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The Center for Asian American Media produces and presents compelling, innovative national stories about the Asian American community.

08/14/2026

Kirthi Nath’s will be featured as part of Cinema as Prayer: A Night of Q***r South Asian Films. Together with Longing Suite by Lata Mani and Nicolás Grandi, these two poetic films touch on the topics of long, belonging, and spiritual transformation. A Q&A with the filmmakers will be moderated by Madeleine Lim, Executive and Artistic Director of QWOCMAP.

Cinema as Prayer will be held on Wednesday, August 19 at 6:15pm at Rialto Cinemas Elwood in Berkeley.

08/11/2026

J-SEI will host a free screening of Nisha Balaram's MEALS THAT MADE US on Sunday, August 16 at 11am, 2pm, and 4pm (with tickets still available for 4pm showing) as part of their Sunday Funday event. This CAAM-produced documentary series features Asian American chefs, farmers, and community leaders throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, who use food as a way to connect to heritage, each other, and the future. Balaram and one of the subjects of the series, Chef Yuji Ishikata, will be in attendance for a Q&A afterwards. Please be sure to RSVP ahead of time.

https://bit.ly/4xt1Ooi

08/05/2026

The South Asian Journalists Association is now accepting submissions for our 2026 journalism awards! Categories include:
-General Excellence
-International
-Arts, Culture & Lifestyle
-Business
-Investigative (in honor of Daniel Pearl)
-Student
-New category: Documentary-short

The 2026 SAJA Awards recognize outstanding work by South Asian journalists as well as coverage of issues related to South Asia worldwide. Submissions will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. ET Tuesday, Sept. 1. To enter, check out our website.
Good luck!
https://saja.awardsplatform.com/page/pZpDGAKZ
(photo of SAJA Awards Chair: Pia Sarkar, 2025 Award Recipient Shaan Merchant and board member Indira Somani)

08/04/2026

“You just look for different ways to make money, and films are just part of that.”

Is it a film… or something else? Director Curtis Chin works in many genres of storytelling: films, books, television. Find out what he focuses on, instead of just thinking about his next film.

This is part of our CAAMFest 2026 Filmmaker Summit panel discussion Successfully Short, in Partnership With A-Doc.

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See more at the CAAM Channel 🔗 in bio or IG Stories

07/31/2026

See a free screening of THE AUNTIE SEWING SQUAD RESISTANCE PLAYBOOK, directed by Valerie Soe. This CAAM-funded documentary was a hit at CAAMFest. Now it’s back in San Francisco at the Koret Auditorium on Saturday, August 15 at 1:00 PM.

When a mask shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic leads performance artist, Kristina Wong, into creating a grassroots collective of BIPOC women to volunteer to fill that gap, it grew into a movement to protect those at risk, all while navigating systemic inequalities.

Please stick around afterwards for a Q&A and book signing for Wong’s AUNTIE KRISTINA’S GUIDE TO ASIAN AMERICAN ACTIVISM.

07/30/2026

Why documentary storytelling starts long before you pick up a camera – especially when you are focusing on vulnerable populations.

UNCOMMITTED Director Razi Jafra explains how he’s built trust to tell very sensitive stories about the Muslim community in Michigan around the 2024 elections. Also, what other media have gotten wrong.

Find this helpful? Watch the complete CAAMFest 2026 Filmmaker Summit panel discussion Building Bridges From Within and Beyond the Muslim Community featuring Zaid A. Hassan (Director, GHUSL), Razi Jafri (Director, UNCOMMITTED), Aizzah Fatima (Director, JUST POTENTIAL, and Mahnoor Euceph (Director, 11:11) in conversation with Leila Abu-saada (Pillars Fund, former Program Manager of CAAM’s Building Bridges Documentary Fund).

See more at the CAAM Channel 🔗 in bio or IG Stories

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07/23/2026

“It’s a White Board for a Reason.”

Hussain Pirani, producer of NBC’s CHICAGO FIRE, explains how brainstorming scenes in a writers room works. Watch more of this conversation, along with more insights from David Loong (Staff Writer, THE HUNTING PARTY) and moderator Michael Pogarian, an award-winning producer and the Senior Manager of Talent Engagement & Inclusion at

This program is supported by NBCU LAUNCH, the umbrella brand for inclusion efforts across NBCUniversal’s entertainment television portfolio, including talent development programs and opportunities to grow creatives’ careers in front of and behind the camera.

See the full conversation from CAAM’s 2026 Filmmaker Summit and Industry Hub panel NBCU LAUNCH Talks: Breaking into Episodic Television on the CAAM Channel.

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07/11/2026

The CAAM-funded documentary AMERICAN DOCTOR is playing at the Festival July 30. This verité documentary directed by follows physicians of Jewish, Palestinian, and Zoroastrian descent as they risk everything to enter Gaza hospitals on a humanitarian mission.

We’re also co-presenting Opening Night film TELL ME EVERYTHING and WHO KILLED ALEX ODEH? on July 22. Get discounted tickets to these screenings by using the code CAAMSFJFF46 at SFJFF.org

07/10/2026

Do you know about the concept of “point of telling”? Karla Murthy director of THE GAS STATION ATTENDANT explains what it is and how to use it in filmmaking.

Watch more of this conversation in our full video from our CAAMFest 2026 Filmmaker Summit: The Creative Process (Feature Documentaries) in Partnership with A-Doc

Also featuring Colette Ghunim (Director, TRACES OF HOME) and Jessica Lee Salas (Editor, BEFORE THE MOON FALLS) in conversation with Theresa Navarro (Co-Director & COO, Catapult Film Fund)

Go to IG Stories or our link in bio to see the whole recording on the CAAM Channel

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