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Free/Pay What You Can Programs
Free/Pay What You Can film programs are available on a first come, first-served basis.
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Special Presentations
BLOSSOMS UNDER SOMEWHERE
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BLOSSOMS UNDER SOMEWHERE
Directed by Riley YIP
A stuttering female high school student runs an online business and unexpectedly gains the attention and admiration of…
Shorts Programs
Cinema Musica: (Un)Spoken Feelings
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Cinema Musica: (Un)Spoken Feelings
Kickoff LAAPFF 2025 during our Opening Night Party, and come watch MTV – VC style! Dive into music…
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Special Presentations
Color Congress presents Resistance & Joy: Reclaiming Power
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Color Congress presents Resistance & Joy: Reclaiming Power
From cultural preservation to political resistance, this block of films showcase the ways people organize, resist oppression, and…
Documentary Features
FROM OKINAWA WITH LOVE
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FROM OKINAWA WITH LOVE
Directed by Hiroshi Sunairi
In the 1970s, Okinawan photographer Mao Ishikawa worked as a barmaid for African American GIs and published an…
Documentary Features
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VC Archives Presents
GRASSROOTS RISING
Film
GRASSROOTS RISING
Directed by Robert C. Winn
GRASSROOTS RISING, directed by Robert C. Winn, explores the re-emergence of Asian Pacific American labor activism in Los…
Pacific Cinewaves
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Shorts Programs
Healing Water
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Healing Water
These two filmmakers explore the inextricable links betweens climate change and colonialism, how the exploitation of the Native…
Shorts Programs
Let It Flow
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Let It Flow
Explore what it means to connect, what it means to bridge, and to share, utilizing dance as a…
Shorts Programs
LA Rebellion: Toward a More Perfect Rebellion — Conversations with Josslyn Luckett
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LA Rebellion: Toward a More Perfect Rebellion — Conversations with Josslyn Luckett
Spanning generations of filmmakers shaped by the LA Rebellion and UCLA’s Ethno-Communications program, this program revisits the urgency,…
Shorts Programs
Indigenous NOW: Trees in the Wind
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Indigenous NOW: Trees in the Wind
Films depicting indigenous peoples living in nations now known as China, India, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Guam confront…
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Special Presentations
Little Tokyo & Other Tales
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Little Tokyo & Other Tales
Encounter stories and spaces rooted in community, featuring our home neighborhood of Little Tokyo, elders who create healing…
Narrative Features
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Special Presentations
LITTLE RED SWEET
Film
LITTLE RED SWEET
Directed by Vincent Chow
A flight attendant returns home to save her family’s Chinese dessert shop as love, loss, and redevelopment pull…
Pacific Cinewaves
MĀHŪ: A TRANS-PACIFIC LOVE LETTER
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MĀHŪ: A TRANS-PACIFIC LOVE LETTER
Directed by Lisette Marie Flanary
MĀHŪ: A Trans-Pacific Love Letter is a short documentary about an innovative theater production by master hula teacher, Kumu…
Documentary Features
MAKING WAVES: THE RISE OF ASIAN AMERICA
Film
MAKING WAVES: THE RISE OF ASIAN AMERICA
Directed by Jon Osaki, Josh Chuck
Making Waves documents stories of Asian American activism and efforts to lift-up ethnic studies as a strategy to…
Shorts Programs
MANZANAR + OUT OF THE DUST
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MANZANAR + OUT OF THE DUST
Experience reflections of Manzanar through dance and moving images, in honor of the works by Janice Mirikatani and…
Narrative Features
MONGRELS
Film
MONGRELS
Directed by Jerome Yoo
In rural Canada in the 1990s, a Korean family - a widower, his teenage son, and young daughter…
Shorts Programs
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Special Presentations
Scribe Video Center presents: PRIMARY SOURCE
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Scribe Video Center presents: PRIMARY SOURCE
Primary Source is an initiative of Scribe Video Center that was designed to create journalistic community produced media…
Shorts Programs
The Space Between 3.0
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The Space Between 3.0
This unique pairing of films from Iran explores the spaces and lenses through which the living revisit and…
Documentary Features
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Pacific Cinewaves
STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS
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STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS
Directed by Jalena Keane-Lee
When the massive Thirty Meter Telescope is proposed to be built on Mauna Kea, an uprising of kiaʻi…
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Special Presentations
The Grocery List Show
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The Grocery List Show
“The Grocery List Show, hosted by former Top Chef contender, Chrissy Camba is an adventurous food, culture, and…
Documentary Features
VOICES OF DEOLI
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VOICES OF DEOLI
Directed by Lulu Men
Voices of Deoli is a poignant documentary that follows the lives of survivors of the Deoli internment camp,…
Shorts Programs
WHERE THE LIGHT ENTERS YOU + ON HEALING LAND, BIRDS PERCH
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WHERE THE LIGHT ENTERS YOU + ON HEALING LAND, BIRDS PERCH
Across landscapes marked by loss, memory, and resilience, these two films explore the human capacity to heal.
Documentary Features
YONSEI
Film
YONSEI
Directed by Jeff Mizushima, Rachel Michiko Whitney
In an effort to write a screenplay about her mother's Hollywood acting career, Rachel, a fourth generation Japanese…
VC Archives Presents
VC Archives Presents: Peripherals
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VC Archives Presents: Peripherals
Blending together seminal works by Visual Communications founders shaped by the spirit of the UCLA EthnoCommunications program and…
C3
C3: CONNECTING WORLDS: A Fireside Chat with Henry Chan
Special Event
C3: CONNECTING WORLDS: A Fireside Chat with Henry Chan
This candid conversation with Henry Chan will focus on the intersectionality of his craft.
C3
C3: Fireside Duo: Reina Bonta and Anna Huix
Special Event
C3: Fireside Duo: Reina Bonta and Anna Huix
Join us for a live chat reminiscent of our artist conversation series "21 & Over”, celebrating the creative…
C3
C3: Fireside with Alika Maikau and Lisette Marie Kaualena Flanery
Special Event
C3: Fireside with Alika Maikau and Lisette Marie Kaualena Flanery
This dual fireside chat brings two filmmakers together who dedicated to honoring and bringing Hawaiian stories to screen.
C3
C3: The Cleaning Lady Tells All: Creating Grit and Grace for 4 Seasons
Special Event
C3: The Cleaning Lady Tells All: Creating Grit and Grace for 4 Seasons
The panel features Elodie Yung and creatives from the hit FOX series as they pull back the curtain...
R3
R3: Fireside w/ Set Hernandez and Diane Quon
Special Event
R3: Fireside w/ Set Hernandez and Diane Quon
Join this uplifting and intimate conversation where filmmaker/community organizer Set Hernandez (UNSEEN) interviews Academy Award-nominated producer Diane Quon…
R3
R3: Navigating Difficult Subject Matter in Post
Special Event
R3: Navigating Difficult Subject Matter in Post
Join our panel of acclaimed documentary editors as they discuss the unique challenges of shaping stories that confront…
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