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Free/Pay What You Can film programs are available on a first come, first-served basis.

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Narrative Features, Special Presentations

BLOSSOMS UNDER SOMEWHERE

Film 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

Program Cinema Musica: (Un)Spoken Feelings Kickoff LAAPFF 2025 during our Opening Night Party, and come watch MTV – VC style! Dive into music…
Shorts Programs, Special Presentations

Color Congress presents Resistance & Joy: Reclaiming Power

Program 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

Film 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, 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, Shorts Programs

Healing Water

Program 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

Program 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

Program 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

Program Indigenous NOW: Trees in the Wind Films depicting indigenous peoples living in nations now known as China, India, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Guam confront…
Shorts Programs, Special Presentations

Little Tokyo & Other Tales

Program Little Tokyo & Other Tales Encounter stories and spaces rooted in community, featuring our home neighborhood of Little Tokyo, elders who create healing…
Narrative Features, 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

Film 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

Program 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, Special Presentations

Scribe Video Center presents: PRIMARY SOURCE

Program 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

Program 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, Pacific Cinewaves

STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS

Film 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…
Shorts Programs, Special Presentations

The Grocery List Show

Program 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

Film 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

Program 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

Program 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…