MAY 9 - 5:00 p.m. - National Center for the Preservation of Democracy
Ride along, as the youth take us on a journey of growing
up in communities that may not mean much to outsiders but
to them, it's a place called "home". Through the eyes of
this years' youth, we gain insightful views of the hidden
lives and fond memories of growing up in neighborhoods that
was once their and how gentrification and other social factors
leads to an uncertain future in their communities.
TRT: 105 minutes
PROTECT YOURSELF (Prutehi Hao)
(United States/Guam, 2005) Dir.: The Youth of Guam
Chamorro youths learn the basic facts
about staying safe in the age of AIDS in this multi-part
video about the importance of abstinence and safe sex.
Video, 14 minutes, color, narrative
ECHO PARK: A DIFFERENT VIEW
(United States, 2005) Dir.: Stephanie Cisneros
Inhabitants of Echo Park, an urban neighborhood
on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles, observe the phenomenon
of gentrification on their community.
Video, 14 minutes, color, documentary
ANTI-CULTURE
(United States, 2005) Dir.: Sumana Tumpa
Los Angeles-based Bengali youths sound
off about their experiences dealing with fitting into American
society, and of their determination to retain their Bangladeshi
culture even as they acknowledge they are fully acculturated
into American popular culture.
A young teenager stops just short of
ending her life when her conscience comes to life and persuades
her to see things in a different light.
Video, 5 minutes, color, narrative
SEE ME
(United States, 2006) Dir.: Steven Liang
A young high schooler has a hard time
revealing his newfound identity as a gay activist to his
parents. So what does he do? He makes a video...
Video, 8 minutes, color, documentary
BROKEN
(United States, 2005) Dir.: Cameron Lee
A young couple's bliss is forever shattered
when one is caught cheating on the other in this locally-produced
music video.
Video, 4 minutes, color, music video
JEALOUSY
(United States, 2005) Dir.: Kyle Tanaka
A young man tries to break up with his
girlfriend, but she has news of her own for him.
Video, 7 minutes, color, narrative
CHEATERS
(United States, 2006) Dir.: Erica Lee, Jia Liao
In an apparent homage to trashy reality
TV, a jilted teen lover gets the low-down on who her partner
has been shacking up with. We don't think she's going to
like what the detective finds out...
Video, 6 minutes, color, narrative
JUST BECAUSE I'M ASIAN
(United States, 2005) Dir.: Eugenia Su, Cherie Anne Le-Jovenal, Mya Zojo
It just goes to show that it doesn't
pay to cheat off the person sitting next to you in class...
Two women-one Vietnamese, the other
Indonesian, and both named Tina-recount their struggles
to come to America, and their present lives living with
their families in central Oregon.
Victor, a Los Angeles-area youth recently
"out" as a gay man, negotiates his conflicted dual identities
as boy-or girl.
Video, 14 minutes, color, documentary
DODGER BLUES
(United States, 2005) Dir.: Gabriel Perez
A true-blue Dodgers fan ruminated on
his conflicted feelings about the home team's stadium and
the largely Latino community of Chavez Ravine that was razed
to make way for it.
Video, 6 minutes, color, documentary
DOWNTOWN
(United States, 2006) Dir.: Max Martinez
A montage of images paint an intimate
portrait of downtown L.A. as seen by a youth wary of the
repressive LAPD presence in his community.
Video, 90 seconds, color, documentary
GOING THROUGH PROBATION
(United States, 2006) Dir.: Santiago Martinez
A young man ruminates on his troubles
as a parolee and how his status impacts just about every
aspect of his life.
Video, 1 minute, color, documentary
MY NEIGHBORHOOD: SOUTH CENTRAL L.A.
(United States, 2006) Dir.: Julio Diaz
An important community institution,
the South Central L.A. Community Garden, is a landmark that
provides a source of hand-grown produce for inner-city neighborhoods.
It is also in imminent danger of being shut down for commercial
development.
Video, 90 seconds, color, documentary
NASTY FOODS
(United States, 2006) Dir.: Danya Robles
Students at Los Angeles' Belmont High
School sound off about the decidely unhealthy selection
of cafeteria food for students and why the state budget
crisis contributes to the problem.
Video, 3 minutes, color, documentary
THUG TRUTHS
(United States, 2006) Dir.: Sovanna Ouk
Three Khmer youths from Long Beach,
California-all of them involved to varying degrees in gang
activity and two of them related by marriage-muse on the
reasons why they got involved with gang culture. A reflective
and thoughtful meditation on lost youth and harsh realities.
