At Visual Communications, we're back in full swing with Film Festival 2016 organizing, fellowship classes starting up, and at the end of the month, a foodie event and a Halloween horror extravagana! Read on to see what's in store for October...
Coming October 25: Grace Lee's OFF THE MENU in J-Town
Visual Communications partners with the Japanese American National Museum to present award-winning filmmaker Grace Lee's latest documentary feature OFF THE MENU Sunday, Oct. 25 at JANM's Tateuchi Democracy Forum in Los Angeles Little Tokyo! Program and ticket info (which includes a post-screening panel and post-screening food reception) is now available here. For more info on the film, visit the film's website.
NOW ACCEPTING ENTRIES: L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival '16


 

The Call-for-Entries for the 32nd edition of The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, April 21 through 28, 2016, is now in full swing. Are you a filmmaker of Asian American or Pacific Islander descent? Or know someone who is? Then check out the guidelines here (now with two ways to submit), and submit by the Oct. 30 Early Deadline!
Oct. 15: HITO HATA at Union Station

As part of its fall film series in collaboration with Echo Park Film Center, Metro Art Presents will showcase Duane Kubo and Robert Nakamura's landmark VC production HITO HATA: RAISE THE BANNER, at the Fred Harvey Room at Union Station on Thursday, Oct. 15. The film centers on Oda (Mako), a feisty issei (first-generation Japanese American) and balances flashbacks that traces Oda's life as a migrant laborer to his struggles to save the home of elderly Little Tokyo residents when the community is threatened with redevelopment. Screening details here. See you there!
Oct. 17: Meet VC at the ARCHIVES BAZAAR
Join the Visual Communications crew on Saturday, Oct. 17 at the tenth anniversary Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, Doheny Memorial Library on the campus of USC. In the spirit of celebrating the diversity of stories that make Southern California such a place of discovery, Visual Communications will showcase select offerings from its Asian Pacific American Photographic Archive as well as other surprises. Find out more about the Bazaar here, and we'll see you there!
Third Show Added Oct. 30: PRINCE OF DARKNESS in J-Town!
Due to overwhelming demand, Visual Communications, East West Players and Horror's Hallowed Grounds has announced a third screening of John Carpenter's classic PRINCE OF DARKNESS, which was shot on location at our headquarters in Little Tokyo's Union Center for the Arts and features Dennis Dun, Ann Yen, and the late, great Victor Wong! Tickets for the first two shows are SOLD OUT; tickets for a third screening on Friday, Oct. 30 will go on sale here starting Friday, Oct. 9.
Watch for It Nov. 15: VC FETES BRUCE LEE
Visual Communications is pleased to partner with the Bruce Lee Foundation to celebrate Bruce Lee's 75th birthday in a special program and celebration set for Nov. 15. Stay tuned! Complete program details coming early next week!
  BRUCE LEE
On Tap: Essential Happenings for September
A selection of works from Visual Communications' Digital Histories Project will be presented at special screenings during October:

38-14-4 by Steve Nagano
A SUITCASE IN ONE HAND - A PAINTBOX IN THE OTHER by Michi Tanioka
REMEMBERING RAFU MANDOLIN CLUB by David Osako
WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE MONUMENT'S MEN IN LITTLE TOKYO? by Cathy Uchida
will screen Oct. 9 at the San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center, 12953 Branford Street, Arleta, CA 91331.

WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE MONUMENT'S MEN IN LITTLE TOKYO? by Cathy Uchida
will screen Oct. 21 at the Friends and Family of Nisei Veterans Reunion in Las Vegas, California Hotel, 12 E. Ogden Avenue, Las Vegas, NV.

Not to be outdone, a selection of works from both Digital Histories and VC's Armed With a Camera Fellowship will bow at the San Diego Asian Film Festival, Nov. 5 through 14:

ALL THE WAY by Allison Nakamura (Sun, Nov. 8, 3:55 PM)
THE CUT THROUGH by Weldon Powers (Fri, Nov. 6, 9:05 PM)
FRANK & KASS by Norbert Shieh (Wed, Nov. 11, 6:40 PM)
JEANNIE WONG WANTS TO DO EVERYTHING by Jeff Man (Fri, Nov. 6, 4 PM)
Complete program details for SDAFF 2015 can be found here.

In other AWC alumni news: YAKUZA NO. 2 by Susumu Kimura will screen Oct. 17 in a shorts program organized by NewFilmmakers Los Angeles. Program and ticket info here.

And for all you New Yorkers, Kelly Li's 2012 AWC narrative CAFÉ ELEVÉ is set to screen on WNET/13 this Saturday, alongside the classic Steve McQueen thriller BULLITT. Deets here.

Look for more details on these and other Visual Communications-produced works on our  Facebook and Twitter pages.

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