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  1. ‘Gook’ Director Justin Chon Reflects on L.A. Riots: “In ’92, Everybody Was Angry”

    Posted April 29th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

      By Rebecca Sun from The Hollywood Reporter   The filmmaker and star’s Sundance award-winning drama depicts the events of April 29, 1992, through the eyes of a Korean shop owner and the young black girl who befriends him. Gook, the second directorial feature from Justin Chon, tells the story of the 1992 Los Angeles […]

  2. Mixed Match: Jeff Chiba Stearns and Athena Asklipiadis Stresses The Importance of Bone Marrow Donor Registry for Mixed Races

    Posted April 29th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

      By Gig Patta on Latino Review Media   Far too many people have died from cancer. It’s very important than ever for volunteers to register themselves in the bone marrow donor registry so that there’s a chance to save someone from cancer and other diseases. With a relatively small percentage registering in the United […]

  3. BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK Screening Rescheduled to Monday, May 1st

    Posted April 29th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Updates

    The Festival team sincerely apologizes for the cancellation of the Friday, April 28th Downtown Independent screening of BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK due to technical difficulties. BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK with English subtitles will be screened at the Downtown Independent on Monday, May 1st, 4:30 PM. The screening is FREE to the public. If you […]

  4. The Lockpicker: Director Randall Okita Reflects Making Teenage Thief Film

    Posted April 29th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

      By Gig Patta from Latino Review Media   Once a teen enters into the world of crime, it’s too late to get out. In The Lockpicker, this grounded narrative film looks at a teenage thief who tries to leave town to escape the violence that threatens him and the people he loves. The film […]

  5. Sung Kang on the Importance of BETTER LUCK TOMORROW and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

    Posted April 29th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

      By Cohan Chew from Resonate   Sung Kang has discussed the importance of LAAPFF and Better Luck Tomorrow. Kang was attending the opening night of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on Thursday, which screened Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow to mark its 15th year anniversary. In the film, Kang plays Han, a […]

  6. ‘Look what happens when we don’t talk to each other’: Korean American filmmakers’ L.A. riots stories

    Posted April 28th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

      By Jen Yamato from the Los Angeles Times   Edward Jae Song Lee was a month away from celebrating his 19th birthday when he was killed in the 1992 Los Angeles riots, caught in a crossfire of bullets reportedly while attempting to defend a Koreatown pizza parlor from looters on the second day of […]

  7. China’s Environmental Woes, in Films That Go Viral, Then Vanish

    Posted April 28th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

      By Kiki Zhao from The New York Times   BEIJING — Achieving fame was not hard for Wang Jiuliang, but staying in the spotlight has proved more difficult. His career as a documentary filmmaker has followed a distressing pattern: spectacular internet reactions to his movies and videos on environmental topics, followed by their rapid […]

  8. Asian Pacific Film Festival revisits ‘Better Luck Tomorrow,’ ‘Bronzeville’ and the L.A. riots

    Posted April 27th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

    Featured on the Los Angeles Times Connecting retrospective and introspective points of view, the 33rd edition of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival begins with Thursday’s opening night gala, a 15th anniversary screening of Justin Lin’s “Better Luck Tomorrow.” Screening 180 films from 33 countries over the next two weeks, the festival takes an […]

  9. Chinese Sexuality, Subverted, in Taxi Stories

    Posted April 27th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

    by Allison Tate from Advocate   The new film Taxi Stories, from acclaimed writer-director Doris Yeung, tells the intersecting tales of three contemporary Asians — a closeted Beijing taxi driver, a pregnant Hong Kong trophy wife, and a Jakarta slum kid, all trying to connect with each other despite the constraints of their social class. It stars acting legend […]

  10. “Cardinal X” – Angie Wang Interview

    Posted April 27th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

      Featured on LA 18 Generation Now   Cindy J. Lee interviews Angie Wang, who directed, wrote and co-produced the drama film Cardinal X. Inspired by her own story, the film follows a Chinese American college student’s brief stint as an ecstasy dealer in the 80s. In this interview, Angie talks about how her non-profit […]

  11. Marie Jamora, Jason McLagan, and Courtney Bandeko from “Flip the Record”

    Posted April 27th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

      By Dino-Ray Ramos from Off White   Two episodes in one week? That’s crazy! What’s even crazier is that this is another two-parter. There is just too much awesome to contain in one episode! Filmmakers Marie Jamora and Jason McLagan and actress Courtney Bandeko come to the Off White dining room/recording studio/donut eating facility […]

  12. Sujata Day and Tristen J. Winger from “Insecure”

    Posted April 27th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

      By Dino-Ray Ramos from Off White   Sujata Day and Tristen J. Winger (a.k.a. Sarah and Thug Yoda from Insecure) continue our conversation from last week. The two talk about their time on Issa Rae’s Awkward Black Girl, the web series which the Golden Globe-nominated HBO comedy was based as well as their upcoming […]

  13. ‘Bronzeville, Little Tokyo’ serves up WWII L.A.

    Posted April 27th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

      By Gregg Reese on Our Weekly   As the 33rd iteration of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (http://festival.vconline.org/2017/) gets underway today through May 3, a special presentation within the extravaganza resurrects the often overlooked travesty of forced relocation and internment of Japanese American citizens to camps in the western United States, during […]

  14. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Spotlight on Taiwan Cinema Takes Place This Week at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Festival April 27 – May 11, 2017

    Posted April 26th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Press

    TWO AWARD WINNING FEATURE FILMS WILL REPRESENT THE LATEST IMPORTANT CINEMA OFFERINGS FROM TAIWAN FIVE SHORT FILMS WILL TAKE CENTER STAGE WITH SOME OF TAIWAN’S NEWEST EMERGING FILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES, CA,  APRIL 26 2017 — The 33rd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival presented by Visual Communications is proud to feature some of the best […]

  15. Q&A with Ghost Magnet Roach Motel’s Shinpei Takeda

    Posted April 26th, 2017 by Visual Communications in Feature Articles

    By Martin Wong of Save Music in Chinatown In my past life, I’ve supported attended film festivals as a writer, judge, and participant. And now I just go for fun. I love independent, underground, and international movies–not to mention pretty much every trashy genre flick and a handful of arty ones–and how cool is it to […]