Gila River and Mama

Gila River & Mama: The Ruth Mix Story, has been nominated for the 41st Annual Northern California Area Emmy Awards under the category of historical/cultural documentary.

The 41st Annual Northern California Area EMMY® Award Nominations were announced Wednesday, May 9th at noon on the internet. The EMMY® award is presented for outstanding achievement in television by The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).

This year 621 English and 114 Spanish entries were received in 59 categories. A minimum of five peer judges from other NATAS chapters scored each entry on a scale from 1 to 10 on Content, Creativity and Execution. (Craft categories were judged on Creativity and Execution only).

The Emmy® statuettes will be presented at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square on Saturday, June 9, 2012. [website]

Congratulations to Producer/Director/Editor/Writer Claire Mix, Executive Producers Charles Class, Hayao Shishino and Ben Tonooka, Director of Photography Ben Ferrer (TransVideo Studios), and to everyone involved in the production.

“Gila River and Mama: The Ruth Mix Story” will air on the award winning Midpeninsula Community Media Center channel several times over the period of Saturday, November 5th through Saturday November 12th.

Located in the Silicon Valley area, The Midpeninsula Community Media Center serves approximately 35,000 subscribers in Palo Alta, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Stanford and Atherton.

“Gila River and Mama: The Ruth Mix Story” will air on November 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 12.

The media center channel will present “Gila River and Mama” on Saturday, November 5, 2001 at 8:00pm on Channel 27.

Encore presentations of this moving documentary will be aired at:
November 6th at 2:00pm and 8:00pm
November 9th at 4:00am and 1:30pm (on channel 28)
November 10th at 11:00pm
November 11th @ 12:30pm (on channel 28)
November 12th at 6:30pm

[Update 12/05/11]
Additional broadcasts have been added:

Wed, Dec 7th at 4:00am on ch. 27
Thu, Dec 8th at 11:00pm on ch. 27
Thu, Dec 8th at 11:00pm on ch. 30
Sat, Dec 10th at 5:00pm on ch. 27

All broadcasts are on channel 27, except as noted above.

Dates and times are also available online at http://bit.ly/uHkuGp.

Live Streams- Watch broadcasts online.
http://midpenmedia.org/watch/stream/

“Gila River and Mama: The Ruth Mix Story” documents the experience of 15 year old Ruth Mix who, with her mother Frida Mix, volunteered as a Caucasian Nurse’s Aid at Butte Camp Hospital at Gila River Japanese Internment Camp in Arizona. History is brought to life through interviews and reenactments, and the emotional tale of Ruth’s time at the camp is an important perspective on these events as witnessed by a young caucasian woman.

For more information about the broadcast, visit this page.

Gila River and Mama: The Ruth Mix Story
http://www.gilariverandmama.com

The Midpeninsula Community Media Center
http://www.midpenmedia.org/

[UPDATE 11/03/11]
• The encore schedule on this page has been updated to include the airing at 12:30pm on Friday November 11th.
• Added link to MidPen Media Center article broadcast promo.

Charles Class attended a day long symposium titled ‘Cast in Bronze,’ Saturday October 22, 2011. The event was held at the Japanese Community Cultural Center of Northern California (JCCCNC) 1840 Sutter (near Webster Street) in San Francisco.

The topic was about the accurate use of terminology as it relates to the wartime incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II.

An amazing array of noted history-makers and experts on the World War II incarceration spoke at “Cast In Bronze – Terminology and Memory of the Japanese American WWII Incarceration Experience”.

Forum organized by the Tule Lake Committee, Japanese American National Library, and JCCCNC.