God Can’t Give You Double Eyelids
“I used to pray to God to give me double eyelids. I used to pray to God to be white.” Videography is an integral…
Filmmaker Profile
‘my mom (mẹ con)’ Gives a Loving Taste of Growing Up Asian American in the South
“I grew up understanding my Vietnamese identity a lot through food. I think a lot of people within diasporic communities could relate to understanding their specific community through food – through this flavor, this taste, this love and tender care that goes into the food.”
— filmmaker Melanie Ho, whose documentary ‘my mom (mẹ con)’ is now streaming via WORLD Channel.
‘The Fourth World’ Focuses on the Growing Hmong Community in One North Carolina Town
“It would be cool if people saw this film and then say Hickory is a mecca for Asian America.” — filmmaker Nash Consing
San Francisco Native Crystal Kwok Examines the Chinese Experience During the Jim Crow South in ‘Blurring the Color Line’
New documentary amplifies the “silent spaces” in America’s Black and white conversations about race
How CAAM Has Nurtured My Career
I am Kiyoko McCrae, one of the six filmmakers in the inaugural cohort of Hindsight, the joint talent development program led by the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), Firelight Media, and Reel South
How the CAAM Fellowship Changed Three Emerging Filmmakers in 2021
Every year, as a part of the CAAM Fellowship, Asian American documentary filmmakers develop their projects under the guidance of their mentors, and are…
Elevate the Next Generation of Storytellers Like So Yun Um
Elevate the next generation of storytellers like CAAM 2021 Fellow So Yun Um. If you have the means, please consider making a tax-deductible donation of any amount to CAAM at CAAMedia.org/Donate by December 31, 2021.
Emerging Filmmaker Set Hernandez Rongkilyo Strives for Poetry in the Political
Five years since embarking on their documentary-in-progress, Unseen, Set Hernandez Rongkilyo is finally starting to feel seen as a filmmaker, and as a person….
Geeta Gandbhir On Being The Slightly Shrill Person In The Room
“I spent a lot of time in my career, being what I like to call the slightly shrill person in the room, the person who is always pointing at people.”
Interview With Filmmaker Iman Zawahry on the Inspiration Behind “Americanish”
As one of the first hijabi female filmmakers in the nation, Iman Zawahry has made it her mission to share Muslim womens’ stories with…
Dante Basco Looks Back and Forward at His Career in Storytelling
“We need to tell stories from our own perspective, and we need to have that conversation of art through each other’s perspectives.”
Try Harder! Director Debbie Lum Focuses on Asian American Students at Lowell High School
CAAMFest 2021 officially kicks off on Friday, May 13 with two screenings of Debbie Lum’s powerful documentary Try Harder! as part of CAAM’s Opening…