From Visual Communications Studios


  • 1980
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    Hito Hata: Raise the Banner

    Hito Hata: Raise the Banner

    1 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 2022
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    People Unite!

    People Unite!

    1 2022 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    Lil Tokyo Reporter

    Lil Tokyo Reporter

    1 2012 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Thank You, Come Again

    Thank You, Come Again

    1 2020 HD

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

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  • 1976
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    Wataridori: Birds of Passage

    Wataridori: Birds of Passage

    1 1976 HD

    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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  • 2024
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    Daughter of Guam

    Daughter of Guam

    1 2024 HD

    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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  • 2022
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    Lisa Mania

    Lisa Mania

    1 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    1 2023 HD

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

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  • 2016
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    I Hate Big Phony

    I Hate Big Phony

    1 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 1975
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    Cruisin' J-Town

    Cruisin' J-Town

    1 1975 HD

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

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  • 2017
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    Disintegration 93-96

    Disintegration 93-96

    6.00 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 1975
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    Kites and Other Tales

    Kites and Other Tales

    1 1975 HD

    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...

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  • 2024
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    Come Together

    Come Together

    1 2024 HD

    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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  • 2023
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    Butterfly/Bataplai

    Butterfly/Bataplai

    1 2023 HD

    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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  • 2020
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    The Many Pink Triangles

    The Many Pink Triangles

    1 2020 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Dear Sally,

    Dear Sally,

    1 2020 HD

    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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  • 2017
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    Samoan Americans in Carson

    Samoan Americans in Carson

    1 2017 HD

    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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  • 1981
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    Vaitafe: Running Water

    Vaitafe: Running Water

    1 1981 HD

    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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  • 1990
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    Claiming A Voice: The Visual Communications Story

    Claiming A Voice: The Visual Communications Story

    1 1990 HD

    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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  • 1978
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    Omai Fa'atasi: Samoa Mo Samoa

    Omai Fa'atasi: Samoa Mo Samoa

    1 1978 HD

    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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