Hindsight Filmmaker Amman Abbasi Captures a Story of Immigration During the Pandemic in “Udaan”
Leaving home to attend college can be a stressful, daunting experience under the best of circumstances. But for Baneen Khan, it was a life-changing…
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Hindsight Filmmaker Kiyoko McCrae Keeps Her Focus Close to Home in “We Stay in the House”
What does it really look like when mothers are responsible for doing both professional work and the labor of raising kids and overseeing their…
Ready, Set, Pitch! Highlights From CAAM’s 2021 Virtual Pitchfest
Seven CAAM Fellows pitched their documentary projects to a panel of industry leaders. Learn more about the films and find out which film will receive funding.
Watch the Digital Premiere of The Hindsight Project Films
Three Asian Americans are among the emerging filmmakers from the American South and Puerto Rico whose works are part of the Hindsight project, now available for streaming on PBS
CAAM Co-produced ‘Asian Americans’ Wins 2020 Peabody Documentary Award
The CAAM co-produced PBS documentary series Asian Americans is one of the first winners announced by the 2020 Peabody Awards, one of most prestigious…
Chef Tu David Phu Tells Stories of Migration Through Food
“I think authenticity is often misused. For me, authenticity is a feeling and emotion that you can invoke in somebody that something’s genuine.”
Watch These Asian American Films on Public Television This May
For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May, you can watch a range of Asian American stories right on your local PBS TV station,…
CAAM IS SUPPORTING 11 NEW DOCUMENTARY FILMS IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2021
CAAM is thrilled to be funding Asian American filmmakers and programs that showcase the breadth and diversity of experiences in our community. This year, …
Apply by March 15 for the CAAM Documentary Fund
CAAM’s 2021 Documentary Fund is open for submissions, February 15-March 15
Firelight Media, Reel South, and CAAM Announce Filmmakers Selected for the Hindsight Project
“We as a nation are revisiting the complicated racial narratives of the United States, and it is important to recognize that Asian Americans are and have long been a part of the South,” says CAAM Executive Director Stephen Gong. “CAAM is pleased to partner on this project to bring these diverse documentaries to public media that represent a more authentic portrait of the regional South.”
CAAM-Funded “Try Harder!” Premieres at Sundance Film Festival 2021
Director Debbie Lum on the importance of making a film about this majority Asian American high school
CJ Hunt Explores Race in America, and His Own Life
“I’m able to enter and ride that privilege for access (to) certain spaces. You know, so when characters in the film, talk about Blacks, it is clear that they don’t believe that the person they’re talking to is Black.”