Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

10/02/2023

Call for Entries is NOW OPEN! 🌺
Visual Communications is proud to present the 40th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival from May 1 to May 11, 2024. The Festival will feature a robust lineup of in-person programming, along with virtual programming for audiences at home in Southern California and beyond. LAAPFF is also an Academy Award®-qualifying Festival for the Short Film Awards!
If you are an artist/filmmaker and our renewal intentions and values resonate with you, we invite you to share your work with us. If you are a funder and partner, we invite you to support our practice and not just the product. We look forward to building a community with you.
📅 The early deadline is November 1, 2023, and the final deadline is December 1, 2023.
🔗 Share your film with us at bit.ly/laapff

05/26/2023

Thank you again for joining us for the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival! 🎉 A special shoutout to our VC Members, sponsors, community partners, filmmakers, artists, and staff for making this festival possible.

If you liked this year's festival, please consider making a donation to support our work! Your donation will support our upcoming programs including: the 2024 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the Armed With a Camera Fellowship for Emerging Media Artists, and the Digital Histories program for older adults. Your support will also sustain and preserve our VC Archives, one of the largest photographic and moving image archives on Asian Pacific experiences in America. Join us on our journey!

Donate here: vcmedia.org/donate 💜

05/25/2023

EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD WINNERS

Visual Communications proudly presents the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and we feel so grateful to come together and celebrate our artists. Today we are thrilled to announce awards and recognitions to these especially moving films from this year’s festival:

⭐ EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD: Danny Kim of ZERO WASTE and Set Hernandez of UNSEEN

Congratulations! We are honored to have presented your film at the 🥳

05/25/2023

NARRATIVE FEATURES AWARD WINNERS

Visual Communications proudly presents the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and we feel so grateful to come together and celebrate our artists. Today we are thrilled to announce awards and recognitions to these especially moving films from this year’s festival:

⭐GRAND JURY AWARD – Best Narrative Feature: OLD NARCISSUS (老ナルキソス) directed by Tsuyoshi Shoji

⭐Special Jury Recognition: RED, WHITE & BRASS directed by Damon Fepulea’i and Halaifonua (Nua) Finau

⭐Special Jury Recognition: WHERE IS THE LIE directed by Quark Henares

⭐Special Jury Recognition: Rahat Mahajan, Director of THE CLOUD MESSENGER

⭐Special Jury Recognition for Cinematography: Alfonso Chin, Director of Photography of GOLDEN DELICIOUS

⭐Special Jury Recognition for Performance: Taijiro Tamura of OLD NARCISSUS

⭐Special Jury Recognition for Performance: Max Eigenmann of RAGING GRACE

Congratulations! We are honored to have presented your film at the 🎉

05/25/2023

SHORT AWARD WINNERS

Visual Communications proudly presents the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and we feel so grateful to come together and celebrate our artists. Today we are thrilled to announce awards and recognitions to these especially moving films from this year’s festival:

⭐GOLDEN REEL AWARD – Best Narrative Short: TAKE ME HOME directed by Liz Sargent

⭐GOLDEN REEL AWARD – Best Documentary Short: TO WRITE FROM MEMORY directed by Emory Chao Johnson

⭐LINDA MABALOT - New Directors | New Visions Award: THE VOYAGER’S LEGACY directed by Bailey Poching

⭐Special Jury Recognition: THE OLD YOUNG CROW (今昔カラス) directed by Liam LoPinto

⭐Special Jury Recognition: KE KAHEA: AN INVITATION INTO SACRED SPACE directed by Justyn Ah Chong

⭐Special Jury Recognition: BIRDSONG directed by Omi Zola Gupta, Sparsh Ahuja

⭐Special Jury Recognition: NǍI NAI & WÀI PÓ (GRANDMA & GRANDMA) directed by Sean Wang

Congratulations! We are honored to have presented your film at the 🎉

05/25/2023

AUDIENCE AWARDS

Visual Communications proudly presents the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and we feel so grateful to come together and celebrate our artists. Today we are thrilled to announce awards and recognitions to these especially moving films from this year’s festival:

