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VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS ANNOUNCES 2009-2010 ARMED WITH A CAMERA FELLOWSHIP
FOR EMERGING MEDIA ARTISTS

LOS ANGELES – Visual Communications' Armed with a Camera Fellowship is now accepting applications for all people of Asian Pacific American descent who are under 30 years of age. $500 will be awarded to recipients as well as access to Visual Communications' post-production facilities, a $700 a week value, and a one-year VC Filmmaker Membership valued at $100.

Fellows will use the $500 to complete a five-minute digital video within a seven-month period. Final projects must be shot in digital video format, and completed by March 30, 2010. A special program will showcase all completed projects at various VC exhibitions across the city of Los Angeles, including the 2010 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and other venues nation-wide. VC will co-own the productions and will also package and distribute completed works.

Women, South Asian, and Southeast Asian filmmakers are highly encouraged to apply to the AWC Fellowship.

For more details and how to apply, visit www.vconline.org. The 2009-2010 application deadline is July 17th 2009.

About Visual Communications
Founded in 1970, Visual Communications is the first Asian Pacific media
arts center in the nation. The mission of Visual Communications is to
promote intercultural understanding through the creation, presentation, preservation and support of media works by and about Asian Pacific Americans. Visual Communications was created with the understanding that media and the arts are important vehicles to organize and empower communities, build connections between generations, challenge perspectives, and create an environment for critical thinking, necessary to build a more just and humane society.

from LA Culture Net