Visual Communications, the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts center, is now accepting entries for the 33rd edition of The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, slated for Spring 2017 at select venues in the Los Angeles area.
Read MoreA veteran of the Digital Histories program since 2006, Michi Tanioka has produced a body of documentary works that comment incisively on the world in which older Asian Pacific Americans find themselves. In an interview with Visual Communications Development Associate Connie Oh, Michi talks about her latest film IT AIN'T HEAVEN, BUT CLOSE 'NUFF, and the challenges of negotiating life in one's Golden Years.
Read MoreWhile not one of the original set of fellows who signed on for the Digital Histories program at its inception in 2004, Fran Ito's many short documentaries have proven to be among the most-anticipated offerings at recent editions of The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. How does a woman in her mid-80s keep "pushing the envelope?" In this conversation with Visual Communications Development Associate Connie Oh, Fran shares her perspectives on being creative long into her retirement years, and intimates that there is lots more up her sleeve...
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 LACAC Social Media Intern Kathy Pham, who comes to us from UCLA.
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 Archives Intern Joey Scher, who comes to us from the School of Art Institute of Chicago.
Read MoreVisual Communications, the nation's premier Asian American & Pacific Islander media arts organization, has recently announced its call for submissions for the fifteenth cycle of its groundbreaking Armed With a Camera Fellowship for Emerging Media Artists (AWC).
Read MoreWhile the latest cycle of Visual Communications' Armed With a Camera Fellowship is barely over, already one of our seven 2015-2016 Fellows' productions is attracting heated attention — NUʼÔʼC, an experimental narrative by Quyên Nguyen-Le, whose filmmaking background has been augmented by studies in Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and Politics. In a conversation with VC summer program associate Joey Scher, Quyên talks about the making of NUʼÔʼC and the challenges of applying formalist cinematic languages into short-form filmmaking.
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 MoreVisual Communications Development Intern Connie Oh recently had a chance to ask Digital Histories fellow NJ Nakamura about her short documentary COOK IT YOURSELF, which had its World Premiere screening last April at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Nakamura, a recently-retired oncology nurse, talks about the challenges of her first attempt at making a film, and the excitement of sharing her work with an audience.
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 MoreThe Los Angeles Premiere screening of Andrew Ahn's award-winning SPA NIGHT represents not only a long-awaited opportunity for supporters of this native Angeleno to find out why his debut feature has attracted intense "buzz" since its premiere screening at Sundance 2016 — it is also a homecoming screening for a wide variety of reasons. VC staffer Abraham Ferrer goes past the hype and gets Andrew to talk in detail about his film's placement in the larger arena of Asian Pacific American cinema, as well as the challenges of making a film that is much more than it seems...
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 MoreFrom industry trade journals and metropolitan news, to internationally-minded press, local community organizations and media-savvy blogging collectives, the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival received attention from a variety of journalists, writers, critics and writers. We thank everyone who spilled ink on the people, content as well as the topics which provoked, inspired and/or entertained us during this 2016 edition. And of course, we hope that you – dear readers – will stay tuned for more news about our Festival happenings and other activities in the coming year!
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 MoreThe 2016 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) produced by Visual Communications celebrated it’s closing night of their 32nd edition last Thursday with a filmmaker awards ceremony for the competition films, and the LA premiere screening of the romantic drama PALI ROAD directed by Jonathan Lim.
Read MoreVisual Communications Executive Director Francis Cullado today issued the following statement regarding the Festival Week retrospective screening of Dai Sil Kim-Gibson's SILENCE BROKEN: KOREAN COMFORT WOMEN on Wednesday, April 27, 4:30 PM at the Tateuchi Democracy Forum @ JANM in Los Angeles Little Tokyo.
Read MoreIn the six years since she brought director Leena Pendharkar’s RASPBERRY MAGIC to the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, producer Megha Kadakia has seemingly been a constant fixture at subsequent Festival Week editions. Consider last year, 2015: in addition to serving as Executive Producer for Ravi Kapoor’s MISS INDIA AMERICA (a double-award winner at the Film Festival), she also re-teamed with director Pendharkar for DANDEKAR MAKES A SANDWICH, a droll day-in-the-life short that is being expanded into a full-length feature. Not too shabby for a former UCLA bio-chemistry major whose career shifts into arts management (she served for a time as the Marketing and Communications manager for Artwallah and other multi-cultural arts festivals) have resulted in a rising career as a producer of short and feature-length motion pictures.
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