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Fellow Kevin Truong Reflects on CAAM's Impact

How mentorship by an experienced Asian American director helped this emerging filmmaker tell stories to impact the community.

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STREAMING

'Interior Chinatown' Takes a Humorous Look at Asian American Representation

Author Charles Yu shares the backstory of translating his award-winning novel for the new Hulu series starring Jimmy O. Yang, Ronnie Chieng, and Chloe Bennet

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CAAMFest

Submit Your Films for 2025

Enter your films by Dec. 9 to be considered for next year's festival!

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FUNDING

Memories to Light Gets a Boost

Find out how a program from the Mellon Foundation Nonprofit Finance Fund will strengthen our work to preserve home movies

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Interior Chinatown Charles Yu
Bridging Our Stories Rafael Bitanga
CAAM Memories to Light
leila abu-saada
Jude Chehaib Filmmaker Summit 2024
CAAM Documentary Fund Open Call
Interior Chinatown Charles Yu
Bridging Our Stories Rafael Bitanga
CAAM Memories to Light
leila abu-saada
Jude Chehaib Filmmaker Summit 2024
CAAM Documentary Fund Open Call
Television

Charles Yu on Bringing ‘Interior Chinatown’ to the Screen

“What we’re really watching is Willis trying to assimilate. It’s the Chinese waiter, trying to become the leading man, the love interest, the hero.”
— Charles Yu

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CAAM Fellows

Rafael Bitanga Wins 2024 CAAM Ready, Set, Pitch!

Rafael Bitanga’s Bridging Our Stories won the 2024 Virtual Ready, Set Pitch! event on October 27. The annual opportunity to pitch works-in-progress is the…

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Memories To Light

CAAM Receives Mellon Foundation Support for Memories to Light Home Movie Archive

Our Memories to Light program is getting a boost. Learn how the Mellon Foundation NFF program will strengthen our efforts to archive Asian American community videos.

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Building Bridges Documentary Fund, CAAM Funded

Get to Know Building Bridges Documentary Fund Manager Leila Abu-saada

As part of CAAM’s initiative to support independent documentary films about Muslim experiences in the United States, in partnership with the Doris Duke Foundation,…

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Filmmaker Summit, Filmmakers, Independent Filmmaking

What Muslim American Filmmakers are Talking About in 2024

We are in the midst of the independent film festival season, and audiences are watching important documentaries telling the unknown narratives of our time….

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CAAM Presents

CAAM DOCUMENTARY FUND OPEN CALL: APPLY SEPTEMBER 20-OCTOBER 20, 2024

CAAM’s 2025 Documentary Fund is open for submissions. With support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CAAM provides production funding to independent producers creating…

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