Meet a VC Intern: Margarita Verde
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Meet VC's new Programs Intern: Margarita Verde! Learn more about her role in the Armed With a Camera (AWC) fellowship, her favorite VC moments, and stay tuned for her TikTok on @vcmediaorg!
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Meet a VC Intern: Kimmy Rice
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Meet Kimmy Rice, VC’s 2023 Archives intern. Learn more about her daily duties in the archives, the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern experience, and her songs of the summer!
Read MoreA Reminder to Love Everyday
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June is over and we are excited to show love to our LGBTQIA+ artists and organizations who continue to share their work and experiences with us year-round.
Read MoreMeet a VC Intern: Bella Kwan
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Meet, Bella Kwan, our 2023 Development and Communications Intern! Learn more about her favorite VC moments, interest in the history of Asian Americans in media, and her favorite food/drink spots in Little Tokyo!
Read More39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Recap
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As May comes to an end, Visual Communications reflects on the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. This year, VC presented 10 days of films and events, from May 4th to 13th.
Read MoreAWC Spotlight | Kristina Wong
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Performance artist, comedian, writer, and Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama, Kristina Wong describes her aesthetic as “subversive, humorous, and endearingly inappropriate”, Wong employs humor to address difficult subjects, social issues, and amplify marginalized experiences.
Read more about how AWC shaped the future of Kristina’s performance work and what projects she has been working on.
Read MoreVisual Communications Receives 2023 NEA Grant for Arts Projects
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced the first round of recommended awards for fiscal year 2023, with more than $34 million in funding to support the arts nationwide. This is the first of the NEA’s two major grant announcements each fiscal year and includes grants to organizations through the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects, Challenge America, and Research Awards categories. Visual Communications is grateful to be a recipient of the 2023 Grants for Arts Projects Award to support the Los Angeles Asian American Pacific Film Festival.
Read MoreWe Went to Hawai'i!
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As part of our growing practice to center wellness and joy, Visual Communications Staff and Armed With a Camera Fellows took a renewal trip to Hawai'i.
“I loved connecting with people in a relaxed and casual atmosphere. It was really important as I came away, not only feeling closer to everyone, but also really valuing the community we have and inspired to keep building community.”
Read MoreMeet a VC Intern: Kathy Ou
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Meet Kathy Ou, our 2022 LACDAC Development and Communications Intern! Learn more about her roots in southern China, her curiosity for Asian American history and communities, and her latest obsession with a Chinese dance show!
Read MoreMeet a VC Intern: Cindy Nguyen
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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 a VC Intern: Jenny Park
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Meet 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 MoreHighlights of the 2021 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
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After 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 MoreWelcome to the 37th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
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We 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 MoreVisual Communications Announces Dates for the 37th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival September 23 to October 2, 2021
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The 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 MoreSpeak Out for Justice: Little Tokyo Towers Evening Session
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On 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 a VC Intern: Jason Tiangco
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Meet 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 MoreSpeak Out for Justice: August 6, 1981
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August 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 MoreRemembering Janice Mirikitani
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Janice 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 MoreSpeak Out for Justice: August 5, 1981
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August 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 a VC Intern: Zen Tran
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Meet 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.
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