Meet a VC Intern: Cindy Nguyen
/Meet Cindy Nguyen, our 2022 LACDAC Programs Intern! Learn more about her coming-of-age from SGV to UCLA, enthusiasm for culture and community, and love for window shopping.
Read MoreMeet Cindy Nguyen, our 2022 LACDAC Programs Intern! Learn more about her coming-of-age from SGV to UCLA, enthusiasm for culture and community, and love for window shopping.
Read MoreMeet Jenny Park, our 2022 Archives Exhibition Intern! Learn more about her experience at VC, her passion for art, art-making, and telling and uncovering stories from the depth of history that uplift and empower the AAPI community.
Read MoreAfter a year and a half of virtual presentations, we brought back the 37th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, presented by Visual Communications, to in-person theatres and celebrated the works of seasoned and emerging artists from September 23 to October 2, 2021. The largest Festival of its kind in Southern California and an Academy Award® qualifying Festival for the Short Film Awards, LAAPFF was a 10-day Festival that recognized the works of more than 140 artists, 19 countries, and 34 languages.
Read MoreWe understand that this Festival presentation was not what our artists had imagined when they began creating their projects, with a dream to openly celebrate their films with our communities. To create the Festival’s in-person moments to connect and converge, we are highly focused on protocols and procedures to keep us all safe. We ask you to be mindful and protective of each other. Let us be graceful to one another.
Read MoreThe Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), presented annually by Visual Communications, today announced the first set of films that will screen as part of the 37th edition of the Festival, which will be a hybrid event taking place virtually and in person at select cinemas in the Los Angeles area from September 23 to October 2, 2021.
Read MoreOn the evening of August 4, 1981, NCRR arranged a special evening session at the Little Tokyo Towers in Los Angeles, so that people who worked during the day could attend and participate in the CWRIC hearings. While the testimony footage for this session is incomplete and disjointed, the testifiers provide their heartbreaking experiences of personal loss, trauma, and discrimination.
Read MoreMeet Jason Tiangco, our 2021 LACAC Archives Associate! Learn more about his experience interning with VC, his love for photography, and his dream to change the world through film.
Read MoreAugust 6th, 1981 was the third and final day of the CWRIC Los Angeles hearings, consisting of testimonies from the issei (first-generation Japanese Americans) who chose to testify in Japanese, along with first-hand accounts of internees from Terminal Island. Mental health professionals, educators, and members from various organizations also share the impact that internment has on intergenerational trauma, and demand constitutional remedy through redress and reparations.
Read MoreJanice Mirikitani was a renowned writer and activist who passed on July 29. She was a pioneer in the Asian American Movement and a literary artist who believed that the arts and culture were an integral part of community building. We join with the extended Visual Communications family in celebrating this influential and warmly remembered pioneer.
Read MoreAugust 5th, 1981 was the second day of the CWRIC Los Angeles hearings, consisting of testimonies from Japanese American veterans, many of whom were drafted for World War II as a way of avoiding internment. Other testifiers experienced economic loss, psychological trauma, and discrimination in schools. This violation of basic civil and human rights due to Executive Order 9066 fueled the growing demand for Redress and Reparations.
Read MoreMeet Zen Tran, our 2021 LACAC Marketing & Social Media Associate! Learn more about her experience interning with VC, her love for picnics, and how she likes to tell stories that support and empower AAPI voices in the film industry.
Read MoreThe California Arts Council announced 441 grant awards in project and operational support for nonprofit organizations and units of government throughout the state of California. Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the 2020-21 Arts & Cultural Organizations General Operating Relief Award.
Read MoreVisual Communications is proud to continue our partnership with HBO for the 5th annual HBO APA Visionaries Short Film Competition. Congratulations to this year's finalists: Urvashi Pathania (UNMOTHERED) and Jesse Gi (NEH)! Their films on the theme "Taking the Lead" will premiere at the 2021 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on Sep 25, and debut on HBO Max on Sep 27.
Read MoreAugust 4th, 1981 was the first day of the CWRIC Los Angeles hearings, consisting of testimonies that cover the personal accounts of Japanese American internees, their children, and the wide range of effects stemming from camp experiences due to Executive Order 9066. Testifiers experienced business and property loss, being forced from their homes, feeling exploited, and then being sent home with nothing to come back to. Internees also shared their post-camp trauma and feelings of shame for being Japanese American.
Read MoreMeet Brandon Waldau, our 2021 Getty MUI Archives Exhibition Associate! Learn more about his experience working remotely with VC, his love for board games, and how social movements and critical theory influence his thinking.
Read MoreMeet Hailey C., our 2021 Getty MUI Programs Associate! Learn more about her experience interning with VC, her vinyl collection, and her passion for writing reviews and critiques about East Asian films.
Read MoreMeet Matthew Scarlett, our 2021 Development Associate! Learn more about his experience interning with VC, what’s on his bucket list, and why running competitively brings him joy.
Read MoreThe UCLA undergrads who interned at Visual Communications during their Spring 2021 quarter have endured over a year of remote learning and social isolation. Check out this virtual gallery to see how Leah Janelle “LJ” Isorena, Keana Mataalii, Yang Xi, and Janice Yun have harnessed the power of the creative arts to show us how they are coping with the effects of the pandemic in their respective parts of the world.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to be a recipient of the LA Arts Recovery Fund! As one of 90 nonprofits receiving grants, we are humbled to be recognized as one of “America’s Cultural Treasures,” and are excited to continue serving our community and contributing to the rich cultural fabric and economic recovery of LA County.
Read MoreRacial and sexual violence against marginalized communities have been long standing issues in the United States. These Armed With a Camera films are commentaries on fetishization, violence, and white supremacy that subvert your expectations.
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