VC ARCHIVES PRESENTS: CA LIBERATION
- Democracy Series, VC Presents
- 57 mins
FREE/PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Filmmakers in attendance. Film program will be followed by a Fireside chat.
Deep gratitude to all of our community organizations for the work that they lead. Special thanks to Asian American Documentary Network and EMPOWERING API for their help in promoting this program.
Join VC Founders Duane Kubo & Eddie Wong as we look back at their early works at Visual Communications and how their work laid the foundation for our community-based media. Watch CRUISIN’ J-TOWN and PIECES OF A DREAM, and enjoy a conversation between Duane & Eddie.
In this program
CRUISIN’ J-TOWN
Directed by Duane Kubo
CRUISIN’ J-TOWN celebrates the music and influences of contemporary Asian American culture on Dan Kuramoto, June Okida Kuramoto, and Johnny Mori — three musicians who make up the core of the jazz fusion band Hiroshima.
PIECES OF A DREAM (4K RESTORATION)
Directed by Eddie Wong
A lyrical, expressive film history of Asian Pacific Americans on the Sacramento River delta.