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- A group of over-achieving East Asian American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extracurricular criminal activities.
- A young man struggles with his desire to study art when his family thinks he's headed for premedical studies. Conflicts between Filipino traditions and expectations vs. personal dreams in the contemporary world erupt at his sister's debut.
- Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Quentin Lee's gripping mystery of loss and redemption at the intersections of queerness, neurodiversity, and Asian-American identity.
- Bruce Lee's shocking death left legions of stunned fans and a legacy of 12 minutes from his unfinished Game Of Death. Undeterred, studio executives launched a search for his replacement chronicled here through the eyes of five aspiring thespians who find out what the real game is.
- The Department of Emotional Integrity (DEI) documents all relationship activity. A 'relationship score' is given to keep people accountable for their choices. The score is public for all to see, and affects various aspects of daily life. Two couples, teenagers and early 30s, face different but intersecting challenges in their relationships within the rules of the DEI.
- Odie and his best friend Irene are two outsiders who find a second home in the Philippine underground music scene. The two decide to form a band and put together an unlikely crew that consists of the school bully, an ex-punk-turned-barista, and a former-childstar-turned-band-manager. The film follows their misadventures as they face satanic S&M bands, samurai swindlers, narcissistic rockstars, the pretentious Philippine art community and the freakiest music video auteur ever. Co-written by Diego Castillo, the guitarist of one of the Philippines' biggest rock bands SANDWICH, and directed by multi-awarded music video director Quark Henares, Rakenrol is a heartfelt ode to the underground scene both filmmakers spent their formative years in.
- After Dom begins having suspicions about his wife, he goes to the seemingly wrong person for advice, leading him down a rabbit hole of drug fueled paranoia that threatens his mind, his heart, and his groin.
- A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuals during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several gay WWII veterans.
- The creators of Visas and Virtue (1997) (1997 Academy Award Winner, Best Live Action Short Film) bring you another important historical narrative. This dramatic film, set in a Japanese American internment camp during the World War II, explores one family's experience and examines the sacrifices and triumphs of those who endured and survived through perseverance, courage, and the all-American game of baseball. During World War II, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the forced removal and incarceration of all people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast. These people, most of whom were American citizens, were taken from their homes and sent to "relocation" camps in desolate, isolated areas. These camps were surrounded by barb wire and guard towers. There were no charges, nor due process. The internment of 120,000 innocent people was a dark moment in the history of this country.
- Based on the true story of 16 year-old Mexican/Irish-American Ralph Lazo who chose to go to the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II with his Japanese-American friends.
- The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in the United States.
- What happens when religiously conservative Christian parents have children who "become homosexual?" FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS is filmmaker Arthur Dong's personal attempt to answer that explosive question.
- A musical exploration of the historical abuse of Korean women by foreign powers.
- Sei Fujii is a crusading reporter for a newspaper in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo section in 1935. He is concerned that the exploitation of the poor by local gambling concerns will not only hurt the community directly, but will also sabotage the efforts to make the rest of Los Angeles accept the Japanese of Little Tokyo as loyal and trustworthy Americans. Fujii sets out to bring the power of the press to play against the gambling houses.
- A terminally ill jazz trumpeter cannot reconcile the differences between the two people he loves most: his compassionate caregiver and a neglected daughter who fights to get closer to him.
- After the trigger of a hate crime, an undocumented Indian American convenience store clerk comes crashing into his subconscious as he grieves the passing of his father during an attempted border crossing.
- A paint by the numbers stand-up comic has four jokes to make his captor laugh or die trying.
- Two strangers inspire one another to rediscover their true passions without ever meeting.
- A Sushi Chef offers love advice to his customers, but his advice stinks.
- A once-renowned Chinese painter is kicked out of her son's home, prompting her to enroll in a controversial school that claims to teach people how to start life anew. The instructor and class exercises force her to re-evaluate life and what it is worth.
- A celebration of the music and influences of contemporary Asian American culture on Dan Kuramoto, June Okida Kuramoto, and Johnny Mori, three musicians who made up the core of the jazz fusion band Hiroshima.
- Two estranged brothers visit their childhood spot in downtown Los Angeles in an attempt to reconcile. A past grudge resurfaces.
- In the year 2244, alien scientists attempt to save the Japanese American (JA) Human species from extinction by breeding a frozen 20th-century Sansei (3rd generation JA) Beauty Queen from Gardena, CA, with the sole-surviving Kusei (9th generation JA) male brought back from exile on the planet Topanzanar.
- The insecurities and pent-up emotions of an immigrant in the USA give way to political ruminations and critical commentaries on the colonization of the mind by the American Dream. A montage of home movies from the title's years presents an anatomy of family ties and a reliving of one's own identity.
