Reuniting Lost Home Movies Through the Making of “The Chinese Exclusion Act” Documentary
Neither the filmmakers nor CAAM predicted that the inclusion of this home movie would lead to identifying the family in the footage.
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WORLD Channel, America ReFramed + CAAM Present: #MyAPALife Filmmaker Conversation
Join us on May 30 at 7p ET/4p P for a Facebook Live conversation with APA filmmakers Grace Lee, James Q. Chan and Keoni Lee!
“The Chinese Exclusion Act” Documentary Screenings in May & June
Screenings in New Mexico, Massachusetts and California.
Celebrate #MyAPALife Mother’s Day with CAAM Films
Celebrate this Mother’s Day with these CAAM documentaries.
How a Syrian American film producer found connection in Koreatown after the L.A. Riots
Mustafa Rony Zeno, consulting producer of K-TOWN ’92, reflects on trying to find connections between his mosque in Koreatown to Sa-I-Gu.
#MyAPALife with PBS and CAAM
We’re celebrating #APAHM through your stories. Take a Pic! Share a story! Use #MyAPALife and tag @PBS and @CAAM
“THE BIRTH OF SAKÉ” Wins James Beard Award
The film has received a 2017 James Beard Foundation Award for Best Documentary!
Seven New Asian American Documentaries Premiere on PBS and World Channel in May
“Lucky Chow Season 2,” “Mele Murals,” “Forever, Chinatown,” “Good Luck Soup,” “Relocation, Arkansas – Aftermath of Incarceration,” “Finding Samuel Lowe” and “Breathin’: The Eddy Zheng Story” will premiere on TV this May.
CAAM nominated for Shorty Award – Best in Social Media
#MyAPALife, #MiHistory, #MyBlackHistory and #NativeInspired are nominated for best in Multicultural Community Engagement.
Filmmaker Nanfu Wang on “Hooligan Sparrow”
“Hooligan Sparrow” has been nominated for a Peabody Award.
Preserving Public Media for the Public & Telling Diverse Stories
Public television and public radio are the only outlets that have supported and presented Asian American stories in media consistently over the years.
“The Chinese Exclusion Act” — A New Film About A 19th-Century Law With 21st-Century Lessons
“The greatest thing to have learned is that across time, the Chinese were standing up every step of the way.” -co-director Li-Shin Yu.