Preview – CAAMFest Online: Heritage at Home, May 13-22
The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is pleased to announce a reimagined festival experience. From May 13-22, CAAMFest Online: Heritage at Home will be...
Bei Bei (USA, 2018) [CAAMFest 2019]
A pregnant young woman finds herself at an impossible crossroad. Abandoned by her boyfriend and left alone in a foreign country, growing ever more depressed...
Unlovable (USA, 2018) [CAAMFest 2018]
Joy (Charlene deGuzman) is an intimacy addict, struck with self esteem so low that no level of personal affection can satisfy her. After losing her...
Havana Divas (Hong Kong, 2018) [CAAMFest 2018]
For her third feature-length documentary, Hong Kong-based scholar/professor/filmmaker Shiyu Louisa Wei turns her attention to the experiences of Caridad Amaran and Georgina Wong Gutierrez. Though...
A Time to Swim (Canada/Malaysia, 2017) [CAAMFest 2018]
In Ashley Duong’s feature-length documentary A Time to Swim, lines of identity politics are crossed. Though the documentary film failed to depict the complexity and...
Go For Broke: An Origin Story (USA, 2017) [CAAMFest 2018]
The opening of Go for Broke: An Origin Story is not the subtlest opening to have graced cinema. An image of an American flag and...
The Registry (USA, 2018) [CAAMFest 2018]
John Dower, the foremost historian on Japanese-American relations, wrote in his seminal text on the postwar era, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World...
Jimami Tofu (Japan/Singapore, 2017) [CAAMFest 2018]
Jimami is the Okinawan dialect word for peanut and jimami tofu is a simple but much-loved speciality of the island. This is one of the...
Good Luck Soup (USA, 2016)
Among the crew of teenagers I hung out with to make the Cleveland exurb of Berea, Ohio tolerable in the 80’s were two friends who...