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Published in Avenue Magazine, Citizen Feature, June 2004.

Screenplays often sell at meetings that last no longer than the time needed to make a good first impression. For aspiring movie moguls, the trick is getting the meeting. Now, a local filmmaker has come up with a way of making that easier.

Photo: Brent Mykytyshyn

Signe Olynyk, Executive Producer, The Great Canadian Pitchfest

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 Photograph of Mitch Miyagawa from the Nakai Theatre website

In March of 2004, I spoke to Mitch Miyagawa, the award-winning playwright of “The Plum Tree,” which deals with a young man, the descendent of Japanese-Canadians whose properties and businesses were confiscated during WWII, and his attempt to come to terms with the past.

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Photo: Strawbale Garden Shed, Cottonwood Falls Market Memorial Garden in Nelson, BC, Canada, 2008, by Simone Keiran.

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This is an archive of published expository or investigative nonfiction and critical reviews. This journal is affiliated with six noncommercial arts events notice-boards (links provided below.)

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