Between this year’s stand out documentary Cane Fire and I Was a Simple Man, Hawaiian filmmaking is making a long overdue statement on their narrative mastery. Christopher Makoto Yogi, director of I Was a Simple ...
What do you get when you take one of the most beloved Filipino finger foods and turn it into a weapon of destruction? In the world of Lumpia With a Vengeance, lumpia isn’t just a ...
Taiwanese American film director Roxy Shih is used to delivering us scares — her directing credits include 2018’s feature film Painkillers to this year’s Facebook watch horror series Mira Mira. However, with her newest feature ...
Definition Please follows Monica (Sujata Day), a one-time spelling bee champion who can’t seem to catch a break. Stuck at home juggling her work as a tutor for other aspiring spelling bee hopefuls and taking ...
Three young men with disabilities hit the road with a jaded nurse driver to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs. Remake of the acclaimed Belgian film ‘Hasta La Vista’. IMDb What ...
We talked to director Leon Le during LAAPFF about his film, 'Song Lang'.
normal. is the most realistic film that I’ve seen during my time at LAAPFF. There’s almost a cinéma vérité-type of reality to the film—where even the most smallest conversations have painfully real awkward flourishes in ...
There’s no doubt that Doris Yeung‘s The Ugly Model is a documentary that tackles a difficult subject matter, but it seems to have lost its way somewhere between its conception and its execution. Doubling as ...
In this genre-spanning film, director Minh Duc Nguyen brings the magic of moviemaking to his backyard of Garden Grove, CA. Actress Wanted follows struggling actress Mai (Thien Nguyen) as she takes on an acting job ...
We talked to director Justin Chon during LAAPFF about his film, 'Ms. Purple'