Yuki Yoshida

Yuki Yoshida (born around 1914 in Vancouver) was a Japanese-Canadian film editor and film producer. In 1978, Yoshida received an Academy award for I'll Find a Way in the Best Short Film category with Beverly Shaffer.[1]

Life

After her mother's death in 1925, Yoshida did not return to school.[1] Even when the war was over, there was little reason to make up her education. Back then, the chances of getting a job were too uncertain. Moreover, the idea of having a career was unfamiliar to most of the women in Yoshida's generation, especially those who, like Yoshida, grew up in rural Japanese communities.[1] In the summer of 1944, towards the end of the Second World War, Yoshida and her sister left the internment camp in Tashme, British Columbia.[1]

Career in Film

In the late 1940s, Yoshida got a job at the National Film Board of Canada in Ottawa ,[1] where she worked until the mid-1960s as editor of, among others, the films Ducks, of Course (1966) and Tuktu and the Snow Palace (1967). In 1975, she became a technical producer in Studio D, a women's production unit that emerged in response to a directive from the Canadian government for more women in technical professions.[1] Shortly before retiring in 1978, she was a member of the team that received an Academy Award for the film I'll Find a Way. In the film, she processes, among other things, her own childhood memories.[1]

Filmography
  • Ducks, of Course (1966)
  • Tuktu and the Snow Palace (1967)
  • The North Has Changed (1967)
  • The Accessible Arctic (1967)
  • Tuktu and the Clever Hands (1968)
  • Veronica (1977)
  • I'll Find a Way (1977)
  • How They Saw Us: Needles and Pins (1977)
  • Beautiful Lennard Island (1977)

References
  1. Lang, Catherine (1996). O-Bon in Chimunesu: A Community Remembered. Arsenal Pulp Press. ISBN 9781551520360.
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