The winners of HBO’s first Asian Pacific American Visionaries short film competition will receive their world premiere screenings with an exclusive event at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on April 28th, 2017.
Read MoreErika Vazquez, one of our Communications Associates for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, has a chat with Operations Manager Alvin Nuval. We are still looking for people to join our Festival team as a volunteer, so sign up here!
Read MoreAshes and dust sweep the streets as thousands of Angelenos march loudly. From sidewalks and rooftops, LAPD and National Guard members observe with angst. Banners demanding a peaceful resolution juxtapose memories of semi-automatic weapons firing just hours beforehand. After three days of chaos, much of the city’s hearts and minds—hoping for a direction forward—find an epicenter in Koreatown.
Read MoreLearn about Little Tokyo's rich history and intersection of people of color within Los Angeles in this feature article by Maya Santos and Joel Quizon from Form Follows Function. "Bronzeville, Little Tokyo" is a free program during the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival that will run from April 29-30.
Read MorePress article on the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival by Tim Gray from Variety.
Read MoreRead this piece by Brian Kohaya, a Visual Communications intern who spent time working in the VC Archives. One photo set that really stuck out to Brian was the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Memorial Vigil and March that occurred in August of 1972.
Read MoreApril 4, 2017 – LOS ANGELES Visual Communications (VC), the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts center, announced its program of outstanding films and events for the upcoming 33rd edition of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) running APRIL 27 – MAY 4, 2017. This encompassing annual film celebration is presented across the city of Los Angeles from Hollywood to Little Tokyo to the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles to Koreatown to Westwood to West Hollywood and to Buena Park in Orange County.
Read MoreIn December 2016, we were pleased to receive news from our friends at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences that the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival has been approved as an Academy Award®-qualifying festival for Short Film Awards. Recipient(s) of the Film Festival’s Golden Reel Award for Narrative Short Film will be eligible for consideration in the Animated Short Film/Live-Action Short Film category of the Academy Awards®. Check out the list of films here.
Read MoreIn the spirit of Women History Month, we asked Armed With a Camera (AWC) 2017 Fellow, Alice Hsieh, to share some of her words and wisdom.
Read MoreWelcome to the 33rd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival! After months of anticipation, we are pleased to bring you another exciting eight days of film and events from April 27th to May 4th, 2017 in hopes to create spaces for connection and add to the dialogues of change.
Read MoreThis week our 2017 Armed with a Camera Fellows went to Portland to visit LAIKA Entertainment (KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS, CORALINE, CORPSE BRIDE, PARANORMAN) for a studio tour. The Fellows observed all stages of a working stop motion animation studio, from LAIKA staff choosing different fabrics for costume design, to building the robot mechanisms for the puppets used in the films.
Read MoreFor Women's History Month, we will be acknowledging the different women who have been featured in the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. This year's Festival will run from April 27th to May 4th, 2017, so stay tuned for the lineup! Today we acknowledge Nanfu Wang, Director of HOOLIGAN SPARROW.
Read MoreComedy Dynamics, an independent stand-up comedy production and distribution company, has acquired the rights to its first feature film, buddy comedy pic Chee and T from director Tanuj Chopra.
Read MoreThis weekend marks the 75th Day of Remembrance, commemorating the World War II incarceration of over 110,000 Japanese Americans. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 and authorized the internment of Japanese Americans in ten internment camps across the United States.
Read MoreTicket packages for the 2017 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival are now on sale! Choose from two types of ticket packages: the Festival Ticket 10-Pack or the Festival Pass. Both packages will save you a minimum of 10% on your tickets and you'll get even more of a savings if you're a Visual Communications member! Ticket package sales end April 20th, 2017!
Read MoreCongratulations to the winners of the 2017 APA Visionaries Short Film Competition! Their films will premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in late April/early May.
Read MoreVisual Communications was in Park City, Utah this past weekend for the "Elevate, Incubate & Demonstrate: Advancing Asian American Artists" panel, which featured a thoughtful conversation on the state of Asian Pacific American artists in media.
Read MoreVisual Communications is headed to the Sundance Film Festival this weekend for Elevate, Incubate & Demonstrate: Advancing Asian American Artists. The panel will feature a dynamic conversation with industry leaders on the current and future state of Asian Americans in media. Panel guests include John Cho (STAR TREK BEYOND), Grace Lee (AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY), Justin Chon (GOOK), and more.
Read MoreWe are pleased to herald the New Year with news from our friends at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences that the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival has been APPROVED as an Academy Award®-qualifying festival for Short Film Awards. Now, the recipient of the Film Festival's Golden Reel Award will be eligible for consideration for an Oscar® in the Animated Short Film/Live-Action Short Film category, without the standard theatrical run, subject to compliance with Academy® guidelines.
Read MoreAs part of the ongoing community gathering space TAKACHIZU, Visual Communications will present a two-part screening series to share just some of its award-winning filmography. To wrap up: a Dec. 2 program of lovingly preserved home movies that observes the development of Little Tokyo during two different periods of its ongoing history.
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