Summertime is usually an exciting time for Visual Communications, as we bring aboard students from different schools to be part of the VC Family. Learn more about our Archives Intern Joey Scher, who comes to us from the School of Art Institute of Chicago.
Read MoreSummertime is usually an exciting time for Visual Communications, as we bring aboard students from different schools to be part of the VC Family. Learn more about our Getty Multicultural Exhibitions Associate Farrah Su, who comes to us from Chapman University.
Read MoreVisual Communications (VC) is honored to have outstanding support for our programs, and is exceptionally pleased to welcome prestigious animation studio LAIKA as a sponsor for the ARMED WITH A CAMERA FELLOWSHIP FOR EMERGING ARTISTS (AWC) and the 2017 Edition of the LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL (LAAPFF). LAIKA's visionary support bolsters VC's enduring commitment to nurturing the next generation of Asian American & Pacific Islander media artists, as well as deepening the Festival's impact on our communities.
Read MoreIn a press statement released July 7, the California Arts Council has announced a grant award of $56,000 to Visual Communications as part of its Creative California Communities program. The grant will be utilized to expand FfF Interactive Little Tokyo!, a multi-format transmedia project that was a highlight of the 2016 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Visual Communications was one of only forty-one grantees statewide for this program.
Read MoreSummer 2016 heats up as Visual Communications announces a busy slate of summertime screening events in and around our home here in Los Angeles Little Tokyo. There's something for everyone, from a highly-anticipated Sundance Film Festival award-winner in co-presentationship with one of our long-running community partners, to the Los Angeles Premiere screening of a brand-new work by a longtime member of the extended VC family. And did we mention that our annual Summer Interns Screening Event and Party is on tap as well? Let us stop talking about it, let's show you what's in store.
Read MoreVisual Communications proudly presents, “Uprooted from the Scenes”, the 10th installment of the Summer Intern Screening Exhibit. Curated by this year’s summer interns, “Uprooted from the Scenes”, showcases a myriad of works by Asian American and Pacific Islander filmmakers that were a part of the 32nd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the directors and a post-reception with food and drinks as well as an opportunity drawing.
Read MoreCongrats to Tanuj Chopra for winning the Special Mention for Comedy Jury Award for CHEE AND T at the 2016 LA Film Festival! Executive produced by Visual Communications through the VC Film Development Fund, CHEE AND T is a film about two brown debt collectors who are tasked with making sure their boss' nephew is presentable for his engagement party by day’s end.
Read MoreIn the new buddy comedy “Chee and T,” the titular pair (Sunkrish Bala and Dominic Rains) are debt collectors stuck living in Silicon Valley; they spend their time kicking down doors and chain smoking the day away. When their boss Chee’s Uncle Rob, a wealthy landlord-tycoon, task the two guys to get his nephew Mayunk (Asif Ali) a suit and a haircut before his upcoming engagement party. Unfortunately, Mayunk is a lot wilder than they previously anticipated with a penchant for acquiring and consuming drugs.
Read More‘Everything Before Us,’ which opened the L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival on April 23, will be released worldwide on Vimeo June 3.
Popular Youtube outfit Wong Fu Productions’ first feature film, Everything Before Us, will be released worldwide June 3 exclusively on Vimeo on Demand, it was announced this morning. The film first debuted theatrically on April 23, during the L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival held in Los Angeles, and can be preordered now on Vimeo.
Read MoreDiane Tsai from TIME goes behind the scenes of EVERYTHING BEFORE US.
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