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PARTY HATS ON, PLEASE
Two rival children experience a life-changing event in San Gabriel Valley.
MEET FRIENDS, SWAP CHILDHOODS
A personal documentary that explores the demise of small business opportunities for Latin and Asian immigrant families at a swap meet in the San Fernando Valley.
HEROES AND VILLAINS
The day has come when Hera must say goodbye to her childhood friend Zak. HEROES AND VILLAINS is a bittersweet coming-of-age story about friendship, comic books, and superheroes.
CELEBRATION
CELEBRATION focuses on a family of women, three generations thick. Their intersections, sometimes collisions are imbedded within their actions. With her mother's encouragement, Fili digs deep into her roots. Follow Fili, as she takes an unexpected excursion through her grandma's mind & the physical space of modern day Philippines where she discovers something deeper than what she had originally anticipated.
NOT IN MY BACKYARD
The idea of war is explored through the imagination of an innocent little girl living in American Suburbia.
DIM SUM AND THE RACETRACK
In an attempt to understand and remember her late father, the filmmaker revisits his old bedroom to sort out the sweet memories of dim sum on Sundays, and the days with dad at the racetrack.
LEGEND
From his beginnings as a member of the legendary DJ crew The World Famous Beat Junkies to becoming proprietor of the business Stacks Records, Isaiah Dacio (aka DJ Icy Ice) navigates through the cultural history of Filipino youth in Los Angeles during the 1980s and ’90s.
WAKING HOUR
This experimental piece blurs the line between documentary and narrative. By using interviewed footage of people talking about their most vivid and memorable dreams, this piece creates an entirely new narrative and an even larger dream. Showing that sometimes the most interesting stories are the ones we experience right after we hit the snooze button.
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Since 2002, AWC has developed and supported over 160 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.

In an attempt to understand and remember her late father, the filmmaker revisits his old bedroom to sort out the sweet memories of dim sum on Sundays, and the days with dad at the racetrack.

  • Year
    2008
  • Runtime
    6 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    2008
  • Director
    Suilma Rodriguez
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