⭐ AUDIENCE AWARD – Documentary Feature: UNSEEN directed by Set Hernandez and LIQUOR STORE DREAMS directed by So Yun Um

⭐AUDIENCE AWARD - Narrative Feature: MY PARTNER directed by Keliʻi Grace and STARRING JERRY AS HIMSELF directed by Law Chen

Congratulations! We are honored to have presented your film at the 🎉

05/25/2023

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES AWARD WINNERS

Visual Communications proudly presents the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and we feel so grateful to come together and celebrate our artists. Today we are thrilled to announce awards and recognitions to these especially moving films from this year’s festival:

⭐GRAND JURY AWARD – Best Documentary Feature: FLY IN POWER directed by Yin Q. and Yoon Grace Ra

⭐Special Jury Recognition: WHO IS NEXT? directed by Nurzhamal Karamoldoeva, Sultan Usuvaliev

⭐Special Jury Recognition: IN SEARCH OF BENGALI HARLEM directed by Alaudin Ullah, Vivek Bald

⭐Special Jury Recognition: UNSEEN directed by Set Hernandez

Congratulations! We are honored to have presented your film at the 🎉

05/09/2023

There's a wealth of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Island, diasporic and Asian international cinema at LAAPFF 2023—here's what to keep an eye on.

05/08/2023

And that's a wrap on WEEKEND 1 🥳

It was a pleasure to kickoff the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival with our amazing community of filmmakers and film enthusiasts in Little Tokyo. A big shout out to our VC Members, donors, sponsors, community partners, and venues for making this festival possible — we would not be here today without you all!

Don't forget to check out our Virtual Cinema programs NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE: https://festival.vcmedia.org/2023/schedule/

In-person programming resumes on Wednesday, May 10th at Gardena Cinema!

05/02/2023

VIBE CHECK: AA & PI in Community

Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! We are thrilled to continue to share and amplify the voices of several Asian and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander storytellers at ! Today, we are highlighting six films that showcase the beautiful creative partnership of Asian and Pasifika artist communities. Catch these films at the from May 4-13!

🎥 KĀINGA (Dir. Angeline Loo, Asuka Sylvie, Ghazaleh Golbakhsh, HASH, Julie Zhu, Michelle Ang, Nahyeon Lee, Yamin Tun)
🎥 Armed With a Camera Vol. 2023 (Films by M. Kaleipumehana Cabral, Alexis Si'i, Veialu Aila-Unsworth, Peter Filimaua, Lauren To'omalatai, Misa Tupou)
🎥 INGIDENOUS NOW! (Films by Jus G., Conrad Lihilihi, Aree Kapa, Tahuaroa Ohia, Te Mahara Tamehana, Tiana Trego Hall, Kay Chan, Tiare Ribeaux)
🎥 Pacific Cinewaves (Films by Erin Lau, Kahu KAIHA, Angelique Kalani Axelrode, Justyn Ah Chong, Bailey Poching, Derek Felipe, Fa'avae Fa'avae, Michael Gray, Scott W. Kekama Amona
🎥 Trenton: To the Moon & Back (Dir. Josh Leong)
🎥 The Wind & The Reckoning (Dir. David L. Cunningham)

Visit festival.vcmedia.org for more information and to get tickets!

04/29/2023

VIBE CHECK: CROSS CONNECTIONS

Our festival takes great pride in exhibiting films from filmmakers who weave stories that inspire imaginative approaches to storytelling as a way to create systemic change. We'd like to highlight a few of the films that sparked something in us to imagine a brighter future full of creativity, inclusion, and equity. Mark your calendars for May 4-13!

