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Along The Ugum River
Film
Along The Ugum River
Directed by Neil Tinkham
On Guam, a Chamoru fisherman discovers a Japanese soldier straggler and must decide whether to turn him in…
Pacific Cinewaves
DEAR ALOHA
Film
DEAR ALOHA
Directed by CRIS ROMENTO
Dear Aloha is a heartfelt story about the meaning of aloha through the lives of Diasporic Hawaiians in…
Dear Watsonville
Film
Dear Watsonville
Directed by Sondy Lucille
“Dear Watsonville” is a mixed-media documentary offering an intimate glimpse into the lives of the manong generation, the…
EDMUND SOOHOO: THE HEART OF CHINATOWN
Film
EDMUND SOOHOO: THE HEART OF CHINATOWN
Directed by Visual Communications, Walt Louie
A heartfelt portrait of Edmund Soohoo, a beloved community organizer and Chinatown icon, told through the perspectives of…
FLIGHT 182
Film
FLIGHT 182
Directed by Rippin Sindher
Amid rising political tensions, a devoted wife fights to protect her husband from boarding a flight that could…
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…
Grandpa’s Beef Stew
Film
Grandpa’s Beef Stew
Directed by HaiTao Wu
Grandpa's Beef Stew follows a young protagonist's emotional journey as he grapples with his grandfather's Alzheimer's, uncovering the…
VC Archives Presents
HITO HATA: RAISE THE BANNER
Film
HITO HATA: RAISE THE BANNER
Directed by Duane Kubo, Robert A. Nakamura
A landmark first feature film by and about Asian Pacific Americans, Hito Hata: Raise the Banner follows Oda, an aging…
Documentary Features
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VC Archives Presents
KITES AND OTHER TALES (4K RESTORATION)
Film
KITES AND OTHER TALES (4K RESTORATION)
Directed by Alan Ohashi
Kites and Other Tales showcases modern kitemaker Tom Joe's efforts to preserve the traditional craft of kite making and…
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…
Documentary Features
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VC Archives Presents
MANZANAR
Film
MANZANAR
Directed by Robert A. Nakamura
Created by Robert Nakamura as a graduate student in UCLA’s Ethnocommunications Program, Manzanar is a lyrical and pensive…
Memories of Mindanao: Tawi Tawi
Film
Memories of Mindanao: Tawi Tawi
Directed by Alleluia Panis
A multi-generational group of American Pilipino artists and cultural workers embark on a visual and sensory immersion trip…
Documentary Features
NEW WAVE
Film
NEW WAVE
Directed by Elizabeth Ai
Mile-high hair. Synthesized sounds. Teenage rebellion. Elizabeth Ai was on a mission to excavate an untold story of…
Out of the Dust
Film
Out of the Dust
Directed by Brian Staufenbiel, Yayoi Kambara
Dance film about World War II Japanese American Incarceration told through ghosts who come to life through poetry.
PILGRIMAGE
Film
PILGRIMAGE
Directed by Tadashi Nakamura
PILGRIMAGE tells the inspiring story of how an abandoned WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans has been transformed…
Portraits of a Young Girl
Film
Portraits of a Young Girl
Directed by Betty Chen
Portraits of a Young Girl is a quietly radical animated short by Betty Chen that transforms intimate sketches…
Rising
Film
Rising
Directed by Evelyn Hang Yin
RISING traces the history of China Alley in Hanford, California and how four generations of the Wing family…
Sleepwalker
Film
Sleepwalker
Directed by Laura Ho Fineman
A poetic and surreal journey through 1970s Los Angeles, Sleepwalker follows an Asian woman’s silent drift through city streets, evoking…
Tasting Heritage
Film
Tasting Heritage
Directed by Emily Strong
Tasting Heritage is a nourishing coming of heritage story of a Korean-adopted woman named Emily Flynn.
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,…
Documentary Features
YEAR OF THE CAT
Film
YEAR OF THE CAT
Directed by Tony Nguyen
YEAR OF THE CAT follows filmmaker Tony Nguyen on an extraordinary quest to solve the mystery of his…
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…
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