VC ARCHIVES
FILM & VIDEO
COLLECTION
The VC Archives serves as an integral part of our production activities, ensuring the preservation and presentation of our films and videos. Our films include our VC Classics, which document Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences, as well as films created from our Armed With a Camera and Digital Histories programs.
Our videos document Asian American solidarity and social justice movements, pivotal historical events, and communities in California. Preserved films and videos were used for education and organizing work around setting up ethnic studies programs on local campuses, city redevelopment issues, the redress campaign for Japanese Americans interned during World War II, and the declaration of martial law in the Philippines. VC’s own past in media, narrative films, documentaries and educational projects are intertwined with the Asian Pacific American movements of the 1970s, and in itself represents a rich resource of the APA movements for students, researchers, and filmmakers.
VC ARCHIVES FILM & VIDEO COLLECTION
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VC Classics
Starting as an Asian Pacific American community-based filmmaker's collective in 1970, VC has presented honest and accurate depictions of Asian American and Pacific Islander peoples, communities and heritages.
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Armed With a Camera
Since 2002, AWC has developed and supported over 175 Asian American & Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander filmmakers. Cultivating a rising generation of artists committed to social and political changes and movements, these storytellers empower communities and challenge perspectives through their creative works.
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Digital Histories
Since its creation in 2003, Digital Histories has provided a professional and artistic work environment for underserved, ethnic-minority older adults in the Los Angeles-based APA community. Our program aims to connect and engage with the under- and misrepresented population of Asian Pacific Americans in mainstream media in a visible way.
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HITO HATA: RAISE THE BANNER (1980)
A landmark project directed by Robert A. Nakamura and Duane Kubo, HITO HATA: RAISE THE BANNER (1980) is the first feature-length film made by and about Asian Pacific Americans.
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Speak Out For Justice
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1981 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) Los Angeles hearings, Visual Communications and Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (NCRR) presents SPEAK OUT FOR JUSTICE, the entire gavel-to-gavel tape coverage of the Los Angeles hearings, held August 4 - 6, 1981.
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Stand Up For Justice: <br> The Ralph Lazo Story
STAND UP FOR JUSTICE is based on the true story of a Mexican American high school student who stood up for his Japanese American friends during WWII— by choosing to live in confinement with them at Manzanar concentration camp.
VC ARCHIVES
ACCESS REQUEST
If you're interested in using materials from the VC Archives for an exhibition, showcase, article, or educational resource, please complete this form or email us archives@vcmedia.org