Please join us virtually for a FREE social screening on OVEE, May 22 at 7p.m. ET, of The Undocumented (dir. Marco Williams) co-presented by the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), Vision Maker Media, Black Public Media and Latino Public Broadcasting.

Watch here: https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/ej3gp

Film description
Border Patrol agents, Native Americans, smugglers, ranchers, retirees and Samaritans form a constellation of people engaged with the Arizona/Mexico border on a daily basis—policing it, working it or simply feeling its consequences. But at the center of it all is the migrant. This film tells the story of the migrants who die while trying to cross an unforgiving desert in search of a better life. Duration: 85min 4sec

On the panel, filmmaker Marco Williams as well as other panelists from immigrant rights groups will be joining us. OVEE is a new social screening platform for public media, so you can interact with other viewers as you watch the film or ask the panelists any questions you may have.

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Trailer for “The Undocumented”

Photo by Matt Nager: US/Mexican border fence, Southern Arizona.

Here’s her winning video “My Presidential Vision”.
Can you say first Asian American female president? We’re waiting…

Growing Up Asian in America, is a signature program of the Asian Pacific Fund, and provides a unique forum for youth to explore their ideas and to celebrate being both Asian and American. Every year, K-12 students from schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area share artwork, essays, poems and video (first time this year) which are displayed at museums, city halls and other public places.

Congratulations to all of the winners!

Kick off APA Heritage Month celebrations early by joining us for FREE online social screenings on OVEE TV!

Upcoming screenings!

Previous screenings
April 30: Asian American Festival Favorites (Shorts): https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/zy9df

Throughout May, CAAM will also be bringing you a series of films that will be broadcast on a PBS station near you*! We’re proud to present Among B-Boys (May 13) by Christopher Woon, Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words by Yunah Hong (watch online through 5/30/13), Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings (watch online through 8/8/13) by Tadashi Nakamura & Seeking Asian Female (watch online through 6/2/13) by Debbie Lum.
(*For correct times of programs, please check local listings)

“Bigger They Come” dir. by Patricio Ginelsa

Bay Area! On Saturday, May 18 from 2-4 p.m., CAAM will be presenting the 3rd Annual AHSC Cinema Showcase, a FREE event at the Asian Art Museum taking place during the Asian Heritage Street Celebration. We will be celebrating local Asian American media and media makers through a showing of music videos and short films, some of which include official selections of CAAMFest 2013.

May 1st, 3PM EST: Check out the AAPI Heritage Month Google Hangout, a partnership between the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Watch the recording here.

Speakers:

Konrad Ng, Dir. of the Smithsonian APA Center (CAAM Board Member)
Kiran Ahuja, Exec. Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Phil Yu, aka Angry Asian Man & former (angry) CAAM intern
Lisa Ling, journalist, writer, and host of “Our America with Lisa Ling” on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.

It’s going to be a film-filled APA Heritage Month so we hope you join us!

How else will you be celebrating APA Heritage Month? Let us know in the comments below.

This May, CAAM is thrilled to bring you a series of films that will be broadcast on a PBS station near you!

Looking for more great programs during APA Heritage Month?
Check out the KQED APA Heritage program.

CAAM is proud to present these films:

Among B-Boys
www.amongbboys.com

by Christopher Woon
Available May 2013 on public television (Check local listings)

Christopher Woon’s first documentary feature explores the intersection
of rugged urban b-boyin’ (breakdancing) and the traditional roots of
Hmong culture. But instead of the usual generational conflict, Among
B-Boys unveils a story of the modern and the traditional actually
affirming each other, visually weaving between the older generation’s
memory of ethnicity and war and the younger generation’s toprocks,
footwork, freezes and power-moves. Woon focuses on three breakers -
Impact and Vlln of Underground Flow, and Sukie of Velocity/Soul Rivals
Crew—who reveal the path towards b-boy cultural citizenship in
America, but continually steer us back to their families, history and
community. Produced as a short in 2004 and originally focused on the
California Central Valley, the feature film follows the expansion of
the Hmong community into the Midwest, with its main protagonists now
in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words

by Yunah Hong
Premieres May 2013 on PBS (Check local listings)

