On April 24, the UCLA Film and Photography Society hosted Freddie Wong, a Youtuber from the popular YouTube channel RocketJump and a co-director for the series Video Game High School. Wong discussed his early days, how he got into filmmaking and various video projects. A USC film school graduate, Wong first got into filmmaking in…
In honor of May being Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Pacific Ties and Asian Pacific Coalition (APC) are teaming up to featuring Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Bruins. We’ll be posting one interview per day. Moneel Chand is a 5th year mechanical engineering major who has been in the Pacific Islands’ Student Association, the…
Valerie Soe, a former Pacific Ties editor-in-chief (1981) and currently an associate professor at San Francisco State University, is an award-winning filmmaker. Most of her works are shorts, focusing on one social theme such as dismissing the stereotype of all Asians looking the same in her short All Orientals look the same. Soe will be filming and conducting interviews in Taiwan for her full-length documentary Love Boat: Taiwan this summer.