Honouliuli National Historic Site is pairing up with Honolulu Museum of Art to bring you "Voices Behind Barbed Wire", the second in a series of three films by Kinetic Productions that tell the stories of Japanese Americans in Hawai'i and will have special one-day screenings at the Doris Duke Theatre. Free tickets are available to the movie, courtesy of Pacific Historic Parks (see event details below).

While the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II has been well documented on the continent, new information about the sites and untold stories continue to emerge from Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i who endured this dark chapter of history. Voices Behind Barbed Wire: Stories of Hawai‘i explores the personal stories of Japanese Americans on O‘ahu, Maui, Kaua‘i, and Hawai‘i Island., They talk about their initial arrests, their transfer and interrogation, and incarceration in faraway places like New Mexico, Arkansas, and Arizona. The film also takes an archeological journey through nineteen former WWII confinement sites in Hawai‘i and the relevance of history upon civil liberties today.

Presented by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i. Original film sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, Monsanto Hawai‘i, The Freeman Foundation, and the Kama‘āina Fund of the Hawai‘i Community Foundation.

The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Carole Hayashino, the former President/Executive Director of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, author Tom Coffman who wrote a book on how Hawaiʻi protected its Japanese American population from mass incarceration, and writer-director Ryan Kawamoto.

Photo courtesy of Kinetic Productions