On the closing day of the 33rd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), Visual Communications announced their filmmaker awards for this year’s edition which began on April 27 and concluded on May 11, 2017.
Read MoreNBC Asian America sat down with four filmmakers — Jeff Chiba Stearns (“Mixed Match”), Nadine Truong (“I Can, I Will, I Did”), Robin Lung (“Finding Kukan”), and Tanuj Chopra (“Chee and T”) — during the 33rd Los Angeles Asian Pacific American Film Festival to talk about the challenges they’ve faced when knocking on Hollywood’s gates, what their biggest concerns are when “whitewashing” becomes the focus of films, and how audiences can encourage better representation in the media they consume.
Read MoreA Q&A with Anderson Le, Festival Artistic Director, about THE 33RD LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL presented APRIL 27 – MAY 4TH, 2017 in LOS ANGELES at select cinemas, and from MAY 5 – 11 in ORANGE COUNTY at the CGV Cinemas in Buena Park.
Read MoreThe Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today 44 recipients of its 2017 FilmCraft and FilmWatch grants. Visual Communications is one of the recipients of the grants for the Armed With a Camera Fellowship Program.
Read MoreI hadn’t done a #throwback in such a long time, but seeing how dropping bombs is a recurring theme today, I thought I’d drop a bomb of my own: back in early 2001, filmmaker Justin Lin and Linda Mabalot, our former Executive Director at Visual Communications, struck a modest deal to let VC serve as HQ for the independent feature he was working to get made.
Read MoreThe 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.
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