Posts in category "Filmmaker Profile"
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CAAM Interviews Golden Slumbers Director Davy Chou!
“Golden Slumbers” is the story of Cambodia’s Golden Age of cinema, and the destruction of it by the Khmer Rouge. The director, Davy Chou is the grandson of Van Chann, a famous Khmer film producer of the 1960s and ’70s. Unfortunately, due to the Pol Pot regime, theaters were burned to the ground while performers [...]
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CAAM Interviews Valley Of Saints Filmmaker Musa Syeed
Valley of Saints revolves around two friends who are trying to escape the war and poverty in their conflict-ridden homeland of Kashmir. As an official selection at the 2012 Sundance Film festival, the film was recently honored as a winner of a Sundance Audience Award (World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic)! Shot during the 2010 mass [...]
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CAAM Fellow Johanna Lee Interviews TV Exec. Stephen Tao
By Johanna Lee 2012 CAAM Fellow CAAM Television Writer Fellow Johanna Lee interviews Mentor and Television Executive Stephen Tao the three essential questions about writing for TV today. JL: What do you do when you hit a creative block? ST: I try to figure out a way out of my routine. I might drive a [...]
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DIRECTIONS IN DIALOG: Leonard Retel Helmrich
CAAM recently stopped by the San Francisco International Film Festival to chat with Director Leonard Retel Helmrich about his film POSITION AMONG THE STARS.
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Interview with Director Jason Nou (HIP STAR)
Director Jason Nou, discusses how tight pants inspired the creation of his short film HIP STAR.
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Interview with Director Kathy Huang (TALES OF THE WARIA)
Kathy Huang, director of TALES OF THE WARIA, discusses how she got started documenting the transgender community in Indonesia.
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A Contract With God
Now here’s a project to get stabbed in the eye for. Just announced at Comic-Con, Will Eisner‘s acclaimed graphic novel about the New York City immigrant experience in the 1930s, “A Contract With God” will be adapted into a live action feature.
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CAAM Vlog #2 from the Flaherty 2010
Here is the next post in our series on the The 56th Annual Flaherty Film Seminar. This video covers day 3 and we were getting into the swing of things. Christine and I interviewed filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda, director of MENTAL and the CAAM distributed film, CAMPAIGN.
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CAAM Vlog from the Flaherty 2010
The 56th Annual Flaherty Film Seminar took place recently in upstate New York June 19-25, 2010. Christine Kwon and Michella Rivera-Gravage had an amazing experience there this year. Check out our video blog!
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WHATEVER IT TAKES: Fabulous Festival Fun – Part 1
After twelve months on the travel circuit, I think it’s safe to say that WHATEVER IT TAKES has finally finished its film festival run. But oh what a ride it was! Often thrilling, other times exhausting, but always an amazing feeling to show one’s film to new audiences across the country.
