CAAMFest 2020 Award Winners!
Congratulations to the 2020 CAAMFest Award Winners, including films from both our spring festival CAAMFest Online: Heritage at Home and and our fall event CAAMFest FORWARD.
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Announcing CAAMFest37 Filmmaker Awards
“Yellow Rose,” “Go Back to China,” “Our Time Machine,” “When We Walk” — see who else won at CAAMFest37!
CAAM Receives California Humanities Grant for “The Asian Americans”
The production grant will support The Asian Americans, a public media initiative that examines ways in which the US Asian experience illuminates the larger American story.
CAAM-supported films “The Apology” and “Minding the Gap” Nominated for Peabody Awards
The Awards will be announced on May 18, 2019.
“Free Solo” and “Bao” Win at the Oscars
Plus, stars of “Crazy Rich Asians” shine on the red carpet and on stage.
“Minding the Gap,” “Free Solo,” “Bao,” and more Asian Americans behind the lens nominated for 2019 Oscars
Catch “Minding the Gap” on POV on Monday, February 18 on PBS (check local listings), which CAAM is proud to co-present.
Sandra Oh, Darren Criss Win Best Acting Awards at Golden Globes
Big wins for Asian actors at the Golden Globes.
How to Watch the Golden Globes (i.e. the Sandra Oh show) Tonight!
Sandra Oh is the first Asian American to host the show, and “Crazy Rich Asians” is nominated in two major categories. Darren Criss is up for a Best Actor award.
CAAMFest Award-winning film “Minding the Gap” Shortlisted for Oscar
The film, directed by Bing Liu, received the Best Documentary Award at CAAMFest this year.
THE CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA SELECTED AS RECIPIENT OF HEWLETT 50 ARTS COMMISSION
”J-town, Chinatown: Our Town” will be a multidisciplinary and multimedia work performed by esteemed artist Brenda Wong Aoki and scored by award-winning jazz musician Mark Izu.
CAAM-funded Documentary “Abacus” Wins Emmy
Director Steve James (“Hoop Dreams,” “The Interrupters”) chronicles the Chinese immigrant Sung family’s fight to clear their names amid the financial crisis.
CAAM 2018 Documentary Fund Awards
The new awardees include “Mixed” “First Vote,” “Hamtramck, USA,” and a new untitled race and criminal justice documentary.