🎥 KĀINGA (Dir. Angeline Loo, Asuka Sylvie, Ghazaleh Golbakhsh, HASH, Julie Zhu, Michelle Ang, Nahyeon Lee, Yamin Tun)
🎥 The Harvest (Dir. Caylee So)
🎥 Refuge After War (Dir. Thanh Tan)
🎥 KAPWA TEXAS (Dir. PJ Raval)
🎥 The Village (Dir. Seric Aprymov)
🎥 Cloud Messenger (Dir. Rahat Mahajan)

Visit festival.vcmedia.org for more information and to get tickets!

04/28/2023

VIBE CHECK: IN ANOTHER LIFE...

When a loved one passes, how do we stay open to the messages and lessons they leave for us? These films, both narrative and documentary works, show different ways that that our hearts stay connected to those have moved on to the next life. Watch these films at the from May 4-13!

🎥 SOUL FOOD (Dir. Emily Teera)
🎥 Dinner is Ready (Dir. Eleanor Cho)
🎥 IN SEARCH OF BENGALI HARLEM (Dir. Alaudin Ullah, Vivek Bald)
🎥 The Van (Dir. Bernard Badion)
🎥 Many Moons (Dir. Chisato Hughes)
🎥 The Old Young Crow (Dir. Liam LoPinto)

Visit festival.vcmedia.org for more information and to get tickets!

04/27/2023

VIBE CHECK: TO ALL THE (SPORTS) BOYS I LOVED

A love letter to all the sports fans out there 💌 You do not want to miss these films at the (May 4-13). Who knows... there may even be a few former NBA players doing a Q&A 🤫

🎥 The Grizzlie Truth (Dir. Kathleen S. Jayme)
🎥 Red, White, and Brass (Dir. Damon Fepulea'i)
🎥 Black Belts (Dir. Spencer Glover)
🎥 SÒNG PÈI XĪNG (Dir. Jocelyn Song)
🎥 Dame Valerie Adams: More Than Gold (Dir. Briar March)
🎥 Golden Delicious (Dir. Jason Karman)

Visit festival.vcmedia.org for more information and to get tickets!

04/26/2023

VIBE CHECK: UNDERSTANDING IS A TWO-WAY STREET

"The Only Way to Survive is by Taking Care of One Another" - Grace Lee Boggs
Whether it is a parent, sibling, friend, or stranger, everyone has a story. With WELLNESS as another guiding principle for this year's festival, we are proud to present films that connect us and cultivate emotional wellness. Catch these films at the from May 4-13!

🎥 Sweet Refuge (Dir. Maryam Mir)
🎥 Wisdom Gone Wild (Dir. Rea Tajiri)
🎥 Running (Dir. Arpita Mukherjee)
🎥 Snack (Dir. Lauren To'omalatai)
🎥 Take Me Home (Dir. Liz Sargent)
🎥 Tracing History (Dir. Jalena Keane-Lee)

Visit festival.vcmedia.org for more information and to get tickets!

04/25/2023

INTRODUCING R3:NEWAL
Searching for wellness and joy at the Festival continues with our growing practice of restoration, regeneration, and renewal. For this year’s , we renew the annual C3: Conference for Creative Content by disrupting it. Instead of C3:Conference, Visual Communications presents R3:NEWAL, a series of restorative activities and gatherings to connect peoples as themselves, instead of our titles as artists and creators.

In industry spaces, we often have to perform what we do, instead of who we are. While we intersect as artists and creators, we are deeply connected as people who are engaging challenges stemming from recent events around the pandemic, especially our shared experiences around grief.

In centering wellness and joy, we have to focus on what creates unwellness and what brings us unhappiness. The Festival is not a solution to magically creating wellness and joy in our lives, but we have to disrupt systems that produce unwell practices of extraction and harm. While we are not fully resourced to do the work to create a wide impact, we have to begin.

Throughout the festival, we will be hosting R3:NEWAL B/reakout activities designed for artists to connect with each other. We will also be presenting in-person and online industry conversations around wellness and joy with Festival guests. From discussions on how to engage against inequities, finding deep connections through shared trauma, and to restoring just futures, we share our agency in creating collective power. R3 Conversations are FREE and open to the public.

