50 minThis feature-length documentary tells the story of the Asahi baseball team. In pre-World War II Vancouver, the team was unbeatable, winning the Pacific Northwest Championship for five straight years. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, all persons of Japanese descent in Canada were sent to internment camps. The former Asahi members survived by playing ball. Their passion was contagious and soon other players joined in, among them RCMP officials and local townspeople. As a result, the games helped break down racial and cultural barriers. This remarkable story is told with a combination of archival footage, interviews and dramatic re-enactments. -
Soldats de seconde classeJari Osborne 1999 48 minDocumentaire explorant le passé de la communauté sino-canadienne de Colombie-Britannique lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Porté par la voix d'une fille reconnaissante, ce documentaire à multiples facettes lève le voile sur une période importante de l'histoire du Canada, mais plus encore, il rend un hommage émouvant à l'héroïsme discret d'un père, ancien combattant.
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Unwanted SoldiersJari Osborne 1999 48 minThis documentary tells the personal story of filmmaker Jari Osborne's father, a Chinese-Canadian veteran. She describes her father's involvement in World War II and uncovers a legacy of discrimination and racism against British Columbia's Chinese-Canadian community. Sworn to secrecy for decades, Osborne's father and his war buddies now vividly recall their top-secret missions behind enemy lines in Southeast Asia. Theirs is a tale of young men proudly fighting for a country that had mistreated them. This film does more than reveal an important period in Canadian history. It pays moving tribute to a father's quiet heroism.
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Picture ThisJari Osborne 2017 33 minWhat does it mean to be disabled and desirable?
In Picture This, a new documentary by Jari Osborne, we meet Andrew Gurza, a self-described “queer cripple” who has made it his mission to make sex and disability part of the public discourse.
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Imaginez...Jari Osborne 2017 33 minImaginez…, le nouveau documentaire de Jari Osborne, nous présente Andrew Gurza, lequel se décrit lui-même comme un « infirme queer ». Andrew prépare la deuxième édition de Justify My Love, une fête fondée sur une approche positive de la sexualité que les médias internationaux ont tôt fait de qualifier d’« orgie entre handicapés » l’année précédente, alors que l’événement se déroulait à Toronto. Au cœur du film, cette pénible dichotomie à laquelle font face les personnes handicapées : l’impression de se sentir à la fois invisibles et stigmatisées, en particulier au chapitre de la sexualité. Le regard insistant et déterminé qu’affiche Imaginez… nous invite à voir au-delà des apparences.
