Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 12.4: Crazy Poor Asians
I’m sure we’ll all be lining up for Constance Wu and Crazy Rich Asians when they hit the big screen, but no CAAMFest would be complete without Crazy Poor Asians.
I’m sure we’ll all be lining up for Constance Wu and Crazy Rich Asians when they hit the big screen, but no CAAMFest would be complete without Crazy Poor Asians.
Some of the most astounding, creative and moving works are in the shorts program this year, one of the strongest overall years in memory.
“The $5,000 translated into bowls of rice on our table and chicken drumsticks in our hands, the clothing on our back. The second album never came out.”
Update: Love Boat: Taiwan will be featured at CAAMFest37 on May 17, 2019. Memoirs of a Superfan Vol. 11.12 – Taiwan Love Boat Doc…
“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.
Being in this festival is an award in itself, for both filmmakers and audience.
The filmmakers behind “One-minded” share their process — and a link to their short film.
CAAMFest is a sure route to culture and knowledge, an opportunity to loose our shackles of unknowing.
Thanks for all your contributions to our great, mutual journey, with one common destiny. Perhaps we have all been flowers growing between concrete and stone. But we are also the forest.
“I hope my stories activate us personally….My job is to invite individuals to their own liberation and maybe they will seek that for others.” — Director Mina Shum
Superfan Ravi Chandra checks in with director Julia Kwan, whose latest film looks at the changing landscape of Vancouver’s Chinatown.
“To know our kinship is to expand our vision and deepen our love, the trait most emphatically shared, most painfully abandoned, and most urgently needed, on this most tender, green branch of the tree of life.”