Learn more: festival.vcmedia.org/2023/r3/

04/22/2023

VIBE CHECK: THE WORLD IS OUR HOME

From Native Hawaiians sharing their voyages in and out of diaspora to farmers facing the pressures of modernization to exploring the consequences of decades of environmental degradation, our Asian and Pacific Islander stories and storytellers remind us that THE WORLD IS OUR HOME and is every day 🌏❤️ You can watch these films at (May 4-13)!

🎥 KE KAHEA: AN INVITATION INTO SACRED SPACE (Dir. Justyn Ah Chong)
🎥 Ours is the Sky (Dir. Enzo Ventura)
🎥 KA ʻĀʻUMEʻUME: NAVIGATING HOME (Dir. M. Kaleipumehana Cabral)
🎥 Zero Waste (Dir. Danny Kim)

Visit festival.vcmedia.org for more information and to get tickets!

04/21/2023

VIBE CHECK: IMPACT & INSPIRATION

At this year's festival, we're excited to share a group of diverse Asian and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander stories that create an IMPACT and build solidarity. Check out these INSPIRING films at from May 4-13 in select cinemas in Los Angeles!

🎥 Birdsong (Dir. Omi Zola Gupta, Sparsh Ahuja)
🎥 UNSEEN (Dir. Set Hernandez)
🎥 WHETŪ MĀRAMA / BRIGHT STAR (Dir. Aileen O'Sullivan, Toby Mills)
🎥 Fly in Power(Dir. Yin Q, Yoon Grace Ra)
🎥 Nowhere But Here (Dir. Brandon Soun)
🎥 Big Fight in Little Chinatown (Dir. Karen Cho)

Visit festival.vcmedia.org for more information and to get tickets!

04/20/2023

VIBE CHECK: GROWING PAINS

Growing up is not easy. Watch these stories of identity and self-discovery unfold at on May 4-13!

🎥 This Time (Dir. Sebastien Tobler)
🎥 Jamojaya (Dir. Justin Chon)
🎥 The Vacation (Dir. Jarreau Carrillo)
🎥 Golden Delicious (Dir. Jason Karman)
🎥 No No Girl (Dir. Paul Daisuke Goodman)
🎥 The Weather Inside (Dir. Jonny Chang, Solomon Chang, Tiffany Ike)

Visit festival.vcmedia.org for more information and to get tickets!

04/18/2023

VIBE CHECK: LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE

With JOY as one of our guiding principles for this year's festival, we're excited to highlight a few of the films that bring us joy. Get ready to LIVE, LAUGH, AND LOVE with these films on May 4-13!

🎥 A Purpose Driven Life (Dir. Fran Ito)
🎥 Zenaida (Dir. San-San Onglatco)
🎥 NǍI NAI & WÀI PÓ (GRANDMA & GRANDMA) (Dir. Sean Wang)
🎥 MEIHOUWANG (Dir. Justin Ni)
🎥 Mysore Magic (Dir. Abijeet Achar)
🎥 Oh-Cha (Dir. Lilan Bowden)

Visit festival.vcmedia.org for more information and to get tickets!

04/13/2023

Kickoff the 39th edition of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month with our communities through music, food, and art at the Japanese American National Museum.

Disrupting our traditional model of an Opening Night Film and Party, we invite and share space with ALL communities through this FREE event. In collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum, admission to the museum's exhibits will be free throughout the evening.

RSVP at festival.vcmedia.org/2023/special_events/kickoff/

🕔 May 4 @ 6PM - 9PM
📍Aratani Central Hall & JANM Plaza (100 N. Central Ave, Los Angeles, 90012)
💰 FREE

Festival Cinematic Presentations will begin on the following day in Little Tokyo. For more information, please visit festival.vcmedia.org

04/11/2023

Tickets are NOW on sale for the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival! 📣

After months of anticipation, we are pleased to bring you another exciting eight days of film and events from May 4 to May 13, 2023. Join us as we continue to uplift Linda’s regenerative impact and cultural abundance and work to create spaces for expression, engagement, and empowerment.

