A Long March (2022) is a PBS documentary about Filipino American veterans of World War II seeking to regain their place in history and restore their identity as veterans of the United States. The story highlights in historical context the legal issues they have faced from the administrative bureaucracy of the U.S. government to the Federal Courts. It is a revealing look at how the United States conscripted Commonwealth Filipino forces to defeat World War II Axis powers – then denied hundreds of thousands of veterans recognition for honorable service.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion that will draw upon the Filipino American experience to consider issues relating to the Asian American experience in historical and legal perspective.
Event Organizer: Center for Japanese Legal Studies
Co-Sponsors: Weatherhead East Asian Institute, APALSA and Nihon Horitsu Kenkyukai (NHK).
Registration is required to access Jerome Greene Hall
Panelists
T.S. Botkin is Principal of ätɘr+flix and has a list of credits including producing and directing the documentary “A Long March” (2021) and co-producing award-winning documentaries “Her Turf” (2018) and “Mary Janes: The Women of Weed” (2017). She currently sits on the board of Women in Film and Media Colorado.
Anna Mercado Clark Esq., CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP is a partner at Phillips Lytle LLP and is co-leader of Phillips Lytle’s Technology Industry Team. Anna is President of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and a founding member of the Filipino American Lawyers Association of New York. She is also on the Board of the Asian American Bar Association of New York and is the Northeast Regional Governor of NAPABA. She is an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law.
Sheila Coronel is the Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism and Director, Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. Professor Coronel has written and edited more than a dozen books on the Philippines, freedom of information and investigative journalism.
Bert Huang is a professor at Columbia Law School and was a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. He received his A.B., J.D., and Ph.D. from Harvard University and served as president of the Harvard Law Review.
Nobuhisa Ishizuka (Moderator) is Executive Director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School. Mr. Ishizuka has a B.A. from Columbia College and a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law, where he was senior editor of the Columbia Law Review.
