This event is part of Honouliuli National Historic Site's 10th Anniversary Celebration. Honouliuli National Historic Site is the location of Hawaii's largest and longest-run WWII incarceration site that held 4,000 POWs from Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Italy, and the Philippines, and 400 American citizens, mostly of Japanese descent.

Local Hawaiʻi resident and Director Ryan Kawamoto has created multiple documentaries about internment and incarceration in Hawaiʻi with his production company Kinetic Productions. "Untold Story" originally aired on PBS Hawaiʻi to critical acclaim. Thanks to Pacific Historic Parks, the community will be able to watch the one hour film for free at the Doris Duke Theater at the Honolulu Museum of Art. This special film screening will be followed by a discussion of Honouliuli and Hawaii's internment experience with panel members, including Ryan Kawamoto himself, Carole Hayashino, the former President/Executive Director of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, and Sandi Chang, whose grandfather was held at Honouliuli Internment Camp.

The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans In Hawai‘i, produced by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, written/directed by Ryan Kawamoto, is the first full-length documentary to chronicle the internment experience of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i.

Acknowledgments:
The film was made possible through a lead grant from the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program National Park Service and matching funds provided by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, Island Insurance Foundation, The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and the Japanese American Citizens League - Honolulu Chapter.

Courtesy of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i, The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i

Two more of Ryan Kawamoto's films will be screened at Doris Duke Theater as a part of Honouliuli's 10th Anniversary Celebrations:

Voices Behind Barbed Wire (August 17)
Removed by Force (October 19)