🔗 Visit festival.vcmedia.org to explore our full programming lineup and to get tickets!

04/07/2023

AND WE ARE LIVE! 2023 🎉 The full programming schedule is now available on our festival website! (festival.vcmedia.org)

Visual Communications is proud to present the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) from May 4 to May 13, 2023. This year, we are thrilled to rededicate our renewed work and upcoming Festival to Linda Mabalot and her vision of creating community with Artists and Allies. Join us at this year's festival as we present both in-person and virtual screenings, seminars, panels, and filmmaker awards.

📆 General sale begins MONDAY, APRIL 10 @ 5PM (PST)

03/15/2023

GET READY FOR 🎉

As we near the launch of the 39th edition of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, we continue to uplift Linda’s regenerative impact and cultural abundance to VC and our communities. The Festival’s Renewal towards joy and wellness reflect Linda's vision of creating community with Artists and Allies. We rededicate our renewed work and upcoming Festival to Linda’s everlasting values as we honor the 20th anniversary of her passing.

Today, we're thrilled to share our Festival key art. An image of Linda that inspires finding joy in our journeys 💜

LAAPFF will feature both in-person and virtual screenings, seminars, panels, and filmmaker awards. The screenings will be spread out among the following venues: Little Tokyo, Regal LA Live, and Gardena Cinema. The festival will be back May 4-13, 2023 and we’re bringing MEMBERSHIP back with us!
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Our new membership program offers year-round benefits, including invites to exclusive events, complimentary and discounted tickets to LAAPFF, pre-sale access, and much more. All contributions help to fund VC’s programming throughout the year. Become a VC Member today ✨ ⁠
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🔗 Learn more at vcmedia.org/membership

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Vivian Nguyen (.artist) is an artist and graphic designer, currently studying Design | Media Arts at UCLA. Ever since childhood, she’s had a passion for the arts. However, as she grew up in a low-income family, it was difficult to continue pursuing her passion for drawing when her family did not approve of the creative field. However, she didn’t give up on her dream. She has gravitated towards UX and visual design as her career path, but dabbles in art and drawing in her free time.

03/14/2023

Congratulations to The Elephant Whisperers 2022 team for being awarded Best Short Documentary Film at the 2023 Academy Awards! 🎉 Check out the heartwarming film on Netflix!

03/03/2023

“We didn’t have access to the major museums to exhibit works; so our organization, as well as other organizations, took on the responsibility of showing and exhibiting these [Asian and NHPI] films. Because we felt they were important. Our community of filmmakers have something to say.” - Linda Mabalot (Visual Communications Executive Director 1985-2003) on connecting films to audiences.

FESTIVAL RENEWAL UPDATE 📣 Visual Communications is an organization founded on COMMUNITY. Learn more about what our community means to us through Chapter 2: The Value of Community, which is now available on our website. https://vcmedia.org/laapff-2023

01/18/2023

“How can we utilize media as a form to empower our communities?”
- Linda Mabalot (Visual Communications Executive Director 1985-2003)

As we enter 2023 and begin a new Festival season, we rededicate our upcoming work to Linda’s regenerative impact and cultural abundance to VC and our communities. We are called to be in closer community with Artists and Allies in order to build a Festival that fosters wellness and joy. LAAPFF intends to engage communities in reflections and conversations that empower and inspire.

To build stronger connections to communities we serve, we will continue to add individual chapters to the Festival Renewal page, to shed light on our process and the values that inform our process. Chapter 1: VC Values and the LAAPFF Programming Team is now available on our website: https://vcmedia.org/laapff2023renewal

12/31/2022

🎆 Today is the FINAL DAY to share your film to the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, presented by Visual Communications! Stay tuned for from May 4 to May 13, 2023 which will feature a robust lineup of in-person and virtual programming. LAAPFF is also an Academy Award®-qualifying Festival for the Short Film Awards!