Anna May Wong knew she wanted to be a movie star from the time she was
a young girl, and by 17 she became one. A third generation
Chinese-American, she went on to make dozens of films in Hollywood and
Europe. She was one of the few actors to successfully transition from
silent to sound cinema, co-starring with Marlene Dietrich, Anthony
Quinn and Douglas Fairbanks along the way. She was glamorous, talented
and cosmopolitan, yet she spent most of her career typecast either as
a painted doll or a scheming dragon lady. For years, older generations
of Chinese-Americans frowned upon the types of roles she played; but
today a younger generation of Asian Americans sees her as a pioneering
artist, who succeeded in a hostile environment that hasn’t altogether
changed. Yunah Hong’s engrossing documentary is an entertaining and
imaginative survey of Wong’s career, exploring the impact Wong had on
images of Asian American women in Hollywood, both then and now.
Excerpts from Wong’s films, archival photographs and interviews
enhance this richly detailed picture of a woman and her extraordinary
life.

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Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings
www.lifeonfourstrings.com

by Tadashi Nakamura
A co-production of CAAM and Pacific Islanders in Communications with PBS Hawaii
Premieres Friday, May 10th at 10:00pm on PBS (Check local listings)

A production of CAAM and Pacific Islanders in Communications
Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings is a compelling portrait of an
inspiring and inventive musician whose virtuoso skills on the ukulele
have transformed all previous notions of the instrument’s potential.
Through intimate conversations with Shimabukuro, Life on Four Strings
reveals the cultural and personal influences that have shaped the man
and the musician. On the road from Los Angeles to New York to Japan,
the film captures the solitary life on tour: the exhilaration of
performance, the wonder of newfound fame, the loneliness of separation
from home and family.

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Seeking Asian Female
www.seekingasianfemale.com

by Debbie Lum
Premieres Monday, May 6th at 10:00pm on Independent Lens (Check local listings)

Seeking Asian Female is an eccentric modern love story about Steven
and Sandy—an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with
marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds online.
Debbie, a Chinese American filmmaker, documents and narrates with
skepticism and humor, from the early stages of Steven’s search,
through the moment Sandy steps foot in America for the first time, to
a year into their precarious union. Global migration, Sino-American
relations and the perennial battle of the sexes, weigh in on the fate
of their marriage in this intensely captivating personal documentary.

It all started in 2006, when a video of Jake playing George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” was uploaded on YouTube. Twenty million-plus views later, it stands out as one of YouTube’s first viral videos. Jake credits it with jumpstarting his career.

Jake has astounded audiences worldwide by revolutionizing the humble ukulele, performing with international stars such as Jimmy Buffet, Yo-Yo Ma, and in front of the Queen of England with Bette Midler! “I just feel so honored and so grateful that my mom introduced me to this instrument at such a young age, because it definitely opened a lot of doors for me, and helped to shape me,” Jake says.

In celebration of the national broadcast premiere of Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings, YOU will have the chance to meet Jake in person! Just show us how Jake’s music has impacted your life.

HOW TO ENTER:

• In 1 minute or less, show us how Jake’s music has positively impacted your life.
• One submission per person.
• Upload your video to YouTube (including “Life on Four Strings Contest” in the title)
• Send your video to jakecontest@caamedia.org by May 17, 2013 12PM Midnight HST

The public will be asked to vote and comment on their favorite(s).

May 21: We’ll announce the TOP 8 Finalists, who will be selected based on originality and public enthusiasm, determined by a committee of CAAM staff.

May 27: The winner will be selected by Jake himself in celebration of the National PBS Broadcast Premiere of “Jake Shimabukuro” Life on Four Strings on Friday, May 10th (check local listings).

CONTEST PRIZE:

The winner will receive a ticket to see and meet Jake in person at one of his upcoming shows. Includes one round-trip ticket, two nights hotel.

10 runner ups will receive a ticket to see Jake perform at an upcoming show.

Good luck everybody! For more information on the contest, visit CAAMedia.org or pbs.org/arts

#jakecontest

Invite your friends on Facebook!

Check out the YouTube Playlist of the video submissions

Celebrate APA Heritage Month early. Log on Tuesday, April 30th at 12:30pm Pacific Time for a special screening of shorts by Asian American media makers.  Spend your lunch/afternoon break watching these fun shorts and interacting with other viewers (and some of the filmmakers) online at OVEE, a new social screening platform for public media!

