“The Sweet Requiem” Screening and Q&A Moderated by CAAM’s Stephen Gong
Dolkar, a 26-year-old Tibetan exile, lives in Delhi and barely remembers the endless grasslands of her homeland. Eighteen years ago, she escaped from Tibet…
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Ang Lee’s Use of Digital Technologies in “Gemini Man” Reveals Human Condition
“Ang is completely and almost exclusively focused on the human experience. He uses technology to try to augment the ideas. He’s trying to figure out how the use of that technology has a corresponding vibration in the human soul.” – Will Smith
From “Greetings from Bury Park” to “Blinded by the Light”: The Making of a British Pakistani’s Cinematic Personal Story
“I make these films so that people like us are visible. People who are generally on the margins of the frame or in the background or the side characters – I try to put them in the center of the frame, and then build the story around them to be as mainstream as possible and as universal as possible.” – Gurinder Chadha
Join CAAM at a Special Advance Screening of Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell” on June 25
Become a CAAM member today or enter our social media giveaway for a chance to receive tickets to the advance screening.
The Stars and Director of “Always Be My Maybe” on Creative Collaboration and Love for San Francisco
“It’s not so much a message I want people to live with, it’s a feeling,” Wong said. “A feeling of joy and a feeling of, ‘I want to watch this again.’” – Ali Wong
20 Things to Watch and Listen To In Celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islanders
It’s not too late to catch these films, now streaming on WORLD Channel and PBS! And catch the new podcast everyone is talking about,…
Memoirs of a Superfan Volume 14.9: Family as Metaphor, Family as Reality
“Family conflict seasons our reality, but it is also perhaps a hopeful metaphor for nations and indeed our whole Earth.”
CAAMFest37 Sneak Preview Recap
Support from members and the general public allows CAAM to produce and present compelling and innovative stories by and about Asian Americans for a diverse world.
CAAM’s Executive Director Stephen Gong to Speak at SFMOMA Jan. 10
Join us before the screening of “Plastic China” as part of SFMOMA 101: China, Film, and Society.
John Cho on #StarringJohnCho Campaign
“The two features I’ve starred in after #starringjohncho – Columbus, and now Searching – are both great stories directed by Asian Americans and supported by YOU – people who like that idea.”
Director Jon M. Chu on “Crazy Rich Asians”: “You feel the confidence coming off of the screen”
“Crazy Rich Asians,” based on the best-selling novel by Kevin Kwan, is the first major Hollywood studio project in 25 years to feature an ensemble cast of actors of predominantly East Asian descent set in the present day.
HBO Announces Call for Entries for 2019 APA Visionaries Short Film Competition
The competition is dedicated to showcasing emerging Asian Pacific American directors with unique perspectives of the APA experience.