Project Description

Active Productions
Story Boldly is in development of a number of feature film and documentary productions.
The Letters Project
The incredible story of the Nisei generation, told through their own words by using the thousands of letters that were exchanged between our brave young men in battle and their families in Hawaii, or locked behind barbed wire in American concentration camps. Through these very personal correspondence, where each word is a family’s desperate attempt to stay connected, we will bring this incredible generation back to life. We’ll feel the heartbreak delivered by a telegram carrying the grim news of another young man who has fallen. We’ll feel the warmth from love letters of relationships that have sprouted in spite of the misery. We’ll tell the entire story of the war, from pre-Pearl Harbor as immigrant families work their fingers to the bone for the American Dream, to the moment our Nisei Soldiers sailed past the Statue of Liberty on their way back home. How they fought hate and unfairness with resilience, determination and, most importantly, courage, and how these lessons still resonate today. This story transcends history and the war and is relatable to anyone dealing with the diaspora we often face being separated from our homes, countries and loved ones.
Narrative Feature Film
Over the last three decades, Story Boldly’s creators have been researching, interviewing and documenting the personal stories of the Nisei soldiers. We have hundreds of hours of incredible and true accounts that need to be told. Story Boldly has a deep knowledge of the rich, complicated, heroic characters that lived and died during this remarkable era, giving us one of the most patriotic plot-lines in American history. We believe these exceptional, and most importantly, true characters can and should be the driving force for this epic production.
We are in the early production stages of a feature film or series that tells the stories of the real Nisei and their families through a revealing, narrative format, while adhering and honoring the truth and legacy of those involved. Our belief is no fiction writer can create a storyline more incredible than the accurate and true story of the Nisei Soldier.
Story Boldly’s deep understanding of the era, the battlefields, the politics and the real-life heroes gives us an enormous advantage to tell this story the way it needs to be told, and with the blessing of the families involved. Our proprietary plot-lines can’t be fully revealed at this time but are well developed and remarkable, thanks to the Japanese American communities heartfelt cooperation and, of course, the little known but mind-boggling accomplishments of some of the greatest heroes our country has ever seen.
