“Forbidden City” Chinatown Nightclubs Exhibit Opens in SF
Update: Meet writer and filmmaker Arthur Dong as he discusses his new book, Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970. The related exhibition will…
CAAM Presents
CAAMFest 2014 Audience Award Winners
SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2014 – CAAMFest 2014 successfully concluded on March 23, 2014, after 11 days of film, music and food programming. As the largest…
Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 9.8
Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 9.8: The Ghost of CAAMFest Films are compelling. They pack a powerful punch: a jolt to the funny bone,…
Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 9.7
Take my Wife, Please Wednesday night I trekked down to Chinatown, to the Great Star Theater, to see BLACK MARKET COUPLE. It felt good to be…
Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 9.6
Five Questions for Cynthia Lin I’ve had a recurrence of Linsanity this year – but this time, I’m going nuts about musician Cynthia Lin. …
Q&A with Grace Lee
Editor’s Update (June 26, 2014): American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs premieres on national TV Monday, June 30 on PBS. Grace Lee…
Activist Grace Lee Boggs and Filmmaker Grace Lee
Director Grace Lee (The Grace Lee Project) and CAAMFest 2014 Spotlight Honoree has made her cinematic career celebrating the lives of strong women. She…
Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 9.4
Memoirs of a Superfan vol. 9.4: Journey from the Journey 2006, the year I started blogging for CAAM, was also the year that Ham…
Q&A with Konrad Ng, Director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program
CAAM is honored to debut the first public screening of Young Historians, Living Histories, a collaborative educational project between the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American…
CAAM Launches ‘Muslim Youth Voices Project’
Growing up in Central Indiana and Northern Virginia, filmmaker Musa Syeed spent his formative years in mostly homogenous towns, where being Muslim meant trying…
CAAM-Funded Documentaries at CAAMFest 2014
Here’s a roundup of the CAAM funded documentary films showing at CAAMFest 2014. Funding for these films was made possible through the CAAM Documentary…
CAAM Fellowship a Unique Opportunity
Step into the world of film and entertainment, and it’s not all glamour and glitz. The challenges for minorities is well-known, from the lack…