VC Connect #5: Claiming A Voice
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Welcome to VC CONNECT, an online destination through which just some of the hundreds of films and media productions created by Visual Communications can be found for your enjoyment. Featured films include some of our VC Classics, as well as films made in the Digital Histories production program for older adults and the Armed With a Camera Fellowship for Emerging Artists. Each week, we’ll roll out a new batch, specially themed for our audience’s diverse cinematic palate. Click here to watch the complete showcase.
The next few releases are special, as these works will be part of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Virtual Showcase in May. The LAAPFF Virtual Showcase aims to highlight artists whose stories are critical at this moment. From celebrating our histories and cultures, to mobilizing our communities to be socially and politically active, we are looking forward to presenting FREE films and panels to keep us connected. We will be hosting Monday Nite VC, where we discuss these films with the Visual Communications family.
CLAIMING A VOICE: THE VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS STORY
Directed by Arthur Dong, CLAIMING A VOICE: THE VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS STORY is a documentary chronicling the first twenty years of Visual Communications. Combining interviews with clips from over twenty Visual Communications films, this video traces the important role alternative media played in the Asian American movement. CLAIMING A VOICE shows how one grassroots organization survived budget cuts, Hollywood, and the collective process of the sixties to control their own images. The stories of Visual Communications members along with those of jazz fusion band Hiroshima, poet Lawson Inada, and actors Pat Morita and Mako are among the many in this documentary which reflect personal commitments to claiming a voice in media.
On Monday, May 4, 2020 at 5 pm PDT, join us for a Monday Nite VC event in an engaging conversation about the survival and collective process of the first arts group dedicated to productions by and about Asian Pacific Americans. Click here to learn more.
