Visual Communications Popular Movie

The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in...

genus: Drama

cast: Mako

A young woman contends with her role as a Daughter of Guam. Contemplating the inherited burden of her island’s collective loss, the Daughter of...

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cast: Telesia Tedtaotao

An aspiring social worker, Pedro must confront political restrictions as a blind, undocumented immigrant to get his college degree and support his...

genus: Documentary

cast: Pedro

This important tribute to the issei (first generation Japanese Americans) integrates the stories of three people who describe a collective history...

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cast: Shizuko Hoshi

1935 Los Angeles, community leader Sei Fujii uncovers the corrupt activities of his community's underground mafia. He must choose between saving the...

genus: Drama

cast: Chris Tashima

After Dom begins having suspicions about his wife, he goes to the seemingly wrong person for advice, leading him down a rabbit hole of drug fueled...

genus: Comedy

cast: Tenzin Dhondup

In the face of AAPI violence, an intergenerational coalition of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, People of Color organizers come together to...

genus: Documentary

cast: Johanna Fernández

For all intents and purposes, 2015 was seemingly a banner year for singer/songwriter Bobby Choy (aka Big Phony). His melodic and quiet songs had...

genus: Documentary

cast: Bobby Choy

Celebrates the music and influences of contemporary Asian American culture on Dan Kuramoto, June Okida Kuramoto, and Johnny Mori — three...

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cast: Dan Kuramoto

After the trigger of a hate crime, an undocumented Indian American convenience store clerk comes crashing into his subconscious as he grieves the...

genus: Drama

cast: Nirav Bhakta

Living in the USA illegally for over 20 years, Miko Revereza reflects on his family's relocation from Manila to Los Angeles in this introspective...

genus: Documentary

cast: Miko Revereza

Modern kite maker Tom Joe seeks to preserve the craft of kite making as well as the traditional Asian folklore behind it. Alan Takemoto illustrates...

genus: Documentary

cast: Tom Joe

Inspired by the 1978 documentary “Omai Fa’atasi: Samoa Mo Samoa,” a teenage girl growing up in a strict Samoan household lives the...

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This documentary tells the story of the LGBTTI communities who have suffered persecution, prison and torture for their sexual condition under...

genus: Documentary

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Raya loves makeup but her family does not. She’s torn between her secret dream of being a makeup artist and her family’s strict religious...

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cast: Regina Pande

In 1953, a young man in Los Angeles wrote to a young woman in St. Louis. The letters between the pen pals evolved into a courtship that spanned over...

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June Pouesi, director of the Office of Samoan Affairs, describes the waves of immigration from American Samoa that led to the development of the...

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A follow-up to the groundbreaking Visual Communications documentary OMAI FA'ATASI: SAMOA MO SAMOA, this fictionalized account of Vaitafe Futu, a...

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cast: Bert Seugogo Schirmer

Documentary on the Los Angeles-based media arts group, Visual Communications. The one-hour film chronicles their first twenty years, 1970-1990, of...

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The dilemmas and challenges facing Samoan Americans are frankly explored in this film about Omai Fa’atasi, a Southern Californian community...

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