Join CAAM at the Second Annual CINEMATOGRAFO FILM FESTIVAL 2018 November 8 – 11
The festival highlights Filipino and Filipino American films and filmmakers.
CAAM Presents
TRAKTIVIST Launches Traktivist Radio featuring Asian American Musicians
Traktivist is a new weekly music program on Dash Radio, featuring award-winning Asian American musicians such as G Yamazawa, Awkwafina, and Ruby Ibarra!
Tribute to Dawn Mabalon at the National APIA Historic Preservation Forum Nov. 12
The program will include a screening of the films BEATS, RHYMES, AND RESISTANCE, LITTLE MANILA: FILIPINOS IN CALIFORNIA’S HEARTLAND, and Bohulano family home videos from CAAM’s Memories to Light program.
Academy Award Winner Ruby Yang’s “Ritoma” Now Available Via CAAM
Oscar winner Ruby Yang’s documentary “Ritoma,” a story where tradition and modernity collide on the Tibetan Plateau, is now available for purchase or rental through CAAM’s Educational Distribution Department.
COMCAST CINEMA ASIAN AMERICA IN NOVEMBER
Check out these specially curated films on Comcast’s Cinema Asian America this November — free for on demand subscribers.
StoryCorps: Filipino American History in San Francisco’s SOMA
Bernadette Sy and Teresa Yanga talk about the founding of the Bayanihan Community Center, and Rico Riemedio and Tim Figueras chat about the changing SoMa neighborhood.
Your Family Story Can be Featured in New PBS Series “Family Pictures USA”
The host of the show, Thomas Allen Harris, will be filming in North Carolina in November
Chinese Exclusion Act Curriculum – Alameda County’s Teacher of the Year Jah-Yee Woo’s Testimonial
“The curriculum is important, for it gives students an opportunity to grapple with their own experiences and stories within the larger narratives of immigration of this country.”
“Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong” New Children’s Book
Your chance to win a children’s book package, including the new book by late historian Dawn Bohulano Mabalon and Gayle Romasanta, and illustrated by Andre Sibayan, about the Filipino American farmworker and leader.
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.”
Educate More Communities About “THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT” Documentary
Donate today to increase impact and understanding of this part of U.S. History.
CAAM at New Orleans Film Festival 2018
CAAM staff and our funded filmmakers featured at NOFF.