Celebrate with Visual Communications as they present the 41st edition of the VC Film Fest (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival) from May 1–7, 2025. The festival is the premier showcase for the best and brightest of Asian Pacific cinema and has presented over 5,000 films, videos, and digital mediaworks by Asian and Pacific Islander artists since 1983.
The Democracy Center at JANM is excited to be one of the LAAPFF venues. A variety of films will be shown at this venue, including the short films of Little Tokyo & Other Tales, the cooking show series The Grocery List Show, and the world premiere of the documentary Yonsei about a daughter caught between honoring her family's privacy and creating a compelling narrative as she adapts her mother's story for the screen.
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