Help Us Find Families of Lost Home Movie Reels
While most of the footage in the Memories to Light archive is brought to us by friends of CAAM or families looking to archive their home movies, we’ll occasionally receive footage from other sources....
View Article“Kubo” Is Complicated, Flawed, And You Should Totally See It This Weekend
Kubo and the Two Strings is the newest offering from Laika Entertainment, a studio that specializes in stop-motion animation. Known for films such as Coraline (a personal favorite) and Paranorman,...
View ArticleEmiko and Chizu Omori on lessons from WWII Incarceration
In 1942, sisters Emiko and Chizu Omori were sent with their family from Southern California to the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona. Emiko was one and a half. Chizu was 12. Decades later, Chizu...
View ArticleQ&A with PBS Online Film Festival Director Cyrus Yoshi Tabar
It Is What It Is tells the story of Writer, Director and Editor Cyrus Yoshi Tabar’s perplexing journey to learn more about his heritage through unusual audio and visual effects. PBS spoke with Cyrus to...
View ArticleEffort to Save Tule Lake WWII Site from Fence
Planning has been underway to fence off a municipal airport near Tule Lake, a historic WWII American concentration camp in California (sometimes called an *”internment camp”). The plans would include...
View ArticleANN CURRY’S NEW PBS SHOW “WE’LL MEET AGAIN” PREMIERES JAN. 23 — EXCLUSIVE Q&A
Award-winning journalist Ann Curry has taken the American public through war and natural disaster zones, shared stories of human resilience, and shown us the power of storytelling. The former NBC News...
View ArticleHope in Hard Times: a Conversation with Brenda Wong Aoki
Banished families, anti-Asian hysteria, and two lives interwoven by activism and art. These themes make up the multifaceted performance of Bay Area storyteller Brenda Wong Aoki’s AUNT LILY’S FLOWER...
View ArticleMark Izu and Brenda Wong Aoki Present Japanese American Home Movies at SF...
The Mark Izu Ensemble with Brenda Wong Aoki present the world premiere of Japanese American Home Movies to Light on Sunday, September 30th, 3:30-4 pm at the Herbst Theatre during San Francisco Music...
View ArticleActress Nichole Bloom Discusses Her Journey to “Superstore” at CAAMFest37
Nichole Bloom may be best known for her role as Cheyenne on the hit NBC series, Superstore. While she’s been experiencing success from the show, it took many years to get to where she is now. In...
View ArticleWatch CAAMFest Films “Atomic Cafe” and “Phony” in the PBS Short Film Festival
CAAM will have two films in the 2021 PBS Short Film Festival, running from July 12-23. For the tenth annual festival, we are proud that the films Atomic Cafe: The Noisiest Corner in J-Town and Phony...
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