'Wounds We Carry' Receives MacArthur Grant
Ten years ago, Michael Siv was one of the subjects in Spencer Nakasako’s documentary Refugee, which centers around Siv and his quest to reunite…
CAAM Presents
CAAMFest To Showcase Two Centerpiece Presentations
CAAM is honored to present filmmaker Grace Lee’s AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS. The film – a celebration of a lifetime…
Asian American Films Receive NEH Grants
The Center for Asian American Media is honored to announce that two of our fiscally-sponsored projects have been awarded production grants from the National…
CAAMFest 2014 Launch Party!
THE CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA presents the CAAMfest 2014 LAUNCH PARTY Celebrate the official kick off of CAAMfest 2014 with us! Be the…
Upaj:Improvise on PBS Stations
The Center for Asian American Media is co-presenting an episode of Afropop. Upaj:Improvise, directed by Hoku Uchiyama, showcases two dance forms in seemingly separate…
CAAM PSA: “The New Slant”
Have you seen the Center for Asian American Media’s public service announcement on national TV? We’ve made a lot of progress since yellowface caricatures…
CAAM Urges for Telecom Equity and Affordability to FCC Chairman
On January 9th, 200 people attended a town hall at Oakland’s Preservation Hall to voice the need for an open and affordable internet and…
Watch “Xmas Without China” on PBS online until Dec 26
It’s the holidays! A time for reunions, decorations, family and gifts. But could you survive December without anything in your home “Made in China”?
Q&A With ‘Life on Four Strings’ Filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura
We interview filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura, who recently won the Audience Award at the Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York for his documentary, Jake…
CAAM’s Memories to Light in the San Francisco Bay Guardian
The San Francisco Bay Guardian, an online and weekly print paper, recently published a nice piece on the Center for Asian American Media’s Memories…
CAAM Staff Volunteers During Asian Meal at GLIDE
Photo by Frank Jang. Inside the basement kitchen of GLIDE in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, volunteers—about a dozen who are professional chefs—prepare…
Seeking Asian American Home Movies
Image courtesy of Brian Gee on behalf of the Gee family (left) and Annabelle Udo O’Malley on behalf of the Udo family (right). The…