Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Visual Communications is excited to announce that the #LAAPFF2021 Call for Entries is NOW OPEN! Submit your feature or short film for a chance to premiere at the 37th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in September 2021. LAAPFF is an Academy Award-qualifying Festival for the Short Film Awards, so don't miss out on this opportunity for your narrative short to be eligible for an Academy Award nomination! Early deadline is Feb 1st, so get your film in before the price increases! vcmedia.org/submit

#HappyHolidays from all of us at Visual Communications! A pandemic isn't going to stop us from having a holiday luncheon and taking a group photo together, even through Zoom! In these challenging moments, we continue to move forward in celebrating you and our communities as key contributors to 50 years of Visual Communications. We enjoyed celebrating our organization's #PastForward 50th anniversary throughout the month, sharing personal messages from the various #HumansofVC who have made the last 50 years of VC so memorable. Today's the last day of 2020! Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to our #VC50 Celebration Campaign so that we can continue our work for another 50 years! vcmedia.org/vc50

In partnership with A-Doc and Open Your Eyes & Think MF, this artist conversation at #LAAPFF2020 featured filmmakers on the rise as we talked about their first feature documentary film: Yi Chen (FIRST VOTE), Alice Gu (THE DONUT KING), and Jiayan Jenny Shi (FINDING YINGYING), hosted and moderated by Nanfu Wang (HOOLIGAN SPARROW, ONE CHILD NATION). SAVE THE DATE for the 37th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in September 2021! The largest festival of its kind in Southern California, LAAPFF is also a proud Academy Award-qualifying film festival for the Short Film Awards. Our #LAAPFF2021 call for entries opens on January 1, 2021. Learn more at vcmedia.org/submit!

In partnership with A-Doc and Open Your Eyes & Think MF, we hosted an artist conversation at #LAAPFF2020 about documentary filmmaking and chronicling narratives during COVID. Featured guests include Kristina Wong, Hao Wu (76 DAYS), along with Kimberly Bassford and Sarita Khurana from ADOC’s #AsianAmCovidStories. 76 DAYS is now available to watch in virtual cinemas! Learn more at 76daysfilm.com SAVE THE DATE for the 37th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival in September 2021! The largest festival of its kind in Southern California, LAAPFF is also a proud Academy Award-qualifying film festival for the Short Film Awards. Our #LAAPFF2021 call for entries opens on January 1, 2021. Learn more at vcmedia.org/submit!

"The Space Between 2.0" features inquiries into the physical and emotional spaces that connect and divide human beings. Watch this artist conversation with the filmmakers from the program, and catch their projects at #LAAPFF2020 before the viewing window closes on Saturday, October 31 at 11:59pm PT! Stream the films now at bit.ly/laapff2020-thespacebetween!

The viewing window for 76 DAYS, Geographies of Kinship ONE MEAL, THE PARADISE WE ARE LOOKING FOR, TOKYO HULA, and When We Walk ends TONIGHT at 11:59 pm PT! Today is your last chance to watch these films at #LAAPFF2020! festival.vcmedia.org

Join the Asian American Film Festival Collective TODAY at 5pm PT for a livestream Q&A on #LAAPFF2020 film A Thousand Cuts with filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz and special guest Maria Ressa, in conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated filmmaker. Learn more at athousandcuts.film

Refugees, Drifters, Matriarchs, Charlatans, Survivors, and the Supernatural unite! Here, the square pegs all fit. The streams all swim up. The grain runs against. So take off your shoes and watch these shortflix and feels in "Rebel Revel." Watch this artist conversation with the filmmakers from the program, and catch their projects at #LAAPFF2020 before the viewing window closes on Saturday, October 31 at 11:59pm PT! http://bit.ly/laapff2020-rebelrevel

In TOKYO HULA (dir. Lisette Marie Flanary), explore the explosive popularity of the hula dance in Japan, from both Native Hawaiian and Japanese perspectives.Watch this artist conversation with the filmmaker, and catch the #LAAPFF2020 film before the viewing window closes on Sunday, Oct 25 at 11:59pm PT! Stream now at https://bit.ly/laapff2020-tokyohula

#Halloween is a week away and we're excited to share a ghostly addition to our #LAAPFF2020 lineup! In DANCING MARY (dir. SABU), a municipal office in charge of demolishing an old building and replacing it with a modern complex fails due to paranormal activity. This film now now available to watch until Oct 31. Pay What You Can - all proceeds will support the Little Tokyo Community Council - LTCC. Watch now at bit.ly/laapff2020-dancingmary!

