Marissa Aroy, director of “Delano Manongs, discuss her memories of her father’s food with her mother, Marcelina Aroy, in this CAAM and StoryCorps special collaboration recording.
Abacus is an intimate look at the Sung family’s resolve as their bank serving predominantly the Chinese immigrant community in New York City became the only bank prosecuted after the 2008 Great Recession.
Upcoming screenings of the documentary include on in SF Chinatown on June 13.
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“Looking back, I see an uprising, but that is not how it was portrayed on TV.”
Neither the filmmakers nor CAAM predicted that the inclusion of this home movie would lead to identifying the family in the footage.
Join us on May 30 at 7p ET/4p P for a Facebook Live conversation with APA filmmakers Grace Lee, James Q. Chan and Keoni Lee!
“Latinos were the majority of the initial victims of crowd violence, a third of those killed, and half of those arrested. One third to one half of the businesses looted in the city were Latino owned.”
Screenings in New Mexico, Massachusetts and California.
“Mele Murals” and “Forever, Chinatown” win awards at LAAPFF!
Mustafa Rony Zeno, consulting producer of K-TOWN ’92, reflects on trying to find connections between his mosque in Koreatown to Sa-I-Gu.