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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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mako

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pedro

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

Genre: 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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bobby Choy

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nirav Bhakta

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chris Tashima

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Joe

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

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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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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tenzin Dhondup

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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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Miko Revereza

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

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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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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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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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 both...

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Cast: Sissy Kaʻio

Capturing the all-American fervor of parade competition, CHINATOWN 2-STEP profiles the Los Angeles Chinese Drum and Bugle Corps, an important fixture...

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A lyrical, expressive film history of Asian Pacific Americans on the Sacramento River delta.

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