“Hawaii Five-0” Actor Brian Yang on His Work Behind the Scenes Producing Asian American Stories
“I’m very much about promoting Asian stories, Asian faces, Asian storytellers.”
Filmmaker Profile
Ursula Liang: Director of Sports Doc 9-Man
“9-man is a very dynamic sport—you feel the palpable energy. These were not the type of Asian American men that you’re used to seeing in the media.” “9-Man” premieres on TV Tuesday, May 5, 2015 on World Channel.
Chloé Zhao’s “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” at Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight
In her directorial debut, she tells a story about a brother and sister on the Pine Ridge reservation.
Q&A with “Soul of a Banquet” Director Wayne Wang
The director’s latest film about the Mandarin Restaurant’s Cecilia Chiang comes to PBS this May.
The Man Behind the “Saturday Night Live” Documentary
The director of “Live from New York!” talks about filmmaking and his newest webseries, “Employed Identity,” coming soon to PBS.org.
Ruby Yang and Lambert Yam on “My Voice, My Life”
Oscar Award-winning director Ruby Yang is back with an emotional documentary, “My Voice, My Life,” playing during CAAMFest Saturday, March 21 at the New Parkway Theater.
Director Sara Dosa Embedded Herself Among Mushroom Hunters to Make “The Last Season”
Sara Dosa spent a season embedded in the tight-knit community of mushroom pickers in the Oregon woods to direct her first documentary, “The Last Season.”
“Off the Menu” with Director Grace Lee
Take a road trip into the kitchens, factories, temples and farms of Asian Pacific America that explores how our relationship to food reflects our evolving community.
Bright Lights, Big Screen: Joyce Wu on Her Debut Film
“When I was growing up I never saw anyone that looked like me, in the movies or in T.V. shows. It wasn’t the stereotypes that bothered me, but I couldn’t conceive of a world in which someone who looked like me could be a normal human being.”
5000 Shades of Gray: Shonali Bose on “Margarita, with a Straw”
CAAMFest Centerpiece “Margarita, with a Straw” “manages to explode the ‘disability’ genre of filmmaking into something entirely new.”
The ‘Sisters’ Behind “The Sisterhood of Night”
“I’m really proud that we’re making a movie about women, and not just about women, but the importance of female friendships and how we help each other.”
Women Making Films
This year, half of CAAMFest films in our Comcast Narrative and Documentary competitions are directed by women.