Our C3:CONVERSE Saturday, Oct 24 artist conversations featuring some of our #LAAPFF2020 filmmakers starts at 10am TODAY! Check out our schedule of conversations below: 10:00 am C3: KAYAMANAN NG LAHI Pamana Media Project 12:00 pm C3: COVID Chronicles 2:00 pm C3: The Story Continues... RSVP and join us at bit.ly/laapff2020-c3oct24!

Join us tomorrow on Sat, Oct 24 at 5pm for a journey through #LittleTokyo’s haunted past and present with a special, virtual guided tour of historical buildings, ghostly tales, and paranormal experiences in this over 100-year-old historic and cultural neighborhood. This #LAAPFF2020 event is part of our LT@Home series, to bring stories of #LittleTokyo to your home! Get tickets at janm.org/events/virtual

In When We Walk (dir. Jason DaSilva), the filmmaker explains the national healthcare crisis as he tries to be closer to his son, who lives 2,000 miles away. Watch this artist conversation with the filmmaker, and catch the #LAAPFF2020 film before the viewing window closes on Sunday, Oct 25 at 11:59pm PT! Stream now at bit.ly/laapff2020-whenwewalk

Our C3:CONVERSE Friday, Oct 23 artist conversations featuring some of our #LAAPFF2020 filmmakers starts at 12pm TODAY! Check out our schedule of conversations below: 12:00 pm C3: ONE MEAL 1:00 pm C3: GEOGRAPHIES OF KINSHIP 3:00 pm C3: Connections... 4:00 pm C3: Cinema Musica RSVP and join us at bit.ly/laapff2020-c3oct23!

Join us tomorrow, October 23 and Saturday, October 24 for C3:CONVERSE - a virtual space for creators to conversate and celebrate each other, featuring live artist conversations with our #LAAPFF2020 filmmakers. Registrations for this weekend's C3:CONVERSE artist conversations are NOW OPEN! On Saturday, October 24 at 12pm PT, we're hosting the special event C3: COVID Chronicles" in partnership with A-Doc and Open Your Eyes & Think MF. Join us for an artist conversation about documentary filmmaking and chronicling narratives during COVID. Artists include Hao Wu (76 DAYS), along with Kimberly Bassford and Sarita Khurana from ADOC’s #AsianAmCovidStories. Hosted by Kristina Wong. Learn more and RSVP at festival.vcmedia.org/2020/c3!

Throughout our lives we each carry quiet reflections about the events that shape us. These filmmakers in "Intimate Truth" bring their quiet reflections to the screen and share with us their cinematic love letters of resilience. Watch this artist conversation with the filmmakers from the program, and catch their projects at #LAAPFF2020 before the viewing window closes on Saturday, October 31 at 11:59pm PT! Stream the films at https://bit.ly/laapff2020-intimatetruth

Welcome to the FIFTH weekend of #LAAPFF2020! This selection of documentary and narrative feature films are now available for viewing until this Sunday, October 25 at 11:59pm PT: 76 DAYS (dir. Hao Wu, Weixi Chen): Raw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan. Join us for a C3:CONVERSE artist conversation on Saturday, Oct 24 at 12pm PT. Watch and RSVP at bit.ly/laapff2020-76days... Geographies of Kinship (dir. Deann Borshay Liem): Four adoptees return to their country of birth and reconnect with their roots. Join us for a C3:CONVERSE artist conversation on Friday, Oct 23 at 1pm PT. Watch and RSVP at bit.ly/laapff2020-geographiesofkinship ONE MEAL (dir. Yuechen Hao): A woman dreams of being a chef, but when her father plans to pass down the restaurant to her brother, she has to reevaluate her dream. Join us for a C3:CONVERSE artist conversation on Friday, Oct 23 at 12pm PT. Watch and RSVP at bit.ly/laapff2020-onemeal THE PARADISE WE ARE LOOKING FOR (dir. Joseph Mangat, Norbert Shieh, Quyên Nguyen-Le, R.J. Lozada): Four stories about immigrant cultures, self-expression, and living between borders, as seen through the eyes of Asian Americans in San Diego. Join us for a C3:CONVERSE artist conversation TODAY at 5pm PT. Watch and RSVP at bit.ly/laapff2020-paradise TOKYO HULA (dir. Lisette Marie Flanary): Explore the explosive popularity of the hula dance in Japan, from both Native Hawaiian and Japanese perspectives. Watch at bit.ly/laapff2020-tokyohula When We Walk (dir. Jason DaSilva): The filmmaker explains the national healthcare crisis as he tries to be closer to his son, who lives 2,000 miles away. Watch at bit.ly/laapff2020-whenwewalk

Our REORIENT program highlights creative works in emerging media virtual reality, video games, live streaming, and more bringing us to outer space and the depths of the ocean, into digital worlds, and the minds of plants. These projects are available for viewing at #LAAPFF2020 until October 31. Learn more at bit.ly/laapff2020-reorient!