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Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress -- at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. Haikus on a Plum Tree Logline: A film about my Italian family's imprisonment in a Japanese war camp during WWII, blending documentary, puppetry & family history. Elevator Pitch: My film touches upon a still obscure chapter in Japanese history, and does so through the extraordinary experience of the Marainis, a family of important cultural influence in Italy and beyond. My mother, Toni Maraini, and my aunt, acclaimed Italian author Dacia Maraini, were only 2 and 7 years old when they entered the first prison camp in 1943 with their parents, anthropologist Fosco Maraini and Princess Topazia Alliata. My grandmother Topazia’s war diary is the only known and published account of...