PROGRAM CURATORS:
ABRAHAM FERRER is the Exhibitions Director at Visual Communications, a Los Angeles-based Asian Pacific American media arts center. Since 1988, he has served as the co-director of VC FILMFEST: TheLos Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival; and has additionally curated numerous film and video screening programs as part of Visual Communications’ ongoing activities. He has also programmed screening series in collaboration with various community arts organizations and institutions and has also served as a program consultant for international film festivals including the Cinemanila International Film Festival, Cinemasia Asian Film Festival, Short Shorts Film Festival, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and Singapore International Film Festival.
JOEL QUIZON has been part of the programming committee for Pinoyvisions and VC FILMFEST: The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. A graduate of Film Studies at California State University-Northridge, Joel has worked in independent films in the US and Philippines. Most recently, he has worked in the recording and television industry. Joel also host a monthly afternoon of music called Diggin' Sunday at Tribal Café in Historic Filipinotown.
JASON GEAGA YAP is the current vice chair of the Kabataang maka-Bayan USA (www.propeopleyouth.com), a comprehensive National Democratic Youth Organization seeking to empower the youth and the community in the United States by educating, training, organizing, and mobilizing the youth and the grassroots to create systemic change. He is also currently the project coordinator of the Youth Media Arts Project (YMAP) of People's C.O.R.E. (Community Organization for Reform and Empowerment) which teaches high school youth the art of video documentary production, then guides the students through production of their own videos. He is a graduate of the Television, Film and Theater Arts Department of UCLA and has studied in the UCLA Center for Ethnocommunications. He has worked in multiple aspects of production in theater, film and video. Jason also is a Greater Echo Park and Elysian Neighborhood Council (GEPENC) District 5 council member. He plays guitar and sings vocals for the progressive hip hop/funk band "The Committee". He is a volunteer for the "Tuesday Night Café Project", a variety show running for 9 years in Japan town in the courtyard of East West Players. His family also owns and operates "Remy's on Temple", an art gallery in the heart of Historic Filipinotown.
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