Watch here: https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/zy9df

Shorts Selection Films:

Lobster Shmobster (Dave Quion & Kyle Ross/USA/2 minutes/2004)

Black and white animation coupled with a dramatic story and soundtrack make this a fun start to our lunchtime screening. The story begins with a cheery cartoon lobster that then takes a dark turn. Captured in a grimy kitchen, what will happen to this lively lobster?

The Others (Aram Siu Wai Collier/USA/9 minutes/2009)
*Filmmaker in attendance!*

The Others features found footage of Hollywood actor Lou Diamond Phillips’ numerous ‘ethnic characters’ and places them in dialog with each other, literally, by employing classic Hollywood editing style and storytelling tropes. Through these conversations comes an investigation of identity, ethnicity and authenticity.

Love Bang! (Việt Lê/Cambodia-USA/6 minutes/2012)

“Saturated with eye-popping colors and insatiable desires, Le’s “sexperimental” music video examines historical trauma, collective memory and the effects of rapid modernization in Cambodia and Vietnam.”

Performers don the costumes of a soldier fighting to survive, a bull aggressively running around, and colorful space-age style costumes. Coupled with a catchy tune, this short film is sure to delight fans of music videos.

Lady Razorbacks (Laura Green/USA/4 minutes/2011)

When a group of Pacific Islander women decide to start a rugby team in East Palo Alto, California, all they have in mind is getting in shape. But this group of Fijian, Tongan, and Samoan women find the field an unexpected sanctuary and discover common ground learning the sport they grew up watching their brothers, uncles and cousins play. In a space where hitting hard and caring for each other are synonymous, they learn new ways to express themselves, support one another, and challenge the stigma attached to their communities.

The Postcard (Josh Kim/South Korea/15 minutes/2007)
*Filmmaker in attendance!*

In this Korean language short film, a young man catches the eyes of two women working in a post office when he sends a mysterious postcard with romantic overtones. The women start to suspect that the postcard was a love note intended for one of them. This is a captivating story about wistful romance and secret loves.

If you can’t join us for this program, check back in May for more online events. This is the second OVEE screening of a six-part series we are presenting of inspired and provocative works by Asian Americans through June 2013.

Upcoming OVEE schedule:

Shorts Selection
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/zy9df
April 30th
12:30pm – 1:15pm PDT

Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings
May TBA

Seeking Asian Female
May 29th, 8pm PDT

By Ravi Chandra, M.D.

The San Francisco Global Vietnamese Film Festival, co-presented by CAAM, will take place April 26-28, 2013.  The Opening Night Gala takes place from 7:30-10 pm on April 26th at Artists’ Television Access (992 Mission St.), and the festival itself features 20 films from at least 7 countries.  A highlight includes a Q and A with Duc Nguyen (BOLINAO 52), Tony Nguyen (ENFORCING THE SILENCE) and Viet Le (LOVE BANG).  Check it out!

I interviewed the organizers of the SFGFF by email: Julie Thi Underhill (Film Festival Director), Isabelle Thuy Pelaud (Film Festival Supervisor), and Estela Evette Uribe (DVAN Intern).

Any figures on the numbers of Vietnamese in the diaspora?

There are about 3 million people of Vietnamese descent living in the diaspora.

Which countries are Vietnamese concentrated in, and which American cities/areas?

According to the 2010 census, there are about 1.8 million Vietnamese in the U.S..

Vietnamese are spread out across the globe mostly in the U.S., Cambodia, France, Laos, Australia, Canada. In the U.S., cities including San Jose, Garden Grove, Westminster, Houston, San Diego, and other locations within Orange County have more than 10,000 Vietnamese Americans.

Are the war and refugee experiences still of predominant concern for the filmmakers and audiences?

