VC Connect #9: Love is Love
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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.
Love is Love
Thanks to our intrepid Digital Histories and Armed With a Camera filmmakers, the broad range of expressions (and complexities) of love occupies an honored place within the scope of our storytelling. Whether traditional or non-traditional, these works affirm that when it comes to love, there truly are no boundaries or walls between the ones we care about.
Thank you to the following sponsors for their ongoing support of the Armed With a Camera Fellowship: Sony Pictures Entertainment, SAGindie, West One Music Group, Final Draft, Los Angeles County Arts & Culture, Flash Cuts, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Writers Guild of America West.
Thank you to the following sponsors for their ongoing support of the Digital Histories program: Sony Pictures Entertainment, West One Music Group, Keiro, Union Bank, and Aratani Foundation.
AND GOD LOVES GAYS, TOO! (2009) by Michi Tanioka
Questioning your faith is a healthy part of every religion.
GIO: A MAN WONDERFULLY CREATED (2015) by Michi Tanioka
Gio shares his story about what it was like to grow up gay in a religiously conservative Deep South community. After a confusing childhood, a tumultuous young adulthood, and struggling to find someone with whom to share his future, he finally finds a supportive community.
HONORABLE SON (2006) by Jay Esguerra
A Filipino American son decides to interview his parents on why they don't talk about his gay identity at home. By doing so, he gets an intense and revealing glimpse of his parents, which forces him to delve into his own personal life to find truth.
THE LOVE REMAINS (2013) by Angela Park
Charged with spreading the ashes of her dead girlfriend, Lena struggles against a flood of unwanted memories. The gnawing memories force her into dealing with her grief in hauntingly unpredictable ways.
MY CHILD IS GAY (2010) by Harold Kameya
The story of a family that supported their daughter’s sexuality, and their experiences in speaking out about it in the often conservative Asian American community.
NUOC (2016) by Quyen Nguyen-Le
A Vietnamese American teen attempts to piece together and understand their mother's experience as a Vietnam War refugee. The journey pulls us into a fantastical series of iconic historical photographs and images, ultimately highlighting the complexity of fully understanding others' experiences — and opens up possibilities for building relationships based on presence and co-existence.
STILL LIFE WITH (2011) by Ami Patel
A young South Asian woman faces the banalities of another day, except that it’s the Hindu New Year, a day of introspection and renewal. The experience of jilted communication with her parents sits heavy in her heart as she examines her love of self, partner, and family.
TIFFANY – THE ART OF COMING OUT (2017) by Michi Tanioka
A young Christian woman who spent many years hiding her sexuality shares her struggles with coming out as gay, and how it has brought her closer to her mother.
TO SIT WITH HER (2014) by Nicole Miyahara
Leon Wu is a Taiwanese American transman who is exploring his parents’ home country of rural Taiwan — on his own terms. A pilgrimage to visit his 97-year-old grandmother brings unspoken acceptance of his gender identity, in contrast to the complexities of familial relationships back home.
TRANS ART (2006) by Maricar Camaya
The roles of art and performance are examined in the lives of Dominic Madrid, a singer and performance artist, and Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, an artist and organizer of Trans/Giving, Los Angeles’ only performance space for transgender, gender queer, and intersex artists.
WIND IN A BOX (2010) by Tani Ikeda
A young transgender Filipino American named Raf is determined to become the next Babaylan shaman in the family, but must heal his spirit without separating queer identity from Filipino tradition.
