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Its hard enough getting a screenplay picked up or let alone looked at in Hollywood. A hustle and bustle industry at best, Directors and Producers are speaking with studio heads on budgets, and casting either the next super star or soon to be A-lister. Film festivals are relying on the underdogs, and Indies and foreign films are somewhat trampling the commercial blockbusters when it comes to creative and expressive freedom. With so much going on in the real world of film, there is a new generation of filmmakers in line to take over the silver screen.

Film Students Mitsuyo Miyazaki, Michelle Peerali, Gabriel Blanco, and Jacob Halajian, are making TSUYAKO, a USC graduate thesis film that is being prepared to shoot in Japan during the Spring of 2010.  The trepidation? Four student filmmaker’s, trying to raise enough money to make this film a reality.  

Director, Mitsuyo Miyazaki, is a third year graduate student at USC School of Cinematic Arts, and a native of Osaka, Japan. In the beginning of 2009, she visited her home in Osaka to celebrate the 10^th anniversary of her grandmother’s passing. This visit was the inspiration point of what is to come with this collaboration.

Mitsuyo found a box of old photographs that none of her family members had ever seen before, and a side of her grandmother she had never imagined. As she thumbed through those photographs, she came to the realization that her grandmother had a female lover.  Understanding the kind of life her grandmother had to follow during Post Occupational Japan, and the kind of woman that she was, Mitsuyo felt a strong message coming from above, and was compelled to write this story.

Both Mitsuyo and the producers involved come from a multi-cultured background, mostly all first-generation Americans. The team came together through recognizing each other’s unique talents and sensitive approach to film making along with the desire to tell stories that are often blanketed within the shadows of the mainstream. A story of this subject matter could not have been expressed, 60 years ago in Japan, during a time where there was so many restrictions, let alone within a culture that has pride itself with the conforms of a traditional family structure. At this time in history, we are more unified and have artistic freedom with various outlets and media platforms

In order for the students to make this project come together, they need support from people, who ultimately believe in them and the project. Any contribution to the project will be recognized by credit at the end of the film. A donation of money may also be tax deductible to you or your organization if you send it to our fiscal sponsor. For more information please contact:

www.TsuyakoTheFilm.com

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