Visual Communications

Visual Communications Connecting Communities Through Media Arts Since 1970

These past few years, Visual Communications has had the honor of collaborating with the UCLA Asian American Studies Cent...
05/29/2026

These past few years, Visual Communications has had the honor of collaborating with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center to produce Foundations and Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook 🚀 VC is featured alongside AAPI media trailblazers like the Center for Asian American Media , Asian CineVision , and Pacific Islanders in Communications 💫

Written by more than 100 scholars, journalists, organizers, and community historians, the textbook spans over 20 AAPI ethnic communities across the United States, its territories, and the Pacific. With an extensive archive of videos, photographs, audio clips, poems, and interviews, Foundations and Futures is the most comprehensive collection of Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and perspectives available for free and online!

🔗 Check out the website: foundationsandfutures.org

We're thrilled to have presented four AWC films at the Satellite Screening: Q***r Asian World Cinema in Oakland last w...
05/27/2026

We're thrilled to have presented four AWC films at the Satellite Screening: Q***r Asian World Cinema in Oakland last week! 💫

Thank you for having us QWOCMAP - Q***r Women of Color Media Arts Project 💛

This past weekend, the Venice Japanese Community Center () presented their first ever film screening, Nikkei Movie Night...
05/27/2026

This past weekend, the Venice Japanese Community Center () presented their first ever film screening, Nikkei Movie Night 🇯🇵 🎥 which featured six short films, including "THE SANSEI PROJECT" from our artist, Robert Shoji ⭐️

With over 200 people in attendance, this event was packed with community, impact, and joy 💛

Strap on your best cowboy boots because Armed With a Camera Vol. 2026 is yee-hawing all the way to HOUSTON for 🤠We're ...
05/27/2026

Strap on your best cowboy boots because Armed With a Camera Vol. 2026 is yee-hawing all the way to HOUSTON for 🤠

We're thrilled to present ALL SIX AWC short films at from May 29 – June 14, 2026! In addition, AWC Mentor will be presenting her short film "Creatures of Chaos" at the Festival. AWC Alum and Senior Festival Programmer will also be in attendance as a HAAPIFEST juror!

🎟 Tickets for all programs are available now on www.haapifest.org

THIRD ACT is now streaming on PBS' Independent Lens 📺Premiering at Sundance Film Festival in 2025, Third Act, directed ...
05/25/2026

THIRD ACT is now streaming on PBS' Independent Lens 📺

Premiering at Sundance Film Festival in 2025, Third Act, directed by Tadashi Nakamura, has screened at over 30 film festivals, including our very own in 2025!

🎥 If you haven't had the chance to see it or want to relive the experience, stream Third Act now!

is thrilled to partner with the LA City Hall for to present In Movement: A Legacy of AANHPI Athletes 🏀 This exhibit ...
05/22/2026

is thrilled to partner with the LA City Hall for to present In Movement: A Legacy of AANHPI Athletes 🏀 This exhibit draws from the Visual Communications Archives to present photographs of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) athletes across the past half century of American sports. From Olympic arenas and neighborhood softball fields to incarceration camps and community halls, each image is a story of resilience and identity across a half century of AANHPI life.

The stories here are about more than sport. They are about belonging, about who gets to take up space, about communities that built their own leagues and tournaments and programs when the door was closed to them.

In Movement is located at the Henry P. Rio Bridge Gallery at City Hall and is open from May 1-31, 2026, and is presented as part of Visual Communications’ ongoing commitment to the preservation and presentation of AANHPI cultural history.

[ID: 1. Koreatown Youth Center, 5th Annual Mini Olympics
2. Kristi Yamaguchi at the 1992 Winter Olympics
3. Muay Thai at the 1986 Asian Pacific Heritage Week
4. Samoan American Softball, Carson
5. Heart Mountain Football
6. Scott Fujimoto, Champion Swimmer]

05/22/2026

And just like that, 42 is in the books 💫

Over the course of 5 days, we had the pleasure of hosting you in our home. To provide you all with a place to inspire and champion each other. We kicked off on Wednesday at Hello Stranger in our familiar neighborhood then made a pitstop in WeHo before returning to Little Tokyo and Monterey Park.

On this year’s caravan, we saw a meeting of old friends and new faces, artists and enthusiasts, generations and cultures. Through our programming and events we constantly aim for connection. To see all of you share stories, conversations, laughs, tears, and applause really harmonized throughout the Festival.

Our success isn’t dictated by what happened this year, but by what happens years to come. And so if you did attend a screening, panel, event or workshop and had a positive experience in community with us, please help keep spreading the word about VC and please consider donating at 🔗 vcmedia.org/donate. We appreciate it as it is critical to us going so that we can continue to serve you. We hope that you will be a part of it again.

See you soon,
Visual Communications 💜

We're thrilled to support our Digital Histories artist, Robert Shoji, this Saturday at for Nikkei Movie Night 🇯🇵 🎥 Join...
05/20/2026

We're thrilled to support our Digital Histories artist, Robert Shoji, this Saturday at for Nikkei Movie Night 🇯🇵 🎥 Join us for an evening of film screenings featuring stories and filmmakers from the Japanese American community!

📅 Saturday, May 23, 2026
🕠 Doors open at 5:30PM (PST), Program starts at 6:30PM (PST)
📍 Venice Japanese Community Center (12448 Braddock Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90066)
Parking at the VJCC will be available as well as street parking in the surrounding area.
🎟 ADMISSION IS FREE, BUT RSVP IS REQUIRED. vjcc.shelbynextchms.com/external/form/ff1fa95c-3554-44f8-a6e7-b16a472952db

Digital Histories 2026 is going up North this weekend (5/22 - 5/24) for the 10th Annual Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Fe...
05/20/2026

Digital Histories 2026 is going up North this weekend (5/22 - 5/24) for the 10th Annual Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival () 🎥 💫

Eight films from our latest cohort will be presented as part of the "Voices Across Generations" Shorts Program – get your tickets now!

📅 Sunday, May 24, 2026 12:30PM (PST)
📍 The Sofia, Home of B Street Theatre (2700 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95816)
🎟 Get your tickets at SAPFF.org! Discounted prices available for seniors and youth!

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