Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival VC Film Fest (Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival) is Southern California's premier showcase for Asian and Asian Pacific cinema.

LINDA MABALOT NEW VISIONS AWARD WINNER 🎉Former Visual Communications Executive Director Linda Mabalot is lovingly reme...
05/07/2026

LINDA MABALOT NEW VISIONS AWARD WINNER 🎉

Former Visual Communications Executive Director Linda Mabalot is lovingly remembered for her passion and commitment to nurturing and developing emerging Asian Pacific filmmakers. In that spirit, the Linda Mabalot New Visions Award is presented to two short films that demonstrates an innovative and creative use of cinematic language.

🏆 Linda Mabalot New Visions Award
WE BUY GOLD (Dir. David Huang and Albie Smith)

🏆 Linda Mabalot New Visions Award:
Correspondence (Dir. Paul K. Oh)

Congratulations! We are honored to have presented your film at this year's 💫 View the full list of award winners here: bit.ly/laapffawards2026

EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD WINNERS 🎉Visual Communications proudly presents the 42nd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festi...
05/07/2026

EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD WINNERS 🎉

Visual Communications proudly presents the 42nd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and we feel so grateful to come together and celebrate our artists. Today, we are thrilled to announce awards and recognitions to these especially impactful emerging filmmakers:

🏆 EMERGING FILMMAKER AWARD
Yuzhu Hao and Yanv Chen, Directors of Chasing the Star

Congratulations! We are honored to have presented your film at this year's 💫 View the full list of award winners here: bit.ly/laapffawards2026

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS AWARD WINNERS 🎉The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is a proud Academy Award®-qualifying fil...
05/07/2026

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS AWARD WINNERS 🎉

The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is a proud Academy Award®-qualifying film festival for Short Film Awards. Recipient(s) of the Film Festival’s Golden Reel Award for Narrative/Animated and Documentary Short Films will be eligible to submit in the Animated Short Film/Live-Action Short Film category of the Academy Awards®.

This year's shorts navigate the intimate and the infinite: stories of the neighborhood, the diaspora, and the truths we carry. From voices screaming out loud to the surreal things that move in the night—through narrative, documentary, experimental, and animation—we held space for it all. Today, we are thrilled to announce awards and recognitions to these especially moving films from this year’s festival:

🏆 GOLDEN REEL AWARD - DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
In The Morning Sun (Dir. Serville Poblete)

⭐ SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR DIRECTING
Correct Me If I'm Wrong (Dir. Hao Zhou)

Congratulations! We are honored to have presented your film at this year's 💫 View the full list of award winners here: bit.ly/laapffawards2026

NARRATIVE SHORTS AWARD WINNERS 🎉The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is a proud Academy Award®-qualifying film ...
05/07/2026

NARRATIVE SHORTS AWARD WINNERS 🎉

The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is a proud Academy Award®-qualifying film festival for Short Film Awards. Recipient(s) of the Film Festival’s Golden Reel Award for Narrative/Animated and Documentary Short Films will be eligible to submit in the Animated Short Film/Live-Action Short Film category of the Academy Awards®.

This year's shorts navigate the intimate and the infinite: stories of the neighborhood, the diaspora, and the truths we carry. From voices screaming out loud to the surreal things that move in the night—through narrative, documentary, experimental, and animation—we held space for it all. Today, we are thrilled to announce awards and recognitions to these especially moving films from this year’s festival:

🏆 GOLDEN REEL AWARD - BEST NARRATIVE SHORT:
Agapito (Dir. Arvin Belarmino and Kyla Romero)

⭐ SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR ACTING
Besieged (Dir. Kiarash Ardeshirpour, starring Sonia Sanjari)

Congratulations! We are honored to have presented your film at this year's 💫 View the full list of award winners here: bit.ly/laapffawards2026

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE AWARD WINNERS 🎉This year's documentary films go to places we might never reach, shaped by years of...
05/07/2026

