February 16, 2022 IDA Pioneer Award Honoree Jean Tsien: An Immigrant's Instinct for Finding the Story I always imagine Jean Tsien in constant motion, even though her work as an editor and producer usually means hours of sitting at a computer. Her Read more
January 10, 2022 A-Doc Exerts Its Collective Power Not too long ago, filmmaker/editor Jean Tsien kicked off a meeting of Asian American documentary filmmakers by lighting sage and paying tribute to Read more
January 7, 2022 Public Media at a Precipice: A Call for Commitment to Transformative Change This past year, a respected colleague who had attended many industry events with executives from public television noted to me how, "They choose not Read more
May 26, 2020 Documentaries to Watch for Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month During the month of May, we celebrate the culture and history of the United States' diverse and expansive Asian-American and Pacific Islander- Read more
May 8, 2020 A 150-Year Movement: 'Asian Americans' Tells America's Story Americans are planning their exit strategy from weeks of coronavirus hibernation, but there's still a compelling reason to stay home on the evenings Read more
November 18, 2019 Career Achievement Award: Freida Lee Mock Finds a Strong Clear Vision 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 Read more
May 16, 2017 Doc Stars of the Month: The Sung Family, 'Abacus: Small Enough to Jail' Editor's Note: Some of the greatest documentaries of all time would be inconceivable without their protagonists to drive the stories and keep us Read more
April 27, 2017 Grace Lee's 'K-TOWN '92' Tells a Different Story of the LA Riots 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 Read more
March 30, 2017 CAAMFest 17 Celebrates 35 Years of Resistance 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. Read more
October 19, 2016 Getting Real '16 Hosts Historic Convening of Asian American Documentary Filmmakers The day before they brought together a groundbreaking number of Asian American documentary filmmakers on the first day of the International Read more