Event Details
In conjunction with PVLD's extensive celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we'll be screening the 2007 drama AMERICAN PASTIME on a special night--May 17th at 6 PM. Set during the 1940s, when many Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps like the one in the movie, AMERICAN PASTIME follows the Nomura family as they are moved from Los Angeles to the Utah prison camp known as the Topaz War Relocation Center. The film shows the family struggling in their new "home" whilst also using the most American thing of all, baseball, as a larger metaphor of what it means to be an American in the midst of such discrimination.
For more information, please contact Joshua at jpeck@pvld.org or 310.377.9584 ext 214
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.
Event Type(s): Film
Age Group(s): Adult, Teen