Visit https://vcmedia.org/laapff-2023 for more info! We look forward to being in community again with y'all in the new year!

12/29/2022

"Whether we are producing media, or whether we are in an advocacy role. Our work is not over" - Linda Mabalot, Executive Director (1985 - 2003)

With joy and wellness as our guiding principles for the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, we are reminded of former VC Executive Director, Linda Mabalot.

There are 3 DAYS LEFT until the CALL FOR ENTRIES CLOSES 🤯 The final deadline to share your film for is THIS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31ST. If you are interested in sharing your film/mediawork for , visit vcmedia.org/laapff-2023.

12/27/2022

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN 🏃 The final deadline to share your film for the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is THIS SATURDAY. If you are interested in sharing your film/mediawork for , visit vcmedia.org/laapff-2023 by Saturday, December 31st!

Save the date for , presented by Visual Communications from May 4 to May 13. The festival will feature a robust lineup of in-person programming, along with virtual programming for our audiences at home in Southern California and beyond. LAAPFF is also an Academy Award®-qualifying Festival for the Short Film Awards!

12/22/2022

Time's running out ⏰ The FINAL deadline to share your film to the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is next week, Saturday, December 31st!

Stay tuned for from May 4 to May 13, which will feature a robust lineup of in-person programming, along with virtual programming for our audiences at home in Southern California and beyond. LAAPFF is also an Academy Award®-qualifying Festival for the Short Film Awards! Learn more at vcmedia.org/laapff-2023

11/29/2022

Have you shared your film for yet? The early deadline to share your film to the 2023 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is TOMORROW, NOVEMBER 30! ⏰

Stay tuned for from May 4 to May 13, which will feature a robust lineup of in-person programming, along with virtual programming for our audiences at home in Southern California and beyond. LAAPFF is also an Academy Award®-qualifying Festival for the Short Film Awards! Entry prices go up after November 30th, and the FINAL deadline to share your film is December 31st! Learn more at vcmedia.org/laapff-2023

11/02/2022

“Whether we are producing media, or whether we are in an advocacy role... Our work is not over” - Linda Mabalot (Visual Communications Executive Director 1985-2003)

As we celebrate the 52+years of Visual Communications and approach the 39th edition of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), we are humbled to continue the work guided by these words from our former Executive Director, Linda Mabalot. We begin a new Festival season by rededicating our upcoming work to Linda’s regenerative impact and cultural abundance to VC and our communities. We are called to be in closer community with Artists and Allies in order to build a Festival that fosters wellness and joy.

With these festival values in mind, Call for Entries is NOW OPEN! Visual Communications is proud to present the 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival from May 4 to May 13, 2023. The Festival will feature a robust lineup of in-person programming, along with virtual programming for audiences at home in Southern California and beyond. LAAPFF is also an Academy Award®-qualifying Festival for the Short Film Awards! The early deadline is November 30, 2022, and the final deadline is December 31, 2022.

Read more about our renewal efforts and share your film: https://vcmedia.org/laapff-2023

10/19/2022

Thank you to all who came out to watch and celebrate the films and filmmaking talents with us this past Saturday! It was amazing to see folks be in community — shocked, moved, energized etc. — with each other over some brilliant films in a physical space. We hope to bring more events celebrating diverse cinematic voices of Asian and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander artists through our LAAPFF PRESENTS series in the future!

10/11/2022

The supernova star power of Hong Kong cinema icons Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, and Anita Mui propels narrative feature ‼️THE HEROIC TRIO‼️. They are the knife-throwing, shotgun-toting, kung-fu-fighting super-heroines who must overcome their dark pasts in order to defeat an evil, baby-snatching eu**ch who is terrorizing Hong Kong.

