VC FILMFEST 2006 - Presented by Honda
OCA is co-sponsoring one of the films at the Los Angeles Asian Film Festival. It’s my first time going to the film festival and to be quite honest, it was totally awesome. It’s nice to see asian americans in the big screen. It’s nice to see movies written, directed and played by asian americans. We *should* support other asian americans. Sooo the movie that I saw was Purity. It was very, very cool. Very well polished and very funny if you had an asian american hertiage.
VC FILMFEST 2006 - Presented by Honda
PURITY
(United States, 2005) Dir.: NaRhee Ahn
Nineteen year old Grace Kim is the standard of purity in her small town Korean church and the pride of her Reverend father. All of her life she has followed the rules, obeyed her family’s wishes and upheld the expectations of her community. Until now. When Grace’s mother dies in a tragic car accident, her world falls apart. She loses faith in God, her father and herself. Paralyzed by grief, Grace refuses to leave the house. She spends her days cooking and cleaning obsessively to distract her mind from her increasingly disturbing dreams that turn into nightmares. Her father, her best friend Naomi and her counselor Jonah, the Youth Minister try their best to cheer Grace up. But try as they might, they can’t bring back their friend from the depression she has fallen into. Grace needs the one person that has suffered the kind of pain she’s going through….
VC FILMFEST 2006 - The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
LOS ANGELES - APRIL 13, 2006
The 22nd edition of VC FILMFEST: The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival presented by Honda will feature a record number of feature films from Asian American filmmakers during its eight-day film fest beginning May 4 - May 11 in Los Angeles. Visual Communications (VC), the nation’s pioneering premiere Asian American media arts resource and education center will present over 140 films, shorts and videos with an unprecedented 16 feature films from 18 Asian American artists.
“This is truly an historic number of feature films from our own artists,” states VC executive director, Leslie Ito. “This year’s showcase of Asian American films underscores the fact that these filmmakers are not waiting for Hollywood to call and are doing it on their own. With Ang Lee being the first non-white director to win the Oscar for Best Director, we are hopeful that these emerging storytellers will also become future contenders. For VC, these artists and their stories illustrate the strength that our organization has in terms of developing, shaping and supporting their works.”
Established in 1983, VC FILMFEST is Southern California’s leading showcase for Asian Pacific American and Asian international cinema. This year, the eight-day movierama will also include a complement of filmmaker seminars and panel discussions, workshops, and filmmaker awards. The Festival will take place at the Directors Guild of America, Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Theaters, National Center for the Preservation of Democracy/JANM, and the Aratani/Japan America Theatre.
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VC FILMFEST 2006 is presented by Honda and supported by the following sponsors:
PREMIUM - Directors Guild of America;PLATINUM - L.A. Weekly, National Endowment for the Arts, Workplace Hollywood;GOLD - Multicultural Radio Broadcast, Inc., Project by Project, Sony
Pictures Entertainment, Wahoo’s Fish Taco, Heineken; SILVER: Department of Cultural Affairs -City of Los Angeles, Eastman
Kodak Company, FOX, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Mole-Richardson Co., MTV Films, MUSE, Tiger Cinema BRONZE - Diskovery Center, East West Players, Hitachi, Ltd., Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, National Center for the Preservation of Democracy/JANM, SAG Indie, Southwest Airlines, Union Bank of California, Warner Independent Pictures, and Writers Guild of America, West Inc.
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