Growing Up Asian in America 2023: Art, Essay, and Video Contest
Bay Area kids in grades K-12 can enter this contest from March 1-15 for a chance to win
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This new AAPI-focused curriculum puts COVID-related Asian hate incidents into context
Resources to discuss COVID-related hate, how it’s related to the long history of oppression against Americans of Asian descent, and how leaders are strengthen the Asian American community today.
Enter the 2022 Growing Up Asian in America Contest
Bay Area kids in grades K-12 have a chance to win cash prizes by writing or creating art or videos around this year’s theme: A Home for You and Me
Try Harder! Director Debbie Lum Focuses on Asian American Students at Lowell High School
CAAMFest 2021 officially kicks off on Friday, May 13 with two screenings of Debbie Lum’s powerful documentary Try Harder! as part of CAAM’s Opening…
Get to Know the 2020 HBO APA Visionaries
Highlights from the fireside chat with three emerging Asian American filmmakers, hosted by CAAM and HBO
Meet the Six Young Filmmakers Selected For The Sauce Fellowship
CAAM is proud to support the Asian American filmmakers of tomorrow in the regional South. Meet six young creatives selected for The Sauce Fellowship…
Apply Now For The Sauce – Fellowship for Emerging Asian American Filmmakers in the South
Calling all emerging Asian American Filmmakers in the South! The Sauce Fellowship will support filmmakers to produce a documentary short focusing on Asian American experiences in the U.S. South. Apply by November 15, 2020
Muslim Youth Voices: Presenting authentic stories from Muslim American youth
“I hope to show people that Muslims are people too, and that we’re not that different from you” — Razan, 15
Muslim Youth Voices Call for Youth Participants!
Muslim Youth Voices free filmmaking workshops are back this summer in Dallas, TX and Portland, OR.
Doris Duke Foundation Funds CAAM’s Muslim Youth Voices Project
Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts’ Building Bridges Program grant will enable expanded public engagement, on TV and online with 20 short films created by American Muslim youth.
“Blasian Narratives” at CAAMFest and Oakland Museum of California
The project began as a collaboration between Morehouse and Spelman College students documenting and exploring the identity formations of individuals with mixed Afro-Asian heritage, colloquially known as “Blasians.”
StoryCorps: Rudy Corpuz Jr. of United Playaz Shares Memories of Growing up in SoMa
An activist shares memories of growing up in a neighborhood now designated the SoMa Pilipinas Filipino Cultural Heritage District, and about the violence-prevention youth nonprofit he founded.