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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
So, Americans elected its first African-American president. Time to ring in a "post-racial" New World Order? Time for a new chapter in ethnic