- Documentary on the Los Angeles-based media arts group, Visual Communications. The one-hour film chronicles their first twenty years, 1970-1990, of producing media by and about Asian Pacific Americans. Clips from some twenty past productions are inter-cut with interviews of Visual Communication's original founders to explore how they endeavored to control their own stories and images.
- In a sibling rivalry, Eugene can never measure up to his perfect, Stanford-bound older brother Dave. But underlying emotional conflicts are revealed when the pressure to live up to their parents' expectations prove too much for both to bear.
- Set during a late summer's evening, Café Elevé tells of a former ballerina who has sacrificed her passion in order to support her family. Upon finding an item left behind by a customer, she rediscovers the freedom she once felt and a connection to a person whom she's never met.
- Starla knows a place where pigtails are on animals and schoolgirls are educated. OUR PLACE IN THE SKY is a slam poetry film that pulls back the curtain on fetishization.
- For all intents and purposes, 2015 was seemingly a banner year for singer/songwriter Bobby Choy (aka Big Phony). His melodic and quiet songs had garnered him a following as he performs at SXSW while also starring in his first feature film. However, returning back to the States from living abroad in S. Korea - has he made the right decisions in life, professionally and personally? Is he his own worst enemy?
- A young boy dreams he is a Samurai hero in feudal Japan, who rescues a child Princess from a group of bandits, only to awaken and find a real-life adventure, with a strange, rewarding connection to his dream world.
- After her relationship ends abruptly, a cartoonist, whose head is always up in the clouds, must learn to come down to earth.
- DREAMS FROM THE UNDERGROUND was an event at the 28th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Featuring the talents of "underground" artists, those who operate outside mainstream media, the event and culminating film became a platform to bring awareness of the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) and for the UCLA DREAM Resource Center and undocumented Asian American youth to seek support. The number of undocumented Asian Americans is staggering, and often left unnoticed, overshadowed, or unspoken. According to the Department of Homeland Security in 2011, there are 1.3 million undocumented Asian Americans in the United States. It is estimated that 416,000 of those undocumented Asian Americans are in California. Seven years ago, Tam Tran, under the guidance and mentorship of VC's Armed With a Camera Fellowship, produced a groundbreaking film, LOST AND FOUND, that created national awareness of the plight of undocumented youth. Tran unified her passion for filmmaking with her commitment to assist undocumented students like herself to attend college and attain legal status. In addition to testifying in Congress to plead for passage of the DREAM Act, Tran continued her passionate effort with the UCLA Downtown Labor Center. It is there where she continued the work she started with her film and inspired the creation of DREAM Summer, an internship program that is the first of its kind to give DREAM Act-eligible student leaders the opportunity to gain leadership skills within social-justice organizations. Visual Communications chose to continue the legacy of Tran through the event and film, DREAMS FROM THE UNDERGROUND.
- A young couple's love is tested in a singular moment of moral ambiguity.
- "Sameer and the Giant Samosa" is a dark comedy about a newlywed Indian couple and their diverging views on marriage and tradition. A surreal turn of events reveals the groom's true, hidden appetites.
- Three women run an underground business delivering mysterious little boxes in Los Angeles.
- STILL LIFE WITH follows a young South Asian woman as she faces the banalities of another day. Except that it's the Hindu New Year, a day of introspection and renewal, and jilted communication with her parents sits heavy in her heart as she examines her love of self, partner, and family.
- In need to make sense of the memory of her father, Writer/Dir. Suilma returns to his old bedroom two years after his sudden death. Everything remained as he left it, including thousands of neatly piled horse racing tickets; a clue to her father's passion and reason for frequent absence.
- Politicians, police officers, and right-wing pundits all agree: White On is the best solution to the race problem since Jim Crow! Never sit through another one of those boring "racial sensitivity trainings" ever again! Give them the gift of White On and watch your fears boil away!
- A middle aged, single man, nicknamed "Professor" by his nephew, is unable to keep up his gardening work when he fails his drivers license test - until he comes up with a new plan.
- A young man has an existential debate with an old school teacher in his head, as he bleeds out in his bathtub.
- When a divorcee takes in a musician in her spare room, her teenage daughter asks to take violin lessons from him. During the music lessons, her feelings for him begin to grow. Passion reaches its heights one night when he is drunk.
- Sometimes the truth is hard to swallow. A young girl seeks psychiatric assistance by taking a drug that will allow her a look into her most feared past.
- After unsuccessful attempts to break into the American music industry, an aspiring singer enrolls in pop star school.
- Hungry to be heard, a group of Asian American artists build a platform for their voice and their community.