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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]
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]
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]