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Article: DOCUMENTARY ON OSWEGO REFUGEE CAMP DEBUTS FRIDAY.(CNY)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- January 24, 2002
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Byline: JOAN E. VADEBONCOEUR ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST
It is the stuff that Hollywood writers crave to put into screenplays. Men, women and children captive behind barbed wire fences on an army base. A congressional investigation. A sitting U.S. President and his first lady. And it all is true.
Six years of labor culminates Friday with the world premiere of "Prisoners of Freedom," the full-length documentary about the refugees housed at Oswego's Fort Ontario during World War II. Filmmaker Owen Shapiro's work has a pair of showings - 7 and 9 p.m. - at Carousel Cinemas.
The jumping off point was his introduction to Ruth Gruber's 1983 book, ...