“When they cast me as Eddie, they did it in part because in a lot of ways, we’re alike. I mean, it’s not just that we kind of look alike: We say what’s on our minds and we do what we feel like we gotta do, and we both really love food.”
San Francisco’s South of Market area is known for swank tech-company offices, gleaming luxury apartments, a baseball park with breathtaking views of the bay. Few know that it was also home to one of the country’s earliest Filipino communities.
PBS will rebroadcast “America By The Numbers” leading up to a new one-hour election special, “The New Deciders,” to be broadcast on September 6, 2016
Catch these films in May on Comcast on Demand: “Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice,” “Someone Else,” “Am I American,” “American Arab,” “Flip Flops” and “Off the Menu: Asian America.”
“The Center for Asian American Media stands with the Muslim, Sikh, Arab and South Asian American communities against the fear, suspicion, verbal aggression and assaults that they face on a daily basis in a place they call home.” – Stephen Gong, CAAM Executive Director
Filmmaker Jason DaSilva, who has multiple sclerosis, wins Emmy and dedicates it to “all people with disabilities who put themselves out on screen. You are changing the face of media today. Keep on.”
Two documentaries CAAM co-presented on PBS’ POV series are nominated for News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
Margaret Cho is staying busy with a new standup comedy show and co-hosting a new TLC show, “All About Sex.”
“For the Asian American community, seeing John Cho in a role on TV or in a movie has always been a triumph.”
Part II of the list, by Dino-Ray Ramos.
The San Francisco Bay Guardian, an online and weekly print paper, recently published a nice piece on the Center for Asian American Media’s Memories…
Congratulations to Soham Mehta whose film FATAKRA was selected by the Academy for competition in the 2011 Student Academy Awards.