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Jean Ho recently graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in Film and Digital Media. Surfing in warm water is something she wishes she had more opportunities to do. She has grown to love dog parks and is working on developing more critical sensibilities. Finally, she believes an intro to gender studies should be required as a general education requirement in all colleges and universities across the United States, and across the world for that matter.
In "Party Hats on, Please," a life-changing event between two kids is executed somewhere in the San Gabriel Valley landscape circa March 2008.
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Mark Villegas recently graduated from the UCLA M.A. program in Asian American Studies, with a concentration on documentary film production through the UCLA Center of EthnoCommunications. He is currently an educator in the Department of Sociology at California State University Long Beach and California State University Fullerton. He grew up in military towns all his life and participated in the rich hip-hop cultural spaces young Filipinos were creating. One day he will finally learn to headspin.
"Legend" highlights the DJ career of Isaiah Dacio (aka DJ Icy Ice), from his beginnings as a member of the legendary DJ crew The World Famous Beat Junkies through his recent notoriety as a proprietor of his DJ business Stacks Records. Navigating through cultural history of Filipino youth in Los Angels during the 1980s and 1990s, Ice tells the story of a rich Filipino youth expression that continues to this day.
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Kuang Lee is a writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in Southern California.
"Heroes and Villains" is a bittersweet coming-of-age story about friendship, comic books, and superheroes.
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Brian Wee brings a diverse background to his films. Mainly working in the commercial and music video arena, his works have been exhibited at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival and Adobe Design Achievement Awards. Whether it be still or motion pictures, he seeks to explore what kind of stories can be told both inside and out of the frame.
"Waking Hour" blurs the line between documentary and narrative. By using interviewed footage of people talking about their most vivid and memorable dreams, this piece creates an entirely new narrative and an even larger dream - showing that sometimes the most interesting stories are the ones we experience right after we hit the snooze button.
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Rochelle Lozada Artist. Filmmaker. DJ. UCSD Film Scholar. Twenty4. Loves her Pamilya & Friends. Believes in revolutionary change through sharing knowledge & hope, for those in the beautiful struggle. Lover & Fighter. Filipina-American...
"Celebration" focuses on a family of women, three generations thick. Their intersections, sometimes collisions are imbedded within their actions. With her mother's encouragement, Fili digs deep into her roots. Follow Fili, as she takes an unexpected excursion through her grandma's mind & the physical space of modern day Philippines where she discovers something deeper than what she had originally anticipated.
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Suilma Rodriguez is LA born and based. Her bi-racial background of Chinese and Salvadoran decent has been crucial to her development as an artist. While most of her past works has been in front of the camera, with a broad range of roles, including the role of the "Si Se Puede," chanting dancer in Disney Channel's "Gotta Kick it Up!," Suilma always knew that she would be telling stories from her own perspective. With a degree in Political Science, the Armed with a Camera Fellowship has been her first plunge into the world of filmmaking.
"Dim Sum and the Racetrack" is an attempt to understand and remember her late father. The director revisits his old bedroom where the bed sheets are still unturned, laundry unfolded, and thousands of racetrack tickets piled neatly along a shelf. Suilma and her sisters are left to sort out the sweet memories of Dim Sum on Sundays, and the days with dad at the racetrack.
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Tony Hoang (aka TonyToka) graduated in 2005 from UC Santa Barbara, with a bachelors degrees in Film Studies and Asian American Studies. He has been working in the Vietnamese American Entertainment Industry for the past two years. He is a video editor, cameraman, producer, writer, actor, poet and believes all that "isn't spreading yourself thin. It's becoming a well-rounded artist and having the perspective to have respect for all different types of artists."
"Meet Friends, Swap Childhoods" is a personal documentary that explores the demise of small business opportunities for Hispanic and Asian immigrant families at a Swapmeet in the San Fernando Valley. The director describes his own accounts of growing up as a Swap meet kid for 14 years, making new friends and saying good-bye to life long friends at a moment's notice, with the eventual downfall of his own family's business. He revisits the swap meet and encounters some familiar faces he has not seen for years.
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Lisa Nguyen is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley and currently works for a Los Angeles educational television channel. What feeds her passion for producing films is the exciting collaboration of creative and skilled people.
Lisa's directorial debut, "Not In My Backyard" explores the idea of War in American Suburbia through the imagination of an innocent little girl.
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