All Films & Events
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Muscles & Mascara
Michael T. Chang, Tiffany Wong, Janelle Sangalang, Ryan Rodriguez / USA / 2016 / 6 mins
Powerlifting saved Cynthia Leu's life.
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My Chinese Southern Roots – Before Lynwood
Gerald Chow / USA / 2017 / 5 mins
Calvin Chow was a classmate of mine at Lynwood High School from 1968 to 1971. He was born and raised in Mississippi at the peak of the civil rights movement. Calvin describes living in a society where he was "not black and not white, but somewhere in between."
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Norman Jones
Mike Sakamoto / Narrative Competition / USA / 2016 / 70 mins
NORMAN JONES is the story of the death of a nobody—a lonely painter whose demise goes unnoticed, except by a few acquaintances who barely knew him. No one to mourn him, no one to remember him, no one to utter his name: it is as if he never existed at all.Preceded by: Two-Sided Ride
NORMAN JONES
Downtown Independent
April 30, 2017 7:00 pm
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Nuwa
Joshua Lim / USA / 2017 / 5 mins
A young human/robot hybrid must learn to harness the computer virus growing inside of her to save her people from oppression.
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Occasionally, I Saw Glimpses of Hawai‘i
Christopher Makoto Yogi / Shorts Competition / USA / 2016 / 15 mins
A film essay looking at 100 years of Hawai‘i in film, explores issues of representation and gender. This filmic deconstruction is a lively, often infuriating examination of Hollywood's portrayal of the islands, highlighting the essential necessity of homegrown filmmaking.
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One Eightieth of Zhang Tianyi
Shuhan Fan / China, USA / 2016 / 19 mins
When Zhang Tianyi graduates from the most prestigious law school in China in 2014, he is one of 8 million young Chinese who are competing for new jobs. To stand out, Zhang Tianyi makes an outrageous career choice. He opens a small restaurant in Beijing to sell spicy rice noodles in the style of his hometown in Hunan. But, as he states, the rice noodles are just a medium to deliver his philosophy of individual empowerment.
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The Other Side
Hyemin Nancy Kim, Joshua Chin, Bradley Aranha / USA / 2016 / 4 mins
Kara identifies as transgender and Taiwanese-American.
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Our Time
Arpita Kumar / USA / 2016 / 11 mins
Through fragmented recordings on devices such as iPhones and iPads, a child discovers the rupture in her family, and is forced to make a difficult choice.
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Our Torrance Farm – Life Before Lynwood
Gerald Chow / USA / 2017 / 5 mins
Ed Kanemoto describes his idyllic life growing up on a farm in Torrance, California in the late 1940s and '50s. He and his family eventually left their farm because of rapidly encroaching housing developments in the area, and relocated to Lynwood, California, where they opened a gardening and nursery business.
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Papa Cloudy’s Restaurant
Akiko McQuerrey / Japan, USA / 2014 / 6 mins
When an octopus escapes the chopping block to sing a heartfelt song about overfishing, Papa Cloudy decides to change the menu at his fancy seaside restaurant.
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People Like Us
Leon Cheo / Singapore / 2016 / 8 mins
Following four gay men in Singapore, PEOPLE LIKE US is a poignant reflection and insightful look into the lives of Joel, Ridzwan, Rai, and Isaac navigating lust, love, and life.Plays In:
The Big Picture, In Bite-Sized Chunks: APAs And Webisodic Series
Tateuchi Democracy Forum
April 30, 2017 12:00 pm
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Perfect Imperfection
Cianna Platt / USA / 2016 / 5 mins
A teenager talks about her past struggles with Anorexia Nervosa.
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Persimmons
Huay-Bing Law / USA / 2016 / 15 mins
A father and daughter look at assisted living facilities after she finds him wandering on the side of the road.
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Phetmixay Means Fighter
Rita Phetmixay / USA / 2016 / 12 mins
Through the lens of his daughter, Rita Phetmixay, Phoutone Phetmixay reflects on his past journey to the United States from Laos that entails resiliency, self-reflection, and determination. Phoutone ultimately pursues his calling in life through his timeless commitment to the Royal Lao Airborne military.
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Plastic China
Jiu-Liang Wang / International Competition / China / 2016 / 82 mins
Yi-Jie, an 11-year- old girl, works alongside her parents in a recycling facility while dreaming of attending school. Kun, the facility’s ambitious foreman, dreams of a better life. Through the eyes and hands of those who handle its refuse, an examination of global consumption and culture. PLASTIC CHINA brings us front and center into the lives of a community/culture barely heard from who toil daily in waste from around the globe - washing, cleaning and recycling the plastic garbage - and still living in poverty, yet harnessing the same dreams of education, good health and upward mobility as everyone else. This is not the China we see on TV.PLASTIC CHINA
CGV Cinemas 3
April 30, 2017 4:00 pm
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