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE AWARD WINNERS 🎉

This year's documentary films go to places we might never reach, shaped by years of attention to inaccessible lives and unknown realities. Timeless, poignant, and immersive, the films this year offer a lens through which we encounter the world more closely, expanding our understanding of the microcosms that surround us. Today, we are thrilled to announce awards and recognitions to these especially moving films from this year’s festival:

🏆 GRAND JURY AWARD - Best Documentary Feature
Always (Dir. Deming Chen)

⭐ SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR EDITING
Before the Moon Falls (Dir. Kimberlee Bassford, Editor Jessica Lee Salas)

Congratulations! We are honored to have presented your film at this year's 💫 View the full list of award winners here: bit.ly/laapffawards2026

NARRATIVE FEATURE AWARD WINNERS 🎉This year's narrative feature films spanned across landscapes and cultures. Character...
05/07/2026

NARRATIVE FEATURE AWARD WINNERS 🎉

This year's narrative feature films spanned across landscapes and cultures. Characters moving through cities, villages, and personal crossroads, discovering that the journey itself shapes the stories of our lives. Today, we are thrilled to announce awards and recognitions to these especially moving films from this year’s festival:

🏆 GRAND JURY AWARD - Best Narrative Feature
Lucky Lu (Dir. Lloyd Lee Choi)

⭐ SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR WRITING
Pinch (Dir. Uttera Singh, Writers Uttera Singh and Adam Linzey)

Congratulations! We are honored to have presented your film at this year's 💫 View the full list of award winners here: bit.ly/laapffawards2026

THIS is what community looks like at 💜Over 200 filmmakers and artists in one space to share their stories, make an imp...
05/02/2026

THIS is what community looks like at 💜

Over 200 filmmakers and artists in one space to share their stories, make an impact, and build everlasting connections at

We’re so grateful to be in community with all of you. This is what it means to show up, take up space, and uplift one another.

Look forward to more more screenings, conversations, and events this weekend!

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Thank you to everyone who came out to our Cinema Musica: Festival Launch Party at Hello Stranger LA! We’re so grateful t...
04/30/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to our Cinema Musica: Festival Launch Party at Hello Stranger LA! We’re so grateful to our artists, community partners, and supporters who showed up to celebrate opening night with us.

Special thanks to Little Tokyo favorites Aloha Cafe and Fugetsu-do for keeping us fueled and to HiFly DJ Events for the incredible vibes all night long.

And we’re just getting started! Join us today for our Opening Night Film Presentations at the Directors Guild of America and Landmark Theatres Sunset!

Welcome to the 42nd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, presented by Visual Communications 💛Since our founding in 1...
04/29/2026

Welcome to the 42nd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, presented by Visual Communications 💛

Since our founding in 1970, Visual Communications has existed to develop, support, and empower storytellers, artists, and mediamakers with the goal of uplifting individuals and communities.

Across 42 iterations of the Festival, we have had the pleasure of welcoming new members into our community each year—new artists, new Armed With a Camera Fellows, Digital Histories filmmakers, and now, Archives Artists in Residence among festival alumni whose work continues to thrive. Alongside them, we honor with reverence those whose footsteps we follow: pioneers, trailblazers, and longtime friends whose legacies remind us both how far we have come and how many similar challenges remain.
Times change. Art evolves. Progress, as we know, often takes time. And so, our purpose continues.

Once again, we surface from our home in the basement of the Union Center building in Little Tokyo to shed light and gather with you to celebrate, reflect, and imagine what comes next.

Our history and our tomorrow will be written by all of us, together.

And through it all, we remain committed to our promise to showcase, preserve, and remember.

With love,
Visual Communications

The and our artist development programs would not be possible without the support of our generous donors, funders, and...
04/29/2026

The and our artist development programs would not be possible without the support of our generous donors, funders, and partners. From all of us here at Visual Communications, THANK YOU for supporting our histories and stories 💫💜

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