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American Pastime: The Motion Picture 2007
March 21, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Free
“American Pastime”is a 2007 film set in the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Utah prison camp which held thousands of people during the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Kerry Yo Nakagawa
While the film is a dramatic narrative, it is based on true events and depicts life inside the incarceration camps, where baseball was one of the major diversions from the reality of the internees’ lives.
It won the ‘audience favorite’ in 2007 at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
The discussant at both showings will be Kerry Yo Nakagawa who was part of the film as a producer, actor, behind the scenes filmmaker, author and historian. Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible. 106 minutes. For more information you can call the Center at 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri 11-3.
Screening Times: 1:00 p.m. and again at 6:30 p.m.