Quyên Nguyen-Le and Tani Ikeda will join CAAM as part of the National Minority Consortia fellowship, and will be mentored by filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura (“Mele Murals,” “Life on Four Strings: The Jake Shimabukuro Story”).
“Beyond Borders: Diverse Voices of the American South” will bring together Asian American filmmakers from the South to build a network.
Series about race and demographics with award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa premieres October 2 on WORLD Channel and October 4 on PBS.
During the election season the Center for Asian American Media, in collaboration with the National Minority Consortia and Diversity Beat, brought public broadcasting and public radio election-related stories from different communities within the growing minority electorate. Check out the CAAM Election 2008 page for post-election reflections and watch the stories produced by NMC fellows through Diversity Beat.
As part of the soon to be launched Abroad at Home series, Frontline World Rough Cut features S. Leo Chiang’s A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES.
National Minority Consortia fellow, Rhonda LeValdo, reports from Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas focusing on the presidential race and how federal funding for education impacts many students on campus.
Watch the latest stories produced by the National Minority Consortia (NMC) Election Initiative fellows. In anticipation of the 2008 Presidential Election, the National Minority Consortia (NMC) presents the Diversity Beat – a multi-platform initiative to incorporate diversity in public media as a central premise to covering a national news event, while also signaling public media’s commitment to diversity in public affairs reporting.
FRONTLINE/World and the National Minority Consortia (NMC) are collaborating on a joint call for proposals for an online series entitled “Abroad at Home”, part of FRONTLINE/World’s larger 2008 Election project called “The World is Watching”.
In anticipation of the 2008 Presidential Election, the National Minority Consortia (NMC) presents Election Intiative 2008: a multi-platform initiative to incorporate diversity in public media as a central premise to covering a national news event, while also signaling public media’s commitment to diversity in public affairs reporting.