Linda Mabalot was a Filipino American filmmaker and community activist who founded the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, known as the Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival or VC FilmFest.
19 Facts About Linda Mabalot
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Linda Mabalot was the former executive director of Visual Communications, a nonprofit media production organization "dedicated to the honest and accurate portrayals of the Asian Pacific American peoples, communities, and heritage through the media arts" according to their mission.
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Linda Mabalot spent most of her youth helping her father, a first generation Filipino American, with work on land that he leased.
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Linda Mabalot attended Dixon High School and later graduated from the University of California, Davis in 1975 with a degree in biology.
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Linda Mabalot was inspired by the works of Filipino American writer Carlos Bulosan, and her hope to make a film about him encouraged her to pursue a career in filmmaking.
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Linda Mabalot joined their collective beginning in 1977 to produce and direct a documentary on the history of Filipinos and Filipino Americans in California.
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Linda Mabalot produced, directed, and contributed to many projects focusing on Asian American experiences, including Manong, Planting Roots: A Pictorial History of Filipinos in California, and Hiroshima 20 Years Later.
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Linda Mabalot contributed to publications like Imaging: A Century of Asian Women in Film.
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Between 1992 and 1995, Linda Mabalot was the Co-President for the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture.
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Linda Mabalot co-founded the Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture, the National Coalition for Multicultural Media Arts, and the Asian Pacific American Network.
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Linda Mabalot is the recipient of awards from the Asian Business League, the Steve Tatsukawa Memorial Fund, and a 1988 Vesta Award in Media Arts, Women's Building.
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Linda Mabalot was known for encouraging the support of young, up and coming Asian Pacific American filmmakers at the start of their careers.
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Linda Mabalot helped filmmakers including Taiwanese American director Justin Lin, who is known for directing Better Luck Tomorrow and a number of the Fast and Furious franchise films.
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Linda Mabalot allowed Lin to use the Visual Communications' offices for a film on the Asian American model minority myth, and she supported him in the earlier days of his media career.
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Linda Mabalot helped to empower me as an artist to explore the issues I wanted to explore, to stay true to the characters and issues without having to water them down or worry about what so-and-so in the community might think.
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Linda Mabalot mentored filmmakers including Gene Cajayon, Eric Byler, and Rod Pulido.
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In 1983, Visual Communications, under the leadership of Linda Mabalot, founded the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival which promotes Asian Pacific American and Asian international cinema.
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The Linda Mabalot Papers are held at the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies in the Welga Digital Archive.
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On May 19,2003, Linda Mabalot passed at 49 at West Hills Medical Center from cancer.