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…
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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…
Introducing CAAMFest 2021 With More Than 100 Films and Presentations
Tickets to all 11 days of CAAMFest 2021 programs go on sale to the general public beginning Tuesday, April 20 at CAAMFest.com. We will…
On Sale Now! Early Bird Tickets for CAAMFest 2021 Drive-In Events
CAAMFest 2021 will be taking place May 13-23, 2021 for 11 days of exciting Asian American storytelling, with programs you can enjoy at the drive-in…
Introducing the 2021 CAAM Fellows
CAAM is thrilled to announce the new cohort for our CAAM Fellowship Program in partnership with the Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc), focusing on…
We Believe in the Power of Storytelling to Combat Hate
At the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), we are deeply saddened by the ongoing and escalating acts of violence against Asian Americans. In…
How Ursula Liang Learned to Make Documentaries Without Going to Film School
The New York filmmaker learned by doing, to create documentaries that illuminate the experiences of East Coast Chinese communities.