SLEEPING TIGERS: THE ASAHI BASEBALL STORY (2003)
[5 NOVEMBER – 19 NOVEMBER]
Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story (50 min. 2003) tells the story of the Asahi baseball team, a pre-World War II Vancouver championship team that was interned by the Canadian government after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. This documentary explores how the team used baseball and community as tools of resistance and integration during a period of shameful prejudice in Canada’s past.