CAAMFest Award-winning film “Minding the Gap” Shortlisted for Oscar

A young Asian American man smiles holding a video camera over his right shoulder.
"Minding the Gap" director Bing Liu.
The film, directed by Bing Liu, received the Best Documentary Award at CAAMFest this year.

This just in: 2018 CAAMFest film Minding the Gap is on the shortlist for an Oscar nomination! The film, directed by Bing Liu, received the Best Documentary Award at CAAMFest this year.

CAAM is proud to be the co-presenter of Minding the Gap on POV, which will air on February 18, 2019 on PBS.

We chatted with Liu earlier this year:

In what ways do you think Minding the Gap has been successful in reaching people across cultures, race, and class?

There is a sense of non-judgmentalness. The film deals with a lot of issues that could be polarizing: race, class, and child abuse. The whole time I was just trying to get at how do people actually feel outside of the nature of judgment? How do they actually feel on the inside? In a way that they don’t have to color or cloak it. In some sort of way that they feel more palatable and make them feel more comfortable sitting in with their peers or communities and strangers. That was sort of my main goal. I think that is what makes it resonate so widely. Yeah, you can judge them. This is what we do when we watch films, read books, we judge characters. At the end of the day, this is them unvarnished and I think people like to see they themselves reflected. It gives them a way to channel things they don’t get to reveal others.

Read the full Q&A here.

See the list of films shortlisted for an Oscar here.