Memoirs of a Superfan Volume 14.2: Susan Lieu and “140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother”
Susan Lieu’s one-woman show explores themes of loss, grief, and healing.
Susan Lieu’s one-woman show explores themes of loss, grief, and healing.
Nailed It screened to a full house at CAAMFest in May, and has been selected as part of the New Orleans Film Festival.
The poet and illustrator of the Caldecott Honor children’s book discuss growing up Vietnamese American and why they became artists.
Thi Bui was featured on a children’s book and graphic novels panel at CAAMFest 2017
She has worked on several key projects to position CAAM as a leader in the media world, including producing “Elevate, Incubate and Demonstrate: Advancing Asian American Artists in Media panel” at Sundance 2017.
“I confess to sharing that feeling of being slighted in seeing my own traditional dishes being ‘explained’ by an ‘outsider.'” – Andrew Lam
“Giap’s Last Day at the Ironing Board Factory,” winner of CAAMFest 2015’s Loni Ding Award for Social Issue Documentary, will play on PBS stations in May.
“…Vietnamese are not victims—they are survivors, they are fighters, they are strong women and men who are proud. They are the more interesting and compelling main characters in my lens.”
The director of “Live from New York!” talks about filmmaking and his newest webseries, “Employed Identity,” coming soon to PBS.org.
Find out how you can support one of the biggest projects to collect stories of Vietnamese American refugees.
A Vietnamese family attempts to resolve its divided past when three brothers, one capitalist, one communist, one anti-war, who fought against each other in the Vietnam War meet again after decades and confront their differences. Meanwhile, two first-generation Vietnamese American sisters try to reconcile a difficult past that altered the course of their lives.