films
LGBTQ, homelessness, family, prison at 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
October 26, 2020In what is likely my final report from this year’s Festival, here are more capsule reviews of short films from Hawaii being screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, which is taking place through...
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More capsule reviews from 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
October 21, 2020With Kalewa, independent Hawaii filmmaker Mitchel Viernes is reminiscent of Jules Verne, as he takes the South Seas Cinema genre into outer space.
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Malcolm and Martin come to the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival
October 21, 2020Pastor Martin Luther King was ahead of his time challenging the system.
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‘A Perfect Crime,’ gripping Netflix documentary on the looting of East Germany
October 16, 2020Deltev Rohwedder was responsible for selling off the GDR's public industries. His 1991 assassination still leaves behind unanswered questions about the West's takeover of socialist East Germany.
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‘Waikiki’ shines at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
October 14, 2020America is currently experiencing a historic surge of protests igniting a cultural awakening and racial reckoning.
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