Student Reflection on “Young Historians” at CAAMFest
I went to San Francisco for CAAMFest because I was chosen to represent a video project that other students and I made about Asian…
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“Forbidden City” Chinatown Nightclubs Exhibit Opens in SF
Update: Meet writer and filmmaker Arthur Dong as he discusses his new book, Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970. The related exhibition will…
CAAMFest 2014 Audience Award Winners
SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2014 – CAAMFest 2014 successfully concluded on March 23, 2014, after 11 days of film, music and food programming. As the largest…
Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 9.8
Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 9.8: The Ghost of CAAMFest Films are compelling. They pack a powerful punch: a jolt to the funny bone,…
Freida Mock on ‘Anita’
Freida Lee Mock is an Oscar Award-winning documentary filmmaker (Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision), whose most recent work is Anita: Speaking Truth to…
Memories to Light 2.0
We made it! CAAMFest just concluded and Memories to Light 2.0 had a successful screening as we debuted our first two short films of…
Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 9.7
Take my Wife, Please Wednesday night I trekked down to Chinatown, to the Great Star Theater, to see BLACK MARKET COUPLE. It felt good to be…
Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 9.6
Five Questions for Cynthia Lin I’ve had a recurrence of Linsanity this year – but this time, I’m going nuts about musician Cynthia Lin. …
Memoirs of a Superfan, Vol. 9.5: Creating CAAMmunity
“How can artists sustain themselves creatively, spiritually, emotionally and financially?” asked Karin Chien, founder of the CAAM Fellowship Program. She had gathered a panel…
Q&A with Grace Lee
Editor’s Update (June 26, 2014): American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs premieres on national TV Monday, June 30 on PBS. Grace Lee…
Activist Grace Lee Boggs and Filmmaker Grace Lee
Director Grace Lee (The Grace Lee Project) and CAAMFest 2014 Spotlight Honoree has made her cinematic career celebrating the lives of strong women. She…
Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 9.4
Memoirs of a Superfan vol. 9.4: Journey from the Journey 2006, the year I started blogging for CAAM, was also the year that Ham…