Your Family Story Can be Featured in New PBS Series “Family Pictures USA”
The host of the show, Thomas Allen Harris, will be filming in North Carolina in November
The host of the show, Thomas Allen Harris, will be filming in North Carolina in November
Director Steve James (“Hoop Dreams,” “The Interrupters”) chronicles the Chinese immigrant Sung family’s fight to clear their names amid the financial crisis.
Meet us at OMCA for an evening of food trucks, Asian Americans in hip-hop panel, and the World Premiere of “Family Pictures USA: Detroit Is The Future and It’s Okay!”
The film is about the family-owned Abacus Federal Savings Bank, the only U.S. bank to face criminal charges after the 2008 financial crisis.
Host a community screening of the film, “The Chinese Exclusion Act,” and use our new community resource kit with a discussion guide and more.
Applications will close on Thursday, March 1, 2018.
As we look back on 2017, we are incredibly proud of what we have accomplished in deep collaboration with our partner filmmakers, organizations and supporters.
“You can’t fully participate in this society unless you see yourselves and your stories told in this society.” – Stephen Gong
“My goal has been to be a support, as well as be an example, of a series that can be born and generated here in Hawai’i. Nobody has to go to anywhere else. You don’t have to Hollywood anymore because there is no ‘Hollywood.'”
The awards ceremony takes place October 5, 2017
A moving documentary about the quest for inclusion for autistic teens.
A new doc looks at why was a small bank serving Chinese immigrants was the only US bank indicted for mortgage fraud related to 2008 crisis.