We are glad to be in community with artist and graphic designer Vivian Nguyen, who created the beautiful artwork for LAAPFF PRESENTS: HONG KONG GENERATIONS OF CINEMA. Find out more about Vivian and her inspirations behind this artwork! Thank you, Vivian!

The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) announced lineup for LAAPFF PRESENTS: HONG KONG GENERATIONS OF CINEMA, sponsored by Hong Kong Economic And Trade Office, San Francisco (HKETO). The special 1-day showcase will take place on October 15th in Los Angeles, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Ave.

Visual Communications is grateful to have partnered with United Cambodian Community of Long Beach (UCC) and Cambodia Town Thrives (CTT) to present We Are Long Beach: Our Stories, Our Future, a community arts event created to engage and uplift the Long Beach community of Cambodia Town. The event featured screenings of three documentary short films, including the Long Beach premiere of Conversations at the Register (2022), Cambodia Town Thrives (2022) and Cambodia Town: Not For Sale (2019), followed by discussions and activities guided by local community leaders.

We Are Long Beach: Our Stories, Our Future seeks to amplify local voices and movement, and encouraging solidarity around multicultural issues impacting the local community through sharing and discussing personal stories. We are honored and heart-warmed by the presence and stories of the attendees, and to witness connections being made through the films and issues impacting our communities.

Visual Communications seeks to cultivate a rising generation of artists committed to social and political changes and movements, while preserving the legacy and vision of our communities. We seek to support artists who are committed to empowering communities and challenging perspectives through their creative works.

For the 2022 - 2023 cycle, we looked for filmmakers of Pasifika descent, who wish to utilize film to amplify the cultures, experiences, and perspectives of the indigenous peoples of Hawaiʻi, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Guåhan (Guam), Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Sāmoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, and additional islands throughout the Pacific region.

To understand the intention behind this year’s cohort, please read this letter from our Executive Director.

We look forward to creating community with this year's Fellows.

The Durfee Foundation, which “invests in extraordinary people who are making a better LA,” announced the inaugural cohort of Lark Awards recipients. Durfee’s Lark Awards support the collective care and well-being of staff at small Los Angeles-based nonprofit organizations with deep ties to the community. Each organization will receive $30,000 to spend as they see fit to meet the needs of their staff for replenishment. There are 15 organizations in this inaugural 2022 cohort. They are:

Visual Communications’ Historical “Cubes Exhibit” Restored And Debuts As Online Exhibit.

Visual Communications, the nation’s premier Asian American media arts organization, today announced the completion of restoration work of its inaugural production, AMERICA’S CONCENTRATION CAMPS. A mobile photographic exhibit first created as a commission of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), the “Cubes Exhibit,” as the photographic display is affectionately known, represented one of the first instances that the story of Japanese American relocation and confinement during World War II was made widely known to the public.