Center for Asian American Media

The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and elevating the profile of Asian American documentary filmmakers to help ensure the richness and diversity of their work is seen by wide audiences on public television, online, and in community and educational settings. It provides significant funding to documentary film projects by Asian American creatives and operates a fellowship and mentorship program for emerging makers. It also holds CAAMFest, the premiere documentary film festival in the United States exploring the complexity of Asian American experiences. The intended outcome of this grant is to improve equity, increase diverse participation, and marshal greater resources in the larger social issues documentary field.

The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the work of Asian American documentary filmmakers and to helping ensure their work is seen by wide audiences on public television, online, and in community and educational settings. This grant supports the activities of the Vincent Chin 40^th Remembrance and Rededication held June 16-19 in Detroit, Michigan, honoring the history and legacy of the activists, media makers, and diverse communities who sparked this movement for civil rights. These events are aimed at community healing, community building, and inspired envisioning of new narratives. 

The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the work of Asian American documentary filmmakers and to helping ensure their work is seen by wide audiences on public television, online, and in community and educational settings. Through its Social Issues Documentary Fund and Public Media Fund, CAAM provides development, production, and outreach grants to documentary films and multimedia projects that are made by Asian American makers, or that explore issues of importance to the Asian American community. CAAM’s mentorship program provides important non-monetary support and connections among diverse Asian American filmmakers at different stages of their career, and its adaptive public programming supports, celebrates, and explores Asian American experiences and culture. This award supports general operations.

The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) is the only national nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to supporting the work of Asian American film and media makers and to ensuring their work is seen by wide audiences on public television and in community and educational settings. CAAM provides development, production, and outreach grants for individual contemporary or historical nonfiction media projects produced by Asian American directors and producers. MacArthur support enables CAAM to increase grant support for projects and to work with A-DOC, a new Asian American filmmaker-initiated network, to provide mentoring and professional development opportunities for emerging Asian American filmmakers across the United States, ultimately resulting in more diverse narratives reaching and informing the American public.

The Center for Asian American Media will produce Wounds We Carry, a documentary film directed by Michael Siv, that follows the journey of a group of Cambodian Americans as they travel back to Cambodia to observe the trials, tell their stories before the Cambodian Tribunal, and seek some form of justice. The group includes four elderly genocide survivors, Cambodian-born advocate and scholar Dr. Leakhena Nou, and Siv, himself the child of Cambodian genocide survivors.