The dominant narrative of the WWII incarceration of Japanese-Americans has been that they behaved as a "model minority," cooperated without protest, and proved their patriotism by enlisting in the Army. Resistance at Tule Lake, a new feature-length documentary from Third World Newsreel (Camera News Inc.) and directed by Japanese-American filmmaker Konrad Aderer, overturns that myth by telling the long-suppressed story of the Tule Lake Segregation Center.

Konrad Aderer (Director/Producer) is a Japanese-American filmmaker whose documentaries have focused on immigrants affected by detention and deportation. His feature documentary Enemy Alien received a Courage in Media award from CAIR and a Pacific Asian Community Alliance Courage Award. His short Rising Up: The Alams screened internationally and in the U.S. at venues including BAM and MoMA. Under his non profit multimedia project Life or Liberty (lifeorliberty.org), founded in 2002, his work has been supported by the Center for Asian American Media, the Open Society Institute, and the NYSCA.