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.[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 incarceration 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)