Peilin Chou on bringing cultural authenticity to DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio’s “Abominable”
To Chou, she defines authenticity as truth rendered through an intimate understanding of character and setting, both inside and out.
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CAAM Fellowship Behind the Scenes: Anuradha Rana
For an entire year I am a filmmaker with a mentor. Every time I ask a question or bring up a challenge I am facing, Mridu will give me a concrete example from her experiences that helps me to figure out what to do. I am constantly reminded that I am not alone.
CAAM Fellowship Behind-the-Scenes: Mentor Karin Chien
“In 2010, CAAM took a bold step. We started a 5-year professional mentoring program focused on Asian Americans working in every aspect of the fiction industries – film, TV, interactive, and immersive.”
Southern Documentary Fund (SDF) Annual Artists’ Convening 2019
The convening offered a place to learn and dialogue, essentially a rest stop where makers could take a moment to reconnect with their intentions and each other so that everyone may continue on this often unpredictable and difficult path that is documentary filmmaking.
CAAM Produced Wayne Wang Film “Coming Home Again” World Premieres in Toronto With Sold Out Audience
“The thing that struck me the most was his enthusiasm and his spirit and I felt like, wow, after all these years, being on all these sets and hundreds of hours making films, he still approached it with the joy of a 10 year-old.”- Justin Chon on Director Wayne Wang.
CAAM Membership Perk: Fall CAAM Member Happy Hour
CAAM Sustaining Members are invited to join CAAM at our Fall Member happy hour on Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at PianoFight. Join or renew today to receive an invitation.
Actor Will Yun Lee Has Been Making Strides in Hollywood for Two Decades
“The group of us that came up together from Daniel Dae Kim, Brian Tee, Ian Anthony Dale to Ron Yuan did our damndest to make these “stereotypical” characters come to life.” – Will Yun Lee
Memoirs of a Superfan Volume 14.10: The Healing Journeys of the Feminine
The world is, or can be, medicine, especially when embraced by a receptive inner world. This art is an antidote for what ails us in this time of division, uncertainty and distress.
CAAM Membership Perk: Fee Waiver to Enter Your Project to CAAMFest38!
Join CAAM at any paid level, starting at $50 a year, to receive a waiver to enter your project to CAAMFest38.
CAAMFest38 Call for Entries Now Open
CAAMFest38 takes place May 14-24, 2020.
From “Greetings from Bury Park” to “Blinded by the Light”: The Making of a British Pakistani’s Cinematic Personal Story
“I make these films so that people like us are visible. People who are generally on the margins of the frame or in the background or the side characters – I try to put them in the center of the frame, and then build the story around them to be as mainstream as possible and as universal as possible.” – Gurinder Chadha
“RANI” Places 2nd in the 2019 PBS Online Film Festival “Most Popular” Films
Rani is a social outcast, transgender woman who sets out to take care of an abandoned child. Set on the streets of Pakistan, she is determined to do the right thing amid waves of challenges.