Yes, but at the same time no because the films we are showing are not limited to that scope. A lot of the time when people address Vietnam they normally refer to the Vietnam war and life after the war so the SFGVFF is showing films that include themes such as queer love as shown in Viet Le’s LOVE BANG, sexual awakening in teens from the Best of Yxine Film Festival, battling addiction and HIV contraction as shown in With or Without Me. There are three significant films that shift the war and refugee focus. Hong-An Truong’s ADAPTATION FEVER series is an experimental video installation trilogy that investigates difference in relation to time, history, and memory through overdubbed narration in Vietnamese, French, and partial English subtitles. There’s Tony Nguyen’s ENFORCING THE SILENCE, which speculates about Lam Duong’s murder in 1981 after reprinting articles in a liberal newspaper from communist Vietnam.  He founded the Vietnamese Youth Development Center in San Francisco. And then there’s Duc Nguyen whose documentary, STATELESS, trails stranded Vietnamese refugees in the Philippines after the closing of refugee camps leaving them without legal status barely surviving on their own with no place to call home.

What are other stories coming out of the Global Vietnamese community, which you are highlighting?

As you can see from the wide variety of subjects in the films, Vietnamese and Vietnamese in the diaspora have developed new terminologies in the world that are not necessarily related to the war and therefore do not have to be determined by the war alone; they are addressing different issues to break out of that constricting perspective and, furthermore, expand it.

There’s Lin+Lam’s DEPARTURE that discusses modernization and interventions through transportation methods from the perspective of moving cars, cycles, and trains traveling through Taipei, Shanghai, and Hanoi, which were former colonial Asian Cities. The tale is told in five different native languages by five women who recount interconnected histories of urban environments that underwent transformation. The feature film for opening night called NORWEGIAN WOOD by Trần Anh Hùng, has nothing to do with the Vietnam war at all, but is an adaptation of a Japanese novel by Haruki Murakami that deals with the social upheaval in late 1960’s Tokyo. The Five Shorts from Various Yxine Filmmakers addresses sexual awakening, a young boy’s tragic decision, Vietnamese student’s interview for a residency permit, and also how families pass down jobs generation to generation.

Can you spotlight some programs which you’re really excited about?

We are excited to be showing Tran Anh Hung’s film NORWEGIAN WOOD.  He is one the best, respected, well-known filmmakers of Vietnamese descent known world wide. Some of the movies that might also be familiar are Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo, and Vertical Ray of the Sun. Haruki Murakami is also a globally known author, who actually refused anyone to adapt his book until he was approached by Hung. Another film is Enforcing the Silence by Tony Nguyen, which we talked about earlier about which speculates about Lam Duong’s murder in 1981. Tony Nguyen along with Viet Le and Duc Nguyen will be doing a Q&A on Saturday night, so the audience is in for quite a treat.

Ravi Chandra, M.D. is a psychiatrist and writer in San Francisco.  You can find more of his writing and performance at www.RaviChandraMD.com, where he invites you to sign up for an occasional newsletter.   His Pacific Heart blog is at Psychology Today, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-pacific-heart.  On Twitter he is @going2peace.

“Inheritance” will be available on CAAMedia.org until June

Inheritance (2012) is a personal documentary film that illuminates diasporic identity formation in the shadow of Iranian gender politics and the Islamic Revolution. Inside her mother’s home, the filmmaker excavates the detritus that cushioned her splintering family as they traversed the uneven terrains of Revolution, divorce and eventually, self-imposed exile.

Inheritance unfolds through a collage of images, forms, voices and eras. Faded footage of the polls where millions voted for an Islamic Republic, pipe in through a television in the U.S. thirty years later. Impressions of an absent father swirl amidst fragments of historical memory. The quotidian clangings of a family’s kitchen collide against the shrieks of a political system in turmoil.

Follow the filmmaker: @Aggie_Bazaz

Inheritance is the winner of the 2013 Loni Ding Award in Social Issue Documentary

CAAM is proud to announce the third annual Loni Ding Award winner and its prize of $1000 goes to Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz and her short film INHERITANCE (played at CAAMFest 2013), which investigates what’s lost, gained and carried over in the process of diaspora.

Loni Ding (1931-2010) was a veteran independent television producer and university instructor. She devoted her life to advocacy and public service, and played a key role in the founding of several public media organizations, including the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) and the Independent Television Service (ITVS). Her award-winning productions, which include Nisei Soldier (1984), The Color of Honor (1988), and Ancestors in the Americas (1997), were among the first to document early Asian immigrant histories. The Loni Ding Award was created in 2011 to honor the film and filmmaker that most reflects Loni’s passion and commitment.

