“Home is a Hotel” Doc Highlights SRO Living in SF Chinatown
The filmmakers behind PBS Online Film Festival’s “Home is a Hotel” highlights a low-income family living in one of the country’s most expensive cities.
The filmmakers behind PBS Online Film Festival’s “Home is a Hotel” highlights a low-income family living in one of the country’s most expensive cities.
CAAM’s entry Home is a Hotel, about a mother and daughter living in one of San Francisco Chinatown’s single room occupancy hotels, which won the Loni Ding Award in Social Issue Documentary at CAAMFest 2016.
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Being in this festival is an award in itself, for both filmmakers and audience.
And just like that, CAAMFest 2016 comes to a close after 11 days celebrating Asian and Asian American stories in film, music and food.
“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.
Wong’s story and ongoing legacy has impacted people all over the world, including CAAM Board Member David Lei, who rediscovered Wong’s piece after first seeing it as a child.
This oasis is overflowing. Cannes has nothing on CAAMmes.
Director Ben Wang reflects on screening the CAAMFest 2016 documentary inside prison.
“It gives a glimpse into the lives of two modern young women living in Tehran and their experiences in dealing with the conservative culture that the government and society subscribe to…”
“We want it to feel as much as possible like you’re having dinner with your friends and they’re saying thoughtful things. It was very, very important to us that the show didn’t become an after school special and we’re telling you how to think and patting ourselves on the back for being so progressive and interesting. It’s a comedy, it’s the thing that makes it go down a little easier.”