Photos from Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival closing night bash

LAAPFF screens doc on singer M.I.A. before party in the plaza

The closing night party for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, held in the plaza outside the Aratani Theatre at the Japan American Cultural and Community Center. Thursday, May 10, 2018. Photo by Matt Carey

The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival officially comes to a close on Saturday, wrapping the 34th edition of the event that featured dozens of fiction and nonfiction films.

In the nonfiction categories, director PJ Raval's Call Her Ganda earned the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding North American Documentary Feature. Best director went to Bing Liu for his film Minding the Gap. A Special Jury Mention was awarded to Anote's Ark by director Matthieu Rytz and Best Cinematography honors went to Nathan Fitch for his work on Island Soldier. The jury awarded the Best Editing prize to Alejandro Valdes-Rochin and Tom Maroney for Science Fair. 

The closing night event, held Thursday night at the Aratani Theatre in Little Tokyo, featured the documentary Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., Stephen Loveridge's film on the controversial Sri Lankan-born pop star.  

​Below are photos from the arrival line and the party afterwards. 

Actors Yoshi Sudarso (left), Nikki Soohoo and Peter Sudarso. Photo by Matt Carey

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Actress Jodi Long sports an "Awesome Asian Bad Girls" t-shirt. Photo by Matt Carey

Actress Angela Zhou. Photo by Matt Carey

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"Science Fair" director Cristina Costantini. Photo by Matt Carey

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Actor Kelvin Han Yee. Photo by Matt Carey

Actress Cheryl Song. Photo by Matt Carey

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Actors Nikki Soohoo and Luke Guldan. Photo by Matt Carey

The boba-drinking duo of actor Osric Chau (left) and filmmaker Andrea Walter. Photo by Matt Carey

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Composer Joy Ngiaw. Photo by Matt Carey

Producer/presenter Elizabeth Lazan. Photo by Matt Carey

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Actor Desmond Chiam. Photo by Matt Carey

Actress Jossara Jinaro. Photo by Matt Carey

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Actor/director Gareth Yuen (left) and actress Arisa Yura. Photo by Matt Carey

Actress Kara Wang. Photo by Matt Carey

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Actress Shuang Hu. Photo by Matt Carey

Actor Peter Sudarso. Photo by Matt Carey

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Director Tanuj Chopra. Photo by Matt Carey

Actor Yoshi Sudarso. Photo by Matt Carey

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Actress VyVy Nguyen. Photo by Matt Carey

Director Sok Visal (left) and actress Sophin Zoe. Photo by Matt Carey

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Actress Ren Hanami, national chairman of SAG-AFTRA APAM. Photo by Matt Carey

Actress Mae Hi, chair of the SAG-AFTRA APAM Outreach Committee. Photo by Matt Carey

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Closing night party in the tent. Photo by Matt Carey

Party guests. Photo by Matt Carey

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Casting director Brent Anbe adds style to the after-party red carpet. Photo by Matt Carey

Party guest. Photo by Matt Carey

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Actress Angela Zhou (center) and party guests. Photo by Matt Carey

Phil Yu, founder of Angry Asian Man and a sponsor of LAAPFF. Photo by Matt Carey

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Having fun at the party: big man in a little coat. Photo by Matt Carey

Party guests check their phones. Photo by Matt Carey