Filmmaker Lee Wang showed her film, SOMEONE ELSE’S WAR at the 2007 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. We got a chance to sit down and talk with her about her film, civilian contractors in Iraq, and documentary filmmaking. Check out our conversation in the featured video section to learn more about Lee and her powerful film.
We asked the producers of the thought-provoking film, A DREAM IN DOUBT, to answer a few questions about the journey of making their documentary. Take a look at what these filmmakers, Tami Yeager and Preetmohan Singh had to say.
When I first brought my project, Among B-Boys, to CAAM as a Media Fund applicant, I did so with a feeling of entitlement. I was on a quest and I would not be denied: I needed funding, I deserved funding, like so many others, “this project HAD TO BE MADE”.
Long the biggest challenge for Asian American cinema has been one of access – finding a way for the films that are being made (and we know they are being made, and are good!) to reach the eyeballs of people.
Hi everybody, my name is Christopher Wong, and I’ve been asked to write a weekly blog about my feature-length documentary film WHATEVER IT TAKES – a year-long story about a new public school in New York City’s South Bronx.
Welcome to the Festival page on the new CAAM website! We are very excited to present this brand new page with a different spin and whole new look.
The Asian Art Museum and CAAM are getting together at this month’s MATCHA. We are planning a multimedia extravaganza, with youTube vj-ing, a fashion show, films being made on the and much more! This is going to be really cool so don’t miss it.
If you are in LA next week don’t miss HOLLYWOOD CHINESE at the AFI Fest Wednesday, November 7 at 6:45PM.
Born in a Thai refugee camp on Cambodian New Year, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the United States never knowing that her family had survived the Khmer Rouge genocide.
An American survivor of the Cambodian genocide hopes to unlock the mystery of her father’s disappearance in 1975.
A Vietnamese family attempts to resolve its divided past when three brothers, one capitalist, one communist, one anti-war, who fought against each other in the Vietnam War meet again after decades and confront their differences. Meanwhile, two first-generation Vietnamese American sisters try to reconcile a difficult past that altered the course of their lives.
America’s first post-9/11 hate crime murder punctuated a growing wave of violence in retaliation for the terror attacks.