What Muslim American Filmmakers are Talking About in 2024
We are in the midst of the independent film festival season, and audiences are watching important documentaries telling the unknown narratives of our time….
Independent Filmmaking
Filmmaker Frank Chi Directs $200K Bank of America Grant to CAAM
I’ve been so lucky to have the opportunity to tell the stories I’m passionate about on such a big scale. It means so much to me that BofA recognizes these challenges. That’s why I am directing the bank’s sizable Social Equality grant to the Center for Asian American Media – so that we pay it forward to the next generation of Asian American storytellers such that this work feels just a little bit less impossible.
5 Films to Watch as Alternatives to ‘Oppenheimer’
Oppenheimer is one of the most widely talked about films of the summer. Directed by Christopher Nolan and based on Kai Bird and Martin…
A Midwestern, LGBTQ Version of the American Dream in “Here, Hopefully”
“There are like immigrants everywhere, even in the rural, smallest town in Iowa. That version of the American Dream is still not represented well enough.” —Hao Zhou, director of “Here, Hopefully”
Hard Conversations with Immigrant Parents in “Liquor Store Dreams”
Meet So Yun Um, the director of the CAAMFest 2023 Centerpiece Documentary “Liquor Store Dreams”
“Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story” Turns the Lens on the Asian American Photographer Laureate
“Corky was really about people, history and culture. How many people do you know that photograph all things Asian American for no other reason than he feels like it needs to be documented?” — Jennifer Takaki (Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story)
Bending History, Time, and Perception With Filmmaker Rea Tajiri
Documentary filmmaking is sometimes thought of as a record of history. But can documentaries also be a way to experience the past (lived or…
CAAM Filmmaker Summit 2022: Here’s what happened
As part of CAAMFest40, we held a one-day CAAM Filmmaker Summit with the theme of “Centering Ourselves” to support the development of creatives who are…
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
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…
Free Chol Soo Lee Premieres at Sundance 2022
The CAAM-funded documentary Free Chol Soo Lee will make its world premiere virtually at the Sundance 2022 film festival. Free Chol Soo Lee tells…
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…