For filmmaker Julia Morizawa, learning about her grandparents she’d only seen in a black and white photo meant coming face-to-face with the horrors of the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, and how asking questions and confronting the past is the only way to keep tragic events from being lost to history and possibly happening again.
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The short, part of the festival’s May 7 ‘Lost and Found’ animation program, tells a young girl’s story of discovering her mother’s survival of the 1945 Tokyo Firebombing.
Victim Eva Benitez recounted the terrifying and unprovoked assault at 3:45 p.m. last Thursday as she rode with 8-year-old son Joshua on the downtown train, where she was playing “Candy Crush” as her son sat in the next seat.