VC Connect #11: When Strangers Meet
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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.
Applications for our 2020-2021 Armed With a Camera Fellowship are now open! Visual Communications is seeking Asian American & Pacific Islander artists with projects that engage themes of racism/anti-blackness, immigration, voting, COVID-19, or other systemic issues. Fellows will participate in a 9 month program that includes mentoring, training, and a cash stipend to create a 5 minute short film that will premiere at the 2021 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Deadline to apply is August 1, 2020. Click here to learn more!
When Strangers Meet
This kinetic selection of works from Visual Communications’ Armed With a Camera Fellowship showcases a broad range of storytelling styles, all in the service of essaying stories about first encounters, chance meetings, and defining revelations.
Thank you to the following sponsors for their ongoing support of the Armed With a Camera Fellowship: , Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Final Draft, Flash Cuts, Los Angeles County Arts & Culture, SAGindie, Sony Pictures Entertainment, West One Music Group, and Writers Guild of America West.
Funding for VC CONNECT has been provided by California Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic stabilization plan of 2020.
CAFÉ ELEVÉ (2012) by Kelly Li
A former ballerina sacrifices her passion in order to support her family, but upon finding an item left behind by a customer, she rediscovers the freedom she once felt and a connection to a person whom she’s never met.
FOR TOMORROW MAY RAIN (2006) by Sandra Chheng
Having grown up not knowing how to form relationships, Gal buys products to fulfill her void. When she sees an advertisement for a pair of yellow rain boots, she is met with an unexpected surprise.
KILL OF THE NIGHT (2013) by Aya Tanimura
A mysterious woman takes a bored, suburban family man for a thrill ride down a desolate country road. Things quickly take a turn when the local Sheriff shows up and begins to question what is really going on.
NOT IN MY BACKYARD (2008) by Lisa Nguyen
The idea of war is explored through the imagination of an innocent little girl living in American Suburbia.
OH MOMMY! (Me Oi) (2007) by Jenni Trang Le
A baby quail emerges from his egg alone and goes on a journey to find courage, warmth, and… his mommy.
RESIGNATION (istifa) (2014) by Rahat Mahajan
In a remote Indian village in Himachal Pradesh, a meek and submissive clerk is humiliated by his boss and the level of insult slips out of hand.
WRECK IT RAJ (2018) by Varun Chopra
A preteen’s zany perspective of growing up awkward and ethnically different in suburban America.
