Jason DaSilva Documents His Journey, Even Through His Hardest Times
“It’s going to be a real challenge, but you’re going to make it work. I’d like to tell my 25-year-old self that it’s going to be a bumpy ride, but you’re going to make it out.”
“It’s going to be a real challenge, but you’re going to make it work. I’d like to tell my 25-year-old self that it’s going to be a bumpy ride, but you’re going to make it out.”
“This was a time when there weren’t iPhones or anything that kept me entertained, so I would sketch all day on the back of these invoices. I would have piles and piles of papers and these pens. Come to think of it now, these were like storyboards. In a way, because my parents made me work at their small business, I had to daydream, and it fueled my imagination.”
“I grew up in the generation of vloggers and YouTubers and people navigating how to use editing software. That’s really how I got my start in hands-on filmmaking.”
“My work focuses on women, whether they are outsiders or those who are trying on the mantle of where they don’t usually fit”
“The food we ate growing up was so good. It’s more about sharing our culture and storytelling, versus, ‘I’ve got to survive.’”
“If we have the African diaspora teamed with the Asian diaspora, we would be unstoppable.”
“From the beginning I was very comfortable with bombing, because you have to try. You can’t succeed or fail unless you try.”
A good story moves us. And if it reaches enough people, these stories have the power to become a movement. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Center for Asian American Media.