Center for Asian American Media
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Like many young Cambodian Americans who arrived in the U.S. as refugees in the ’80s, Loeun Lun, Many Uch and Kim Ho Ma hoped for the best. Little did they know that their destinies, guided by youthful mistakes and the unforeseeable events of 9/11, would bring them full-circle decades later: from birth in Cambodia to an unwilling return...After fleeing the Khmer Rouge and settling in Seattle, each was drawn into gang life, and ultimately jail. According...
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
From silent film star Sessue Hayakawa to Harold & Kumar Go to Whitecastle, THE SLANTED SCREEN explores the portrayals of Asian men in American cinema, chronicling the experiences of actors who have had to struggle against ethnic stereotyping and limiting roles. The film presents a critical examination of Hollywood's image-making machine, through a fascinating parade of 50 film Filmclips spanning a century.. Winner of the Best Short Documentary award...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Follows ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro over the course of a musical season, capturing dynamic performances before sold-out crowds, intimate moments of life on the road, and visits to his native Hawai'i, where he has risen from local hero to international star.
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
ROOTS IN THE SAND challenges prevailing impressions of the rugged frontier by enriching the landscape with stalwart Sikh, Moslem and Hindu settlers in this Mexican-Punjabi version of the "taming of the Wild West. Federal laws prevented "non-white Caucasians" like themselves from going home to marry, importing brides, or becoming American citizens. Instead, they married Mexican fieldworkers - women with the same color as themselves - with the blessings...
5) Mele Murals
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A documentary about the transformative power of art through the unlikely union of graffiti and ancient Hawaiian culture. At the center of this story are the artists Estria Miyashiro (aka Estria) and John Hina (aka Prime), and a group of Native Hawaiian youth from the rural community of Waimea, HI. Together they create a mural that addresses the ill effects of environmental changes and encroaching modernization on their native culture.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural innovation. It is a timely, clear-eyed look at the vital role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation. Their stories are a celebration of the grit and resilience of a people that reflects the experience of all Americans.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
“How many harvests do you have in you?” is the perennial echo that reverberates across the Masumoto Family farm. CHANGING SEASON: ON THE MASUMOTO FAMILY FARM chronicles a transitional year-in-the-life of famed farmer, slow food advocate, and sansei, David “Mas” Masumoto, and his compelling relationship with daughter Nikiko, who returns to the family farm with the intention of stepping into her father’s work boots. Mas’ hopes and hesitations...
9) 9-man
Publisher
9-Man Merchandise
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"9-MAN uncovers an isolated and unique streetball tournament played by Chinese-Americans in the heart of Chinatowns across the USA and Canada. Largely undiscovered by the mainstream, the game is a gritty, athletic, chaotic urban treasure traditionally played in parking lots and back alleys. 9-Man grew in the 1930s, at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment and laws forced restaurant workers and laundrymen to socialize exclusively amongst themselves. Today...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A thousand years of good prayers: A woman in her early 40s moves from China to America to start a new life. Her father comes to visit her because of her recent divorce. Their social and generational conflicts end up revealing the darker lies and cover-ups within her family during the Cultural Revolution.
The princess of Nebraska: A China-born 18-year-old finds herself four months pregnant. She interrupts her studies to travel from Nebraska to San...
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A seven-part documentary series arguing that "health and longevity are correlated with socioeconomic status; people of color face an additional health burden, and our health and well-being are tied to policies that promote economic and social justice. Each of the half-hour program segments, set in different racial/ethnic communities, provides a deeper exploration of the ways in which social conditions affect population health and how some communities...
12) Jaddoland
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Jaddoland explores diasporic longing and the meaning of home across generations. When the filmmaker returns to her hometown in the Texas panhandle to visit her mother, an artist from Iraq, she turns her lens on her mother's increasingly isolated life, as well as the beauty and solace that emerge through her creative process--IMDb.
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Exploring the intersection of consumerism and immigration in American culture, XMAS WITHOUT CHINA is an intimate portrait of families wrestling with our drive to consume cheap products, but also with our desire for human connection and a sense of who we are in a fast-changing world. Pride and mischief inspire Chinese immigrant Tom Xia to challenge the Americans in his Southern California suburb to celebrate Christmas without any Chinese products....
14) When I walk
Publisher
AXS Lab Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In 2006, 25-year-old Jason DaSilva's legs stopped functioning and he collapsed. Months earlier, doctors had diagnosed him with multiple sclerosis, which can lead to loss of vision, muscle control, and a myriad of other complications. As his illness worsens, Jason picks up the camera, turns it on his declining body, and sets out on a worldwide journey in search of healing, self-discovery, and love.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Follows the creation of the San Francisco Opera's celebrated production of The Bonesetter's Daughter, based on Amy Tan's book of the same name. Bringing together artists from China and the U.S, the opera tells a deeply moving story about the difficult but unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters.
16) Summer pasture
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Tibetan
Description
"Filmed in the high grasslands of eastern Tibet [in 2007], Summer pasture offers an intimate glimpse into the life of a young nomad couple and their infant daughter. Locho and his wife Yama live in Dzachukha, eastern Tibet--nicknamed '5-most' by the Chinese for being the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote country in Sichuan Province. They depend on their herd of yaks for survival, much as their ancestors have for generations. In recent...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The documentary follows a defiant movement of women of color as they transform politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the series follows organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved, and made stronger, by those most marginalized.
Publisher
Center for Asian American Media (formerly NAATA) [distributor]
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
During World War II more than half of the 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent who were evacuated to American concentration camps were children. In this documentary six Japanese Americans who were incarcerated as children in the camps reveal their experiences, cultural and familial issues during incarceration, the long internalized grief and shame they felt and how this early trauma manifested itself in their adult lives.