Looking Back at CAAMFest 2021, Our 39th Festival
Check out some highlights of this year’s festival! And make sure to scroll down to find out the winners of the CAAMFest Awards.
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CAAM Co-Produced White House Event Wraps AANHPI Heritage Month
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris address the Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander communities in a virtual greeting
Interview With Filmmaker Iman Zawahry on the Inspiration Behind “Americanish”
As one of the first hijabi female filmmakers in the nation, Iman Zawahry has made it her mission to share Muslim womens’ stories with…
Chef Tu David Phu Tells Stories of Migration Through Food
“I think authenticity is often misused. For me, authenticity is a feeling and emotion that you can invoke in somebody that something’s genuine.”
Tune in for Free Programs at CAAMFest 2021
CAAMFest 2021 offers a wide variety of programs, from drive-in presentations to conversations with filmmakers and more. A selection of our programming will be…
Stronger With Friends: CAAM Filmmaker Summit Collaboration Edition, May 19-21
Collaboration, for us, has been the biggest lesson of the pandemic. Last year, our first virtual CAAM Filmmaker Summit showed the power of the…
CAAMFest 2021 Features Films That Add Nuance to the COVID-19 Pandemic Discussion
As part of CAAMFest’s mission to bring together documentaries, narrative, and community conversations that give insight into the international, personal, and political perspectives of COVID-19,…
Dante Basco Looks Back and Forward at His Career in Storytelling
“We need to tell stories from our own perspective, and we need to have that conversation of art through each other’s perspectives.”
Watch These Asian American Films on Public Television This May
For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May, you can watch a range of Asian American stories right on your local PBS TV station,…
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…
Chloe Zhao and Yuh-Jung Youn Make Asian American History at the 2021 Oscars
The 2021 Academy Awards signaled it was going to be different from the get-go: instead of the traditional Dolby Theater, most of the ceremony…
CAAMFest And Chill With Our On-Demand Films
One of the silver linings of our hybrid CAAMFest is that we’re offering more than 30 films and conversations that you can watch from…