Official Selections: LA Asian Film Festival
Congratulations to our accepted filmmakers!
Films are listed in alphabetical order, index to the left.
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"We Rise Together"
The main subjects of "We Rise Together" are:
Phoeun You, a Cambodian man who came to the US as a refugee in 1978, and lived here almost his entire life. He was deported in 2022.
Phoeun You's family, who live in Las Vegas. They are survivors of the Cambodian War.
So Young Lee, an immigrant rights attorney with Asian Law Caucus.
Members of API RISE, an Asian American Pacific Islander Native Hawaiian organization that helps the formerly-incarcerated.
Members of Nikkei Progressives, a grassroots Japanese American community organization.
Documentary Short
Over 16,000 Southeast Asians who live in the US are at risk of deportation to countries they have never set foot in, or where they have suffered trauma. Some have been incarcerated and served their full time, but were then imprisoned by ICE upon their release. The goal of the video is to educate the community, to advocate pardons to those who may be deported, to change immigration policy, and to demonstrate the power of supporting each other and working together.
Director: Alan Kondo
Producer: Kimi Maru
Writer: Alan Kondo
Cast: James Bunyou, Eugene Fujimoto, Jun Hamamoto, Kanaka Malia Jennings, Deanna Matsumoto, Erich Nakano, Amy Oba, Jhae Pagsisihan, Dara Yin,
Cinematographers: Alan Kondo, Michael Kuge
Editor: Alan Kondo
wedding flowers
Short
New York University
A begrudgingly adept family outcast and her overbearing mother struggle to find connection as their family reunites for a wedding celebration. Set against the heightened intimacy of a Vietnamese-American Wedding, the film explores the quiet loneliness that can exist between a mother and a daughter, even while surrounded by family.
Director: Madeleine Tran
Producer: Madeleine Tran, Shreeya Jayabharathi
Writer: Madeleine Tran
Cast: Brittney Quach, Cat Ly, Jonathan Agustin, Stacy Song
Cinematographer: Amira Aboudallah
Editor: Madeleine Tran
Instagram: @weddingflowersfilm www.instagram.com/weddingflowersfilm/