Our American Family: The Furutas of Historic Wintersburg is now available on Amazon Prime in the United States and in Japan!
We worked with the production team for Our American Family---providing research, historical photographs, and on-site filming assistance at Historic Wintersburg---in September 2013. In February 2015, the film premiered at the Japanese American National Museum on the national Day of Remembrance, prior to it airing on PBS SoCal and on public television stations nationally.
Prior to it's debut in 2015, a video trailer was released in 2014, when Historic Wintersburg was named to the America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list by the National Trust for Historic Preservation (watch the video at the March 20, 2017, post on our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/Historic-Wintersburg-Preservation-Task-Force-433990979985360/)
RIGHT: Film actress Takayo Fischer---known for her roles in Pirates of the Caribbean, The Pursuit of Happyness, and Moneyball, among other films and productions---brought to life the voice of Yukiko Furuta for the film, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279137/. We thank Takayo for her gracious contribution to this effort. (Photo, Courtesy of IMDb)
In 2015 and 2016, Our American Family: The Furutas aired nationwide on PBS stations, after Historic Wintersburg was designated a National Treasure (less than 100 National Treasures in the United States, Historic Wintersburg is the first and only National Treasure in Orange County, California).
We are pleased to share the producers' announcement that Our American Family: The Furutas, is available internationally on Amazon Prime! Learn more about the Furuta family and Historic Wintersburg, along with the inspiring stories of four other American families. More information regarding the Amazon Prime release at (United States), https://www.amazon.com/Our-American-Family/dp/B06VXWQX8N and (Japan) https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B06VY6WMNB
Special thanks to the producers of Our American Family: Steve Young, Michael Nolan and Bradford Van Demark. Thank you for recognizing the importance and inspiring story of this American family!
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I've just finished reading The Buddha in the Attic and it made me think of looking up the Furuta family, so well-loved by my own family, the Stinsons, who lived next door to them in Wintersburg. I am so excited to read that there has been follow-up on the family, who so greatly suffered during war time. My mother, Wendy, still living has often talked of her best friend, Kenny. I'd love to tell her about this work. Mary (Spanish & English teacher, currently living in Astorga/León, Spain).
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