 Savannah, GA - Filmmaker and Georgia Southern University Assistant Professor Matthew Hashiguchi and his team are excited to announce the launch of Good Luck Soup Interactive, an interactive documentary revealing the Japanese American and Japanese Canadian experience from the end of the World War II Internment Camps until present-day. The interactive documentary can be experienced by visiting www.goodlucksoup.comon any web-connected computer, tablet or mobile device. Good Luck Soup Interactive utilizes the power of the Internet, new media and web-interactivity to not only tell this story, but to also create a community storytelling approach. Those with Japanese American or Japanese Canadian backgrounds are able share their own cultural experiences through our submission form. The individual stories from different generations, people and places are then organized into a series of seven chapters within our interactive website and when viewed together reflect the universal themes of immigration, integration and identity from the perspective of Japanese North Americans. The accessibility and interactivity of the Internet allows us to showcase and update the diverse experience of those with Japanese ancestry, from past to present, and to educate a broad audience on their unique history and changing identity within North American culture. Good Luck Soup Interactive continually complies this shared experience by actively collecting stories, photographs and information through self-uploaded submissions and curated content. Good Luck Soup Interactive is the first part of a transmedia documentary project that includes both a feature-length film (Good Luck Soup) and a web-based, interactive documentary (Good Luck Soup Interactive). The film will be released in 2016 and focuses on one Japanese American family and their experiences as Japanese Americans in the Midwest after World War II.
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