Dante Basco Reflects on His Experience with ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ as Co-Host of Podcast
When actor and filmmaker Dante Basco was featured as part of CAAM’s Storytellers series in 2021, he teased a new podcast on the horizon. While…
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Dante Basco Looks Back and Forward at His Career in Storytelling
“We need to tell stories from our own perspective, and we need to have that conversation of art through each other’s perspectives.”
In Minari, Yuh-Jung Youn Shows Us America Through the Eyes of a Korean Elder
“Grandma smells like Korea!” seven-year-old David Yi (Alan Kim) complains in the film, Minari, released on February 12. Set in the hardscrabble Ozarks of…
It’s Beginning to Look a Little More Asian American in Holiday Romantic Comedies
Midori Francis, the star of Netflix’s “Dash and Lily” on bringing a mixed-race Asian American family to a holiday rom-com
Nothing Will Stop Justin Chon From Telling Asian American Stories
“What I care about is bringing empathy to us, so all my films have a very strong Asian element.”
Vote For Drama Del Rosario’s “In This Family” During the PBS Short Film Festival, July 13-24
Watch CAAM’s entry into the PBS Short Film Festival and learn about “In This Family” filmmaker Drama Del Rosario.
The Ongoing Legacy of Anna May Wong: Hollywood’s First Asian American Star
“More than ever she stands in for all of the women who were denied an opportunity to practice their craft in an industry that absolutely could not see the value that added what she was giving to storytelling and film.”
Bao Nguyen Shows the Potential of Story Through Films
“This was a time when there weren’t iPhones or anything that kept me entertained, so I would sketch all day on the back of these invoices. I would have piles and piles of papers and these pens. Come to think of it now, these were like storyboards. In a way, because my parents made me work at their small business, I had to daydream, and it fueled my imagination.”
Director Alice Wu and Actor Leah Lewis on the Whole Story of Making “The Half of It”
In the small town of Squahamish, Washington, introverted high schooler Ellie Chu is approached by the not-so-bright school jock, Paul Munsky, to write a…
Ali Wong Doesn’t Care If People Think She is Very Bad and No Good
“From the beginning I was very comfortable with bombing, because you have to try. You can’t succeed or fail unless you try.”
After Six Years, “Fresh Off the Boat” Has its Finale
“Fresh Off the Boat” will end its six-year run on ABC this Friday, ending an era for both the show’s cast and creators and…
Ang Lee’s Use of Digital Technologies in “Gemini Man” Reveals Human Condition
“Ang is completely and almost exclusively focused on the human experience. He uses technology to try to augment the ideas. He’s trying to figure out how the use of that technology has a corresponding vibration in the human soul.” – Will Smith