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Visual Communications

Visual Communications (also known as VC) –– is a community-based non-profit media arts organization based in Los Angeles. It was founded in 1970 by independent filmmakers Robert Nakamura, Alan Ohashi, Eddie Wong, and Duane Kubo, who were students of EthnoCommunications, an alternative film school at University of California, Los Angeles. The mission of VC is to "promote intercultural understanding through the creation, presentation, preservation and support of media works by and about Asian Pacific Americans." Visual Communications works to achieve this mission by creating learning kits, photographing community events, recording oral histories, and collecting historical images of Asian American life. Additionally, it has created films, video productions, community media productions, screening activities, and photographic exhibits and publications. VC also annually presents the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the leading showcase for Asian Pacific American and Asian international cinema in Southern California, and maintains an archive of Asian Pacific American still and moving image holdings.

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Visual Communications (also known as VC) –– is a community-based non-profit media arts organization based in Los Angeles. It was founded in 1970 by independent filmmakers Robert Nakamura, Alan Ohashi, Eddie Wong, and Duane Kubo, who were students of EthnoCommunications, an alternative film school at University of California, Los Angeles. The mission of VC is to "promote intercultural understanding through the creation, presentation, preservation and support of media works by and about Asian Pacific Americans." Visual Communications works to achieve this mission by creating learning kits, photographing community events, recording oral histories, and collecting historical images of Asian American life. Additionally, it has created films, video productions, community media productions, screening activities, and photographic exhibits and publications. VC also annually presents the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the leading showcase for Asian Pacific American and Asian international cinema in Southern California, and maintains an archive of Asian Pacific American still and moving image holdings.

Key claims

  1. date of establishment: 2002 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. date of foundation: 1970 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  3. date of foundation: 2003 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of establishment is "2002". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the date of foundation is "1970". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. The record states that the date of foundation is "2003". What evidence would count against this claim?
  5. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  6. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355297938

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.