Worldwide Advanced Screening of
"Our American Family: The Furutas"
Saturday, February 21, 2015 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Screening is approximately 30 minutes, with a discussion and Q & A afterward with the producers, family members and Historic Wintersburg
Tateuchi Democracy Forum
Japanese American National Museum
111 N. Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
"Our American Family: The Furutas" (Historic Wintersburg) will begin airing on public television stations across the country this spring. This program shares the history of the Furuta family's arrival in America in 1900 through the mid 1900s, post World War II.
Historic Wintersburg, Huntington Beach, CA, provided background, research and assistance with the film production, featuring five-generations of oral histories, archival photographs and interviews with the Furuta family, beginning upon the arrival of Charles Furuta in America in 1900.
In addition to the 1982 oral history of Yukiko Furuta, film makers utilized research, oral histories, and images provided by Historic Wintersburg, the California State University Fullerton Center for Oral and Public History, one-on-one interviews with Furuta family descendants, and personal photographs from the Furuta family.
Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach is considered significant American history and was named one of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in 2014 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Free admission. Seating is limited.
Advanced screening is co-presented by Historic Wintersburg, PBS Socal and JANM.
For more information visit Historic Wintersburg website.
