05/02/2026
📣 A FREE screening 🎥 of ‘Our Faces Will Always Be Japanese’ premieres at the Alcazar Theatre at 6pm on Wednesday, May 27! A 45-minute cut of this documentary film explores anti-Asian civil liberties injustices experienced by Japanese-American families living in Carpinteria before Pearl Harbor, chronicling their struggle to obtain their rightful place in post-World War II America.
Part of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History’s Talk & Talkback series, the screening will be followed by a panel discussion between filmmaker Brent Winebrenner and John Fukasawa Jr and Tommy Dyo, both descendants of families featured in the film.
This film was made possible by a 2024 civil liberties grant from the California State Library to the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History. The screening is sponsored by the Friends of the Carpinteria Library – no tickets or RSVP required. Please join us!
For more context about the Japanese-American experience during WWII, check out graphic novels, historical literature, and more during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at Carpinteria Community Library. And tune in to the May 31 livestream of George Takei talking about his graphic memoir ‘They Called Us Enemy,’ part of the One Book, One Coast multi-library community reading program.
