Film Crew Visits

June 2009

A PBS documentary film about Kristi Yamaguchi took the filmmakers to Poston where her father (a former Poston internee) and her mother were given a tour of the site by Ruth Y. Okimoto, from the Poston Restoration Project.

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9/12/09 More info re: PBS film

Konstantinos Kambouroglou worked with John Maggio and Julie Marchesi, who recently filmed at the Poston Internment Camp site for an upcoming PBS documentary. The PBS series is entitled "Faces of America" and features Harvard Professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. exploring immigration and identity through the family histories of celebrity guests.

Producer Leslie Asako Gladsjo and Konstantinos Kambouroglou, Associate Producer of Faces of America for Ark Media are working on the story of skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi and her family's experience during internment. Kristi's father, Jim Yamaguchi, spent his early childhood in Poston and her mother, Carol Doi, was born in Amache. They had not returned to Poston since, and agreed to do it with the filming company.

WANTED: Your Help

Last month we received GREAT NEWS!

The National Park Service has awarded the Poston Restoration Project a challenge grant of $25,994 to record video oral histories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II at Poston.

This grant will support our travel to other communities so that we can conduct interviews.

You can help by nominating former Poston internees. 

Please contact: Dianne K. at diannerd79 at yahoo dot com

The "challenge" grant is means that for every $1 we contribute, the U.S. National Park Service will contribute $2.

Please consider helping us make this challenge by making a monetary donation.

Send your check payable to "Poston Restoration Project"
Mail to our Treasurer, Marlene Shigekawa
956 Hawthorne Drive
Lafayette, CA. 94549-4640
marshige at gmail dot com

Thank you!