Previous winners:

2012

Winner: MAKING NOISE IN SILENCE, Dir. Mina T. Sonn

2011

Winner: ONCE UPON A ROOFTOP, Dir. Sybil Wendler

CAAM is currently seeking applications from independent producers who are looking for post production funds for broadcast hour (56:46) documentary projects intended for public television.

Previous CAAM funded films have been broadcast on award winning series such as Independent Lens and POV and have screened widely at film festivals across the country (Sundance, Tribeca) as well as internationally at festivals like IDFA in Amsterdam.

For full eligibility requirements and the link to the application visit: http://caamedia.org/filmmaker-support/apply-to-the-2013-caam-documentary-completion-fund/

Deadline: May 9th, 2013 midnight PST

Back in the good old days, before smartphones, matchmaking websites, and boomboxes (yes I’m referring to John Cusack in Say Anything), harana, meaning “serenade” in Tagalog, was the way Filipino gentlemen would woo the ladies. However, because of changing times and the modernity bug, this classic romantic practice is slowly vanishing. To prevent this sentimental past time from completely disappearing, Bay Area based guitarist, Florante Aguilar, travels to the remote provinces of his native Philippines in search of the long lost haranistas in Benito Bautista’s Harana.

Once upon a time, not too long ago (last November), I came across the trailer for Harana. Though I’m a 90s kid who was born and raised in the urban city and county of San Francisco, I have a longing for nostalgic Filipino customs, especially harana.

So how does harana work? The ideal set-up would be a guy backed up by his buddies singing and playing guitar below the house of the girl he is romantically pursuing, trying to get her to look out the window as seen on Harana‘s poster.

And here’s a photo of the exact opposite of harana, taken in my mom’s hometown, circa 2008. As you can see, I’m a little further out the window than the girls on the poster. Ideally, I should have been the one being sung to, but my cousins standing on the street level did not play guitar. However, we were singing a song called, “Harana”.

Once I found out Bautista’s film was going to be screened at CAAMFest 2013, I just had to attend this year’s festival. Initially I was planning to be a festival volunteer, but then I came across a post for the Student Delegate Program and gave it a shot. After finding out I was selected to be a part of the program, I got so excited since now I thought I was guaranteed to see Harana.

At the Student Delegate Program orientation, festival staff presented a mandatory schedule for the first four days of CAAMFest, Thursday, March 14 – Sunday, March 17. While I was thrilled to see our itinerary would be packed with a variety of events, I was disappointed to find out that Harana was not included in the schedule. Harana’s CAAMFest screenings were on March 15 and March 17.  By the time we had the freedom to choose our own schedule, March 18, it was too late.

Nevertheless, it’s Thursday, March 14, and I have a great time on CAAMFest opening night. The next three days of our planned out schedule were so eventful that I don’t even know where to begin. To give you an idea of what the Student Delegate Program was like, it was basically an enjoyable elementary school field trip that lasted for four days. First off, though we were all college students, we still looked like a class of third graders carrying our backpacks filled with snacks. Leading the way were our chaperones, CAAM interns, Mitchell and Yeji. And of course, no field trip is incomplete without name tags, in this case, our festival badges. The major difference between us and elementary schoolers, aside from our heights, would be that we all had cellphones. So whenever one of us got separated from the field trip, our chaperones did not panic and call for security, instead they would just easily text us. And actually, when we were all exchanging each other’s numbers, I thought about how texting is one of the conveniences that threatens harana into fading away.

Today, it is not uncommon for two Filipino strangers to become “text-mates” and fall in love.
I usually don’t like to bring in mathematics, but this is how I feel: texting < harana.

Anyway, going back to the Student Delegate Program, we were all basically stuck in one group walking together around Japantown, theater to theater, venue to venue. And as for the locations outside of Japantown, our yellow school bus was Muni. Remember when you were a kid on a field trip having so much fun, that despite the fact that you were so exhausted from all that walking, you just didn’t want the field trip to end? Well that’s how I felt. I personally enjoyed our itinerary not only because it was so much fun, but because I was gaining so much knowledge. Come to think of it now, field trips weren’t just meant to be fun, they were meant to be educational. From early mornings to late evenings, meetings with filmmakers and numerous screenings, everything happened back to back with almost no breaks, but it was all worth it. At this point I’ve gotten over the fact that I wasn’t going to get to see Harana.