This gloriously unrestrained action extravaganza from genre maestro Johnnie To injects martial-arts mayhem with a blast of comic-book lunacy. Eye-popping motorcycle stunts, brain-exploding skeletons, infant cannibals, and kinetically choreographed wire work are all part of the delirium in this unstoppably entertaining cult favorite (referenced in Cheung’s international breakthrough Irma Vep), a kick-butt showcase for three of the coolest women warriors to ever hit the screen.

Join us on October 15, 2022 as we present THE HEROIC TRIO (on the big screen😍) in a special day of film screenings at LAAPFF PRESENTS: HONG KONG GENERATIONS OF CINEMA, taking place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Ave.

To view the film lineup and to secure a ticket, please visit

10/04/2022

🎬TWILIGHT'S KISS🎬 is a quiet portrayal of a relationship between two men in their twilight years.

Pak, a 70-year-old taxi driver who refuses to retire, meets Hoi, a retired 65-year-old single father at a park. Despite the families they had built respectively, the encounter sparks a desire that they had both suppressed and leads to a contemplation of a life together.

Join us on 👉October 15, 2022 as we present TWILIGHT’S KISS (dir. Ray Yeung), in a special day of film screenings at LAAPFF PRESENTS: HONG KONG GENERATIONS OF CINEMA taking place at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Ave. View the film lineup and to secure a ticket: https://laapffpresents.eventive.org/welcome

09/27/2022

We are glad to be in community with artist and graphic designer Vivian Nguyen, who created the beautiful artwork for LAAPFF PRESENTS: HONG KONG GENERATIONS OF CINEMA. Read the latest in VC blog to learn more about Vivian and her inspirations behind this artwork! Thank you, Vivian!

Join us on October 15, 2022 for this special day of film screenings at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Ave. To view the film lineup and to secure a ticket, please visit https://laapffpresents.eventive.org/welcome

Follow IG .artist to see more of Vivian's art, and to see a short time-lapse on how the poster art is created!

09/26/2022

The award-winning crowdfunded action comedy LUMPIA WITH A VENGEANCE, screened at last year's 37th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, will be rolling out in select theaters nationwide starting September 30!

In the Los Angeles area, it will screen at 👉Regal Edwards Long Beach👈 with expanded locations to follow depending on strength of presales. For tickets and screening info: https://bit.ly/lumpiatour

09/20/2022

To celebrate veteran and emerging storytellers to come out of Hong Kong, on Saturday October 15th, we will start the day with a special shorts program featuring works from ✨✨Esther Cheung, Kristi Ho, Linhan Zhang, Natalie Chao, and Wong Kar Wai✨✨.

LAAPFF PRESENTS: HONG KONG GENERATIONS OF CINEMA is sponsored by Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco (HKETO). All screenings take place at MOCA GRAND.

To view the film lineup and to secure a ticket please go to https://vcmedia.org/latest-news/laapffpresents-hongkongcinema

Films in the Shorts Program include⬇
🎬IN PASSING - Animated Short directed by Esther Cheung
🎬NO LAW NO HEAVEN- Narrative Short directed by Kristi Hoi
🎬THE HAND - Narrative short directed by Wong Kar Wai
🎬THE LAST FERRY FROM GRASS ISLAND - Narrative directed by Linhan Zhang
🎬TO KNOW HER - Documentary directed by Natalie Chao

09/16/2022

We are pleased to announce a special October event for you!!

LAAPFF PRESENTS: HONG KONG GENERATIONS OF CINEMA, sponsored by Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco (HKETO), will be a 1-day showcase on Oct 15, 2022 celebrating the diverse storytelling talent to come out of Hong Kong and uplifts its impact on audiences all over the globe.

The event will be the first installation of LAAPFF PRESENTS - a new year-round series from the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival celebrating cinematic voices of Asian and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander artists.

Visit to view the film lineup, more event detail and secure a ticket!

Los Angeles, CA - The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) announced lineup for LAAPFF PRESENTS: HONG KONG GENERATIONS OF CINEMA, sponsored by Hong Kong Economic And Trade Office, San Francisco (HKETO) . The special 1-day showcase will take place on October 15th in Los Angeles, at the