“Asian Americans” Groundbreaking Documentary Series to Premiere May 2020
The most ambitious television chronicle of the Asian American story in the United States will launch during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
CAAM Funded
CAAM Documentary Fund and Documentaries for Social Change Fund Now Open
Two funding opportunities for visual storytellers now open through CAAM.
Apply To CAAM’s Documentary Fund
CAAM’s Documentary Fund opens July 17, 2019. The deadline to apply is August 26, 2019.
Listen Now: Self Evident Podcast launches on all platforms
Listen and subscribe through your favorite podcast app, or at selfevidentshow.com.
CAAM 2019 Filmmaker Summit Gathered Asian American Documentary Filmmakers and Documentary Leaders
On Saturday, CAAM hosted our 2019 Filmmaker Summit at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center in San Francisco. As participants streamed into the screening…
Memoirs of a Superfan, Volume 14.6: “Chinatown Rising”
This film gives us an “institutional memory,” if you will, of our city’s life, struggles and aspirations.
CAAM is Supporting 14 New Documentary Films and A New Podcast in 2019
“We remain committed to telling undertold stories to the public, including stories by filmmakers from the South and historically underrepresented voices.” – CAAM Executive Director Stephen Gong
CAAM Documentary Fund Open Call Starts Jan. 10
With support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CAAM provides production funding to independent producers for national public television.
Double Exposure: Nadia Shihab on the Making of “Jaddoland”
“When I began to make films, I discovered that I saw a world of double exposure – where the presence of here was always imprinted upon the absence of there, where “home” and “back home” often coexisted within the same frame.”
Q&A With Adele Free Pham, “Nailed It” Documentary Director
Nailed It screened to a full house at CAAMFest in May, and has been selected as part of the New Orleans Film Festival.
CAAM at New Orleans Film Festival 2018
CAAM staff and our funded filmmakers featured at NOFF.
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.