Out of all the events on our agenda, my highlight would have to be Ready, Set, Pitch! on March 17, the last day of our mandatory schedule. It was eye-opening to witness filmmakers promoting their productions in concise fifteen minute presentations amongst a jury. Similarly to a reality show with singing contestants showcasing their unique vocals, every filmmaker displayed originality and no two presentations were alike. As an aspiring filmmaker, this event was a huge deal for me. Despite the fact that I only got two hours of sleep the night before, the event was so fascinating that I forgot how tired I was that Sunday morning. At this point I’ve gotten so much out of the festival that I’m thinking things couldn’t get any better.

So it’s Monday, March 18, the first day we student delegates have the freedom to choose our own schedule. A fellow student delegate and I are walking up the staircase of New People Cinema when we bump into this one guy coming down the steps. My fellow student delegate had already met the guy before, but since I had not yet, I introduce myself. He smiles, shakes my hand, and introduces himself. Before I expose his identity, let me just say that we have an amazing conversation. I don’t want to go into too much detail, but one of the best things he tells us is, “With documentaries, it’s not always about the facts. It’s about the experience”. To make my long story short, as people were trying to make their way up the steps and back down, we were a fire hazard in the middle of New People Cinema’s staircase listening to the inspiring words of Benito Bautista, director of Harana.

By the end of March 17, I had already been content with my festival experience, but after bumping into Benito Bautista the next day, I thought that just topped it all off. If everything ended there, my CAAMFest would have been complete. Needless to say, this wasn’t how it ended.

I continued on with CAAMFest until closing night and though everything after the first four days was unplanned, each day just kept on getting better than the day prior. And although I was not intending to, I did not realize that I had visited almost all of the theaters and venues for this year’s festival. I missed out on a few places, but that was only because I do not turn twenty-one until June. And later on in the week, I had a lovely talk with Emma Francisco, assistant director of Harana.

Now let me fast forward to the last event I attended.

The Groove Salon with DJ Vinroc and Goh Nakamura. Thank you Marky Enriquez for curating such an event. As a music enthusiast, it was mind-blowing to see these two artists from opposite ends of the musical spectrum jam together live. When Goh performed “Suitcase” accompanied by Vinroc’s freestyle beat making, I just could not stop nodding my head.

To listen to it was one thing, but to experience it happening live, who could ask for more? Though the set up is pretty complicated with all the wires, and one has to be delicate with all the equipment, in my mind I was thinking this could be a modern day harana. Harana doesn’t have to disappear because of technology, it’s possible for the past time to evolve along with it.

It has been an honor to represent the City College of San Francisco in this year’s CAAMFest Student Delegate Program. Thank you Southwest Airlines for sponsoring this amazing opportunity. 

Wait. I have one more confession to make.

Although I met the director and assistant director of the film, I have not actually watched Harana once. I’ve watched it twice. And though both times were not at this year’s CAAMFest, had I not been a student delegate, I would not have even gotten the chance to watch it in the first place. I guess watchingHarana was meant to be for me after all.

Originally I applied for the Student Delegate Program just hoping to be able to see Harana, but I got so much more out of this program that I can go on forever. Sorry if my blog was a little long. To be honest, this was just the concise version of my CAAMFest experience.

Hold up. I did title this “My CAAMFest Fairy Tale” right?

And so I lived happily ever after.

The end.

Chosen from a large competitive pool of undergraduate and graduate students, the Student Delegates are a small yet diverse group of students who rigorously train at CAAMFest “boot camp.” Under guidance from festival staff, student delegates participate in an intense schedule of music events, cooking events, film screenings, discussions, and exclusive meetings with filmmakers and special guests. The program aims to cultivate the next generation of filmmakers, activists, educators, and community leaders. Check back for blogs from all of the 2013 student delegates!

Southwest Airlines is a proud sponsor of CAAM’s Student Delegate Program. Selected CAAM Internship Program applicants may qualify for complimentary air travel, courtesy of Southwest Airlines.