APA Heritage Month Local Hero: Donald Young
CAAM’s very own Director of Programs, Donald Young has been named one of KQED’s Local Heroes for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
CAAM’s very own Director of Programs, Donald Young has been named one of KQED’s Local Heroes for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
The AHSC Cinema Showcase celebrates local Asian American media and media makers. From emerging talent to celebrated media pioneers, this exciting collection of short films and music videos reveal the vibrant Asian American media arts scene here in the Bay Area.
CAAM’s good friends at ITVS introduces Women and Girls Lead, a new multi-year public media initiative. Women and Girls Lead combines independent documentary film, television, new media, and global outreach partnerships to focus, educate, and connect audiences in support of women and girl’s leadership and development around the world.
CAAM’s Debbie Ng, Director of Development and Communications sits down with Nyjia Jones (CAAM Workforce Development Program Associate) to discuss her work at the Center for Asian American Media and in public media.
CAAM recently stopped by the San Francisco International Film Festival to chat with Director Leonard Retel Helmrich about his film POSITION AMONG THE STARS.
Feeling that Director Justin Lin will most certainly be in the media spotlight in the months to come, I wanted to share this gem with you all from our SFIAAFF archives. These videos are of Justin Lin doing an on-stage interview with Spencer Nakasako at the 2007 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Spencer and Justin discuss Asian American cinema with humorous stories, thoughtful insight and colorful language.
I was heartened that Yunte Huang’s book, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History, actually gave vivid life to the real-life detective, Chang Apana, a Hawaiian policeman, who inspired Earl Biggers to create the Charlie Chan book series. He presented a revisionist image to the Charlie Chan movies I had seen where a white actor played the sage, wise, unbeatable detective.
The Center for Asian American Media is proud to present these programs in May 2011 for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
Chi-hui Yang (Former SFIAAFF Festival Director) has programmed a great line-up for April’s Cinema Asian America. Take a look.
The Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley presents a free film screening of A Village Called Versailles.
CAAM is thrilled to co-present two programs at the upcoming 54th San Francisco International Film Festival, running April 21-May 5, 2011.
In this next episode of ON THE CLOCK, Kyle Chu, winner of the Mr. Hyphen 2010 pageant stops by the CAAM office to talk about what he’s been up to since winning the title. Everyone in the office is happy that Kyle wears the Mr. Hyphen crown. But there is one CAAM employee who is quite jealous of the attention and fame that the crown brings.