Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 11.9: Savoring the Memory of CAAMFest 2016
Being in this festival is an award in itself, for both filmmakers and audience.
Being in this festival is an award in itself, for both filmmakers and audience.
The actor/model talks about his new show, “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders,” and gives a shoutout to his golden retriever.
And just like that, CAAMFest 2016 comes to a close after 11 days celebrating Asian and Asian American stories in film, music and food.
The “Chinese Shirley Temple” danced alongside Gene Kelly, starred in “Flower Drum Song,” and became an award-winning playwright.
The Producer/Director of “Transparent” on Amazon and winner of two Golden Globe Awards chats about her journey from indie prodigy to becoming a TV director, and how she kept going through the lean years in between.
With a century of stories and achievements captured in over a decade of filmmaking, Pamela Tom’s award-winning TYRUS paints a beautifully intimate portrait of 105-year-old artist Tyrus Wong.
The filmmakers behind “One-minded” share their process — and a link to their short film.
“It seems like many people don’t talk about past wars but there is such an obsession with pop music—what is the relationship between the traumas of history and modernity, between war and pop (and agit-prop)?”
CAAMFest is a sure route to culture and knowledge, an opportunity to loose our shackles of unknowing.
Winners were announced at the Filmmakers Awards Brunch. Find out if your favorite film won here! Stay tuned for our announcement of the Audience Award after the festival.
Mina Shum’s Ninth Floor seems to suggest that there remains much at stake for today’s generation: the discourse changes, the struggle continues – and filmmaking remains to be an essential tool to explore how far, alas, we have yet to go.
Thanks for all your contributions to our great, mutual journey, with one common destiny. Perhaps we have all been flowers growing between concrete and stone. But we are also the forest.