#LIFE
- Shorts Programs
- 105 mins
Filmmakers in attendance.
A cinematic invitation to step into contemporary perspectives on family, culture, and career. – Eseel Borlasa
Co-presented with Community Partners: Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance | Los Angeles (APALA-LA), FilmAm Creative, Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC)
In this program
FINDING MAURITIUS
Directed by: Sandra Carbonell-Kiamtia | 5 mins
Sandra discovers a part of her identity through an exploration of her family’s history on a small island in the Indian Ocean.
HALO-HALO
Directed by: Bernard Badion | 9 mins
A ‘journalist’ is useless at work when his thoughts are inundated with a woman he thinks is the one.
I’LL BE A STAR
Directed by: Sultankazy Pirzhan uulu | 18 mins
Azat spends quality time with his family since being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
LIGHTS UP: ASIAN AMERICAN THEATER AT UCLA
Directed by: Arielle Frances Bagood | 8 mins
UCLA’s Asian American theater company continues to tackle the question of identity and inclusion 23 years after its founding.
MASTER OF DIVINITY
Directed by: Eugene Suen | 20 mins
An ex-seminarian and now-struggling filmmaker begins to panic after his wife tells him that God is calling her to quit her job.
OUR MAN IN TOKYO (THE BALLAD OF SHIN MIYATA)
Directed by: Akira Boch | 20 mins
A Tokyo-based music promoter and record label owner specializes in the difficult task of distributing Chicano music in Japan.
SPEAK EASY, B
Directed by: Becca Park, Jun Shimizu | 15 mins
In therapy, B breaks through cultural conditioning, past loves, and psychological defenses to arrive at True Self.
THE MISSING PIECE PROJECT
Directed by: Daniel Luu | 10 mins
This short film paints the journey of Vietnamese community leaders as they explore how to reclaim their history and identity through space.







