Unforgettable Face

This well-crafted film tells the heroic, not uncommon story of a Japanese-American soldier who risked his life to fight the Nazis while his own family was locked up in an internment camp back in the United States. It is also the story of a Jewish survivor who will never forget the faces of the Japanese-American army division that saved her from a German death camp.

Nicole Newnham (producer/director) is a documentary filmmaker, writer, and a founder of Actual Films in San Francisco. She co-produced They Drew Fire, a widely-acclaimed film for PBS about the combat artists of World War II, and co-wrote the companion book, which is distributed by Harper Collins. She was associate producer of Eye of the Storm (1997), a cinema verité profile of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan that was distributed worldwide by the BBC. Ms. Newnham has been associate producer and line producer on several US/UK co-productions for Discovery/The Learning Channel, including Wild on the Set (1996), a six-part series on the Animal Trainers of Hollywood; Survivor (1996), a four-part series on the art of survival science; and the Emmy-nominated The Human Sexes with Desmond Morris (1996). She has produced stories about the changing nature of the American workplace for the currently running PBS series, Livelyhood. In 1994, Nicole graduated from the Documentary Film Program at Stanford University. Unforgettable Face was selected and screened that year at the Sundance Film Festival.