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Angela Sun, Phil Yu and Sonia Narang will present their projects at a live screening at the AAJA national convention on August 12, sponsored by CAAM. Followed by feature-length documentary, Off the Menu: Asian America, directed by Grace Lee and co-produced by CAAM and KQED.
“Because of the organic, unscripted nature of home movies and their ability to capture everyday moments or important occasions in that Asian American family, the widespread distribution of these films allows these images and their personal stories to be normalized.”
“I applied to the NEH program because I feel that Asian Americans are often overlooked in the American school system, largely perpetuated by the ‘model minority’ myth.”
CAAM is proud to co-present Mei-Juin Chen’s The Double Life of Li XiangLan on Saturday August, 1st from 2-4 pm at Samsung Hall in the Asian Art Museum.
During the film’s introduction, the screen deflated and collapsed in slow motion when a stake came loose. Mas came to the rescue and fired up his tractor, tethering the screen to the tractor and re-inflating it. The rest of the show went on without a hitch.
“We are getting at the idea that every life is an effort to try to find some sort of happiness or sense of peace, and that we need to have empathy for other people’s attempts to find peace.”
For two weeks this July, sixteen K-12 educators from across the US convened in New York for an intensive seminar exploring how to teach Asian American film and literature in the classroom.
Pamela Jean Vadakan, coordinator of the California Audiovisual Preservation Project, explains why she supports CAAM’s Memories to Light campaign.
In Chapter Five of #StoriestoLight introduces Asian American students and their experiences with education!
Donate $10 or more to CAAM by August 14th to help us preserve, digitize, and share home movies as windows into the American experience through intimate footage of Asian American life from the 1920s-1980s.
Start off July with a fresh batch of tracks made by Asian Americans!