This past year, a respected colleague who had attended many industry events with executives from public television noted to me how, "They choose not
Asian American Media
During the month of May, we celebrate the culture and history of the United States' diverse and expansive Asian-American and Pacific Islander-American
Americans are planning their exit strategy from weeks of coronavirus hibernation, but there's still a compelling reason to stay home on the evenings
Freida Lee Mock has, over the past few decades, witnessed a sea change in the documentary space—from the artistry and craft, to the distribution
Editor's Note: Some of the greatest documentaries of all time would be inconceivable without their protagonists to drive the stories and keep us
Editor's Note: This article comes to us courtesy of the Center for Asian American Media ( CAAM). Filmmaker Grace Lee uses the medium of documentary to
CAAMFest 17, which ran March 9-19 in the San Francisco Bay Area, looked back at some of the most powerful documentaries created by Asian Americans. It
The day before they brought together a groundbreaking number of Asian American documentary filmmakers on the first day of the International
I once considered documentary to be a fallback for filmmakers of color who were shut out of the fiction universe. I was wrong. As it turns out, we may
In 1996, I abandoned my nascent political career in Washington, DC, and set out for New York City to pursue a life and career in documentary film. It