So, Americans elected its first African-American president. Time to ring in a "post-racial" New World Order? Time for a new chapter in ethnic documentary? Who better to ask than the man behind one of America's biggest ethnic film festivals? "We've already been around the block a couple of times with that," says Abraham Ferrer, wryly. Ferrer is the co-director of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and is just one of many projects run by one of California's oldest and most ambitious media arts centers: Visual Communications (VC; www
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