Over 200 people filled the San Francisco Public Library’s Koret Auditorium for Saturday’s free Asian Pacific American Heritage Month screening of the Center for Asian American Media co-produced PBS
Learn more about this film and support CAAM’s educational and community outreach campaign around the Chinese Exclusion Act at CAAMedia.org/cea.
For upcoming screenings, please visit the documentary’s screening page.
See what folks are saying on social media:
Standing room only for screening of @CAAM #chineseexclusionact by filmmakers @RicBurnsFilms #Li-Shin Yi @CHSAmuseum with David Lei pic.twitter.com/9xzlfVDrxq
— Julia Flynn Siler (@juliefsnet) May 27, 2017
From last night's screening of excerpts from #ChineseExclusionAct with @gibsondunn @aaldef @CAAM pic.twitter.com/z5kd16qUia
— Steeplechase Films (@RicBurnsFilms) May 24, 2017
Thank you #CACA @1882foundation @APAPAHQ @LeadersForumUS @CAAM @PBS & @RepJudyChu ! pic.twitter.com/rerxbbVvMr
— National ACE (@NationalACE) May 16, 2017
How unidentified home movie footage made its way into a documentary, then finally reunited with its family. https://t.co/jdfDtFFC6F
— Angry Asian Man (@angryasianman) May 22, 2017
How much are students learning about the Chinese Exclusion Act? It's up to the teachers. #APAHeritageMonth via @caam https://t.co/d1h6go2Dij pic.twitter.com/TGrzU08lkc
— Chinese in America (@mocanyc) May 25, 2017