Yuki Yoshida

'''Yuki Yoshida''' (born c.1914) 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.<ref name="auto">{{cite book |last= Lang|first= Catherine|date= 1996|title= O-Bon in Chimunesu: A Community Remembered|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qNEQQW9OR2AC&pg=PA200#q=yuki%20yoshida |publisher= Arsenal Pulp Press|isbn= 9781551520360}}</ref>

==Life== After her mother's death in 1925, Yoshida did not return to school.<ref name="auto"/> 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.<ref name="auto"/> In the summer of 1944, towards the end of the Second World War, Yoshida and her sister left the incarceration camp in Tashme, British Columbia.<ref name="auto"/>

==Career in Film== In the late 1940s, Yoshida got a job at the National Film Board of Canada in Ottawa,<ref name="auto"/> 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.<ref name="auto"/> 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.<ref name="auto"/>

==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)

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== External links == *{{IMDb name|0948952}} *[https://archive.org/details/illfindaway I'll Find a Way] on Archive.org

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoshida, Yuki}} Category:1910s births Category:Film producers from British Columbia Category:Possibly living people Category:Canadian people of Japanese descent Category:Japanese-Canadian internees Category:Asian-Canadian filmmakers Category:Producers who won the Live Action Short Film Academy Award