Touch
Written and directed by Minh Duc Nguyen, Touch is a romantic comedy following an unexpected friendship between a Vietnamese-American manicurist and a mechanic deepens in Los Angeles. “Minh Duc Nguyen explores the sense of touch and its emotional impact – how with just a simple touch, we can reveal our deepest longings and even heal [...]
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Lint & Buttons + Hapa Collective
Los Angeles-based Lint & Buttons by handcraft duo Lisa Buswell and Justin Deines have recently announced their collaboration with Hapa Collective. Available for a limited time, Seal Beach-based Hapa Collective will showcase Lint & Buttons originally inspired and completely handmade products. With Lint & Buttons bringing a unique mix of artistry to the crafting community [...]
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2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Celebrating its 28th year, the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF), presented by the nation’s premier Asian Pacific American media arts center, Visual Communications is the largest annual festival of its kind in Southern California promoting the best of Asian Pacific and Asian international cinema in the United States. Running May 10 – [...]
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May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
“May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. A rather broad term, Asian-Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru [...]
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Written by Ol Parker and directed by John Madden, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a British comedy-drama based on the 2004 novel, These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach. The film “follows a group of British retirees who decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the [...]
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Hapa Stories
Hapa Stories hosted by Gabrielle Nomura is an online film segment about growing up mixed-race in the Asian/Pacific Islander community. Commissioned by the city of Bellevue, WA, Hapa Stories follows the stories of seven “mixed heritage or multi-cultural individuals about how they relate or not to the term Hapa; and what it says about who [...]
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2012 Nikkei Matsuri
Celebrating its 35th year, the 2012 Nikkei Matsuri (Japanese American Festival) is a vibrant and dynamic celebration of Japanese American culture and celebration in the community. Running April 29, 2012 in San Jose’s Japantown, the festival Originated as a way for Japanese Americans in the community to share their culture with the city of San [...]
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Shout
Shout by Rhode Island-based industrial design students collaboration between Gavin Atkinson, Sue Kim and Gabriela Colon is a cardboard chair designed for children. Inspired by the Japanese art of origami, the chair is made from folding 34 cardboard pieces into isosceles triangles and glued together to form a conical-shaped chair. Link
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Saturdays NYC Opens in Tokyo
New York-based clothing retailer Saturdays NYC, named one of GQ’s best men’s stores in America recently opened its first branch store in Tokyo. Saturdays NYC was founded by three avid surfer friends who “saw a massive opportunity to bring the surf scene to the city,” says co-founder Josh Rosen. Located in central Tokyo’s upscale shopping [...]
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Written and directed by Te-Sheng Wei, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale follows an epic story of Taiwan during the Japanese occupation between 1895 and 1945. Following the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan, Taiwan was ceded to Japan and became a Japanese colony. Aboriginal mountain tribes, or Seediq were considered an obstacle [...]
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