CAAM Receives Mellon Foundation Support for Memories to Light Home Movie Archive
Our Memories to Light program is getting a boost. Learn how the Mellon Foundation NFF program will strengthen our efforts to archive Asian American community videos.
Our Memories to Light program is getting a boost. Learn how the Mellon Foundation NFF program will strengthen our efforts to archive Asian American community videos.
The program will include a screening of the films BEATS, RHYMES, AND RESISTANCE, LITTLE MANILA: FILIPINOS IN CALIFORNIA’S HEARTLAND, and Bohulano family home videos from CAAM’s Memories to Light program.
This month, we’ll be highlighting Filipino American community leaders.
Catch the world premiere of “Japanese American Home Movies to Light” on Sunday, September 30th, 3:30-4 pm at the Herbst Theatre during San Francisco Music Day 2018.
People share memories, artwork and words in honor of #DawnMabalonisIntheHeart
Mills is encouraging Korean Americans to bring their home movies to be shown at Home Movie Day.
Special call out to the Filipino American community who are willing to share their home movies and participate in Memories to Light: Asian American Home Movies!
Thanks to amazing home movie footage donated to CAAM’s Memories to Light initiative by local Bay Area painter/artist Hugo Kobayashi, you can see for yourself how mochi is made.
Home movie footage from Kip Fulbeck’s family collection shows an early trip to Santa’s Village in San Bernardino, CA.
Participants and audience members gathered in the theater, a converted church with pews and a functioning pipe organ to watch the films as they were originally intended to be shown—through a film projector and onto a white screen.
Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking, providing an opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community, and to see their neighbors’ in turn.
CAAM launches a special Memories to Light: Asian American Home Movies initiative focusing on California’s Central Valley.