Visual Communications Movies
- 2022
People Unite!
People Unite!02022HD
In the face of AAPI violence, an intergenerational coalition of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, People of Color organizers come together to...
- 2022
Lisa Mania
Lisa Mania02022HD
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...
- 1980
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner01980HD
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...
- 1976
Wataridori: Birds of Passage
Wataridori: Birds of Passage01976HD
This important tribute to the issei (first generation Japanese Americans) integrates the stories of three people who describe a collective history...
- 2024
Daughter of Guam
Daughter of Guam02024HD
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...
- 2012
Lil Tokyo Reporter
Lil Tokyo Reporter02012HD
1935 Los Angeles, community leader Sei Fujii uncovers the corrupt activities of his community's underground mafia. He must choose between saving the...
- 1975
Cruisin' J-Town
Cruisin' J-Town01975HD
Celebrates the music and influences of contemporary Asian American culture on Dan Kuramoto, June Okida Kuramoto, and Johnny Mori — three...
- 2016
I Hate Big Phony
I Hate Big Phony02016HD
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...
- 1975
Kites and Other Tales
Kites and Other Tales01975HD
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...
- 2023
unseen
unseen02023HD
An aspiring social worker, Pedro must confront political restrictions as a blind, undocumented immigrant to get his college degree and support his...
- 2017
Disintegration 93-96
Disintegration 93-9662017HD
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...
- 2020
The Many Pink Triangles
The Many Pink Triangles02020HD
This documentary tells the story of the LGBTTI communities who have suffered persecution, prison and torture for their sexual condition under...
- 2020
Thank You, Come Again
Thank You, Come Again02020HD
After the trigger of a hate crime, an undocumented Indian American convenience store clerk comes crashing into his subconscious as he grieves the...
- 2023
Butterfly/Bataplai
Butterfly/Bataplai02023HD
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...
- 2024
Come Together
Come Together02024HD
Inspired by the 1978 documentary “Omai Fa’atasi: Samoa Mo Samoa,” a teenage girl growing up in a strict Samoan household lives the...
- 2020
Dear Sally,
Dear Sally,02020HD
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...
- 2017
Samoan Americans in Carson
Samoan Americans in Carson02017HD
June Pouesi, director of the Office of Samoan Affairs, describes the waves of immigration from American Samoa that led to the development of the...
- 1981
Vaitafe: Running Water
Vaitafe: Running Water01981HD
A follow-up to the groundbreaking Visual Communications documentary OMAI FA'ATASI: SAMOA MO SAMOA, this fictionalized account of Vaitafe Futu, a...
- 1990
Claiming A Voice: The Visual Communications Story
Claiming A Voice: The Visual Communications Story01990HD
Documentary on the Los Angeles-based media arts group, Visual Communications. The one-hour film chronicles their first twenty years, 1970-1990, of...
- 1987
Na Pua O Laka
Na Pua O Laka01987HD
NA PUA O LAKA foregrounds the perpetuation of the Hawaiian culture in Southern California. Sissy Kaʻio is a kumu hula, or teacher of Hula, who...