2009 / 27:00 / Color / DV, Super16 / USA

Dir: Theo Lipfert

Interviews with survivors, experts, and advocates mixed with footage from wartime newsreels and propaganda films tell the story of the Korean Comfort Women who survived sexual slavery during World War II and continue to fight for an official apology from the Japanese government. Now in their 80s and 90s, the surviving “Comfort Women” recount their personal experiences and articulate their demands for compensation and acknowledgment. “Forced into ‘Comfort,’ Fighting for Apology” traces the origin of the comfort women system from the invasion of China to the end of the war. Set to a haunting score, the film portrays the anger of the surviving women and their advocates against a Japanese government waiting for the women to die.

April 2009 KUSM Montana Public Television (Broadcast Premiere)
April 2009 Crossroads Film Festival, Jackson MS
March 2009 Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose, CA
Feb 2009 Macon Film Festival, Macon, Georgia
Sept 2008 Bozeman Rotary Club Sunrise meeting
Aug 2008 University Film and Video Association Annual conference
April 2008 Ilse-Mari Lee faculty concert
March 2008 Faculty Colloquium, Department of Media & Theatre Arts, MSU