UPCOMING SCREENINGS
There will be several opportunities to see ONE FIGHTING IRISHMAN in your area. The film, narrated by George Takei, tells the story of SF attorney Wayne Mortimer Collins, a fearless advocate whose anger and sense of justice fueled his 23-year court battle to recover U.S. citizenship for more than 5,500 Japanese Americans forced to renounce under duress while imprisoned at the turmoil-ridden Tule Lake Segregation Center, considered the worst of the ten U.S. concentration camps.
Sunday, August 10, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
Japanese American Community and Cultural Center of Northern California
1840 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Free film screening with filmmaker Sharon Yamato, panel members Wayne Merrill Collins, Tule Lake Committee chair Hiroshi Shimizu, and Tule Lake descendant Sadako Kashiwagi joining for a lively discussion following the screening.
Saturday, August 2, 2025, 10:00 a.m.
North Carolina Film Festival
New Bern Civic Theatre
414 Pollock Street
New Bern, NC 28560
Tickets available here
Featured in the Documentary Program, this screening is in honor of North Carolina resident historian/scholar Donald Collins. Collins passed away earlier this year but was an active supporter of the film, having provided material and audiotapes of his interviews with Wayne Collins acquired during his research on Tule Lake for his landmark Tule Lake book, Native American Aliens.
Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza
251 South Olive Street
Los Angeles, CA
Sponsored by the Criminal Courts Bar Association, the screening will feature a panel of prominent Los Angeles judges and lawyers (TBA),
Sunday, February 9, 2025, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Berkeley Historical Society and Museum
1931 Center Street
Berkeley, CA 95818
Featured as part of the exhibition, “Roots, Removal and Resistance: Japanese Americans in Berkeley.” the screening will feature a panel discussion with Wayne Collins’s biographer, Charles Wollenberg, and other special guests.
Saturday, February 22, 2025, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Buddhist Church of Sacramento
2401 Riverside Blvd.
Sacramento, CA
Following the screening, a panel of prominent Tule Lake survivors will be featured.
Sunday, March 30, 2025, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Buddhist Temple of San Diego
2929 Market Street
San Diego, CA
FILM PREMIERE
We held the premiere of my short documentary, ONE FIGHTING IRISHMAN (Wayne M. Collins and the Tule Lake Segregation Center) in October 2024 to a packed house at the Tateuchi Auditorium of the Japanese American National Museum. George Takei, who narrated the film, was on hand to answer questions, as was attorney Wayne Merrill Collins, son of the film’s protagonist.
