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
Filmmakers
In ‘Bad Axe’ a Cambodian-Mexican Restaurant Family Faces the Pandemic and Their American Dreams
“As a family, we had a lot of conversations about whether or not to have the film because of the potential backlash, privacy and safety issues. Yet, we decided it is the right thing to do.” -David Siev, director of ‘Bad Axe’
Vivek Bald and Alaudin Ullah on the Nearly 25 Year Journey to Bring ‘Bengali Harlem’ to the Silver Screen
“I wanted to find out whether Alaudin’s father was — like I say in the film — part of this larger history that hadn’t been recorded.” -Vivek Bald, Co-Director of ‘In Search of Bengali Harlem’
Centering Ourselves: 2022 CAAM Filmmaker Summit
Since its founding more than 40 years ago, CAAM has nurtured storytellers from a diversity of Asian American voices. While uplifting under-represented Asian American…
Cecilia R. Mejia Joins A-Doc as its New Impact Director
When filmmaker and A-Doc co-founder, Grace Lee served on a panel where she was asked to make recommendations for a documentary impact grant, none…
Firelight Media, PBS and CAAM Announce Filmmakers Selected for New Collection “HOMEGROWN: Future Visions”
A new collection of digital non-fiction short films by BIPOC filmmakers living in the American Midwest
Support AAPI Storytellers Today and Double Your Impact
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Watch The Sauce Fellows at the 2021 New Orleans Film Festival
CAAM hosted a gathering in 2018 where NOVAC’s Darcy McKinnon was joined by Clint Bowie from the New Orleans Film Society Firelight Media’s Chloe…
Viewers Like Us Podcast Addresses Inequity Among PBS Documentary Filmmakers
Filmmaker Grace Lee is launching a podcast to address the lack of diversity among PBS documentaries. Here’s how to listen
Seven Documentaries by Arthur Dong Now Streaming on the Criterion Channel
The retrospective breathes new life into some of the filmmaker’s earliest works
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….
CAAMFest40 Call For Entries – Submit Your Films for 2022 Now
Submit your film to the 40th annual CAAMFest, a vibrant celebration of Asian and Asian American stories. Read on for more details…