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#LIFE

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.

Dates & Times

Past