CAAM Strategic Partnerships 22-23

Americans, which at the time consisted of ugly and simplistic stereotypes. As the leading Asian American media arts organization today, CAAM’s 42-year legacy has been built on impactful storytelling, community connections, and a mission to promote authentic representation of Asian Americans in public media and beyond.

BROADCAST

MENTOR

CAAM offers fellowships, career development opportunities, and critical funding for independent filmmakers working on provocative, timely, and underrepresented stories.

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Since 1982, CAAM has presented over 300 documentary films for national public television, including 81 in the past four years. Learn more>> DISTRIBUTE & ENGAGE

CAAM houses the most extensive collection of Asian American documentaries in the world for educational use and community screenings. 
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CURATION

Each year, CAAMFest presents and hosts up to: 100 200 15K+

film screenings and public programs filmmakers + industry guests attendees MEDIAMAKERS

CAAM nurtures creative talent and provides support for provocative and timely Asian American film and media projects: 60+ $10M+ fellows and mentors since 2011 in completion grants awarded to more than 400 projects

productions and digital content include Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March. Contact us to learn about opportunities to support Asian American content.

Help nurture the next generation of storytellers by supporting our annual CAAM Fellowship Program. Other recent fellowships include The Sauce Fellowship, Hindsight Project, and HOMEGROWN: Future Visions, focused on investing in makers in the American South and Midwest.

With access to the most extensive collection of Asian American documentaries in the world, CAAM offers expertise in curating a range of documentary, narrative, and episodic content for distribution platforms and employee education programs.

From film screenings and panels to impactful convenings, CAAM collaborates with partners on programming nationwide. Recent highlights include the Midwest Asian American Documentary Filmmakers Convening and Vincent Chin 40th Remembrance & Rededication events in Detroit.

CAAMFEST

CAAMFest is the world's leading showcase for new Asian American film, food, and music.

Since 1982, the festival has been an important launching point in the San Francisco Bay Area for Asian American independent filmmakers and a platform to honor the legacies of cultural icons. Join us in celebrating the power of our community’s stories and voices!

CAAMFest 2023 At a Glance

Mark your calendars! CAAM is celebrating 41 years of diverse Asian American stories next May 11-21, 2023 with an exciting slate of in-person and virtual programming.

This coming year, CAAMFest will be expansive and challenging in the types of narratives we present and the experiences we highlight. Through film, food, music, ideas, and multidisciplinary events, we will embrace the themes of equity and sustainability, radical joy and empowerment, and community building.

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at the Filmmakers Brunch & Awards Ceremony

CAAMFEST BENEFITS

Work with us to design a tailored sponsorship package in support of your goals.

See below for initial ways you can reach CAAMFest audiences.

*Number of pre-roll video spots may vary depending on full sponsorship package details

**Number of affiliated programs may vary depending on full sponsorship package details

SHOUT OUTS

CAAM makes visible the heartwarming, joyful, tragic, funny, infuriating, complicated REAL stories of our diverse Asian and Pacific Islander communities; in doing so, CAAM brings forth stories that move AAPIs from margin to center, asserting our full, complex and beautiful humanity.

-Helen Zia, Journalist and Activist

When I communicated the need to expand opportunities to be more inclusive of undocumented artists, [CAAM] was so intentional in finding ways to remove these barriers for artists like myself... in a field full of no’s and rejections, an initial yes’ like the one [CAAM] gave me is truly invaluable.

On growing up going to the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (now CAAMFest): There were a lot of films like that I saw growing up that had a huge impact on me because I didn’t have to go through this struggle to believe that Asian Americans were capable of creating great art. I knew it.

- Ali Wong, Comedian

CAAM is adriver of culture. CAAM creates and defines culture in terms of the way that our communities are telling their stories, the way those stories are being enabled to find and develop and expand an audience. And that is what defines culture, which defines society.

- Karim Ahmad, Sundance

Few festivals anywhere have embraced change—nay, reinvention—in recent years like the Center for Asian American Media.

- Michael Fox, KQED

[My favorite moment was] hanging out with family, giving [my] kids insight into the diversity of Asian Americans in arts and film industry. Yes! If you want to do this, go for it. There are other Asians Americans doing this work.

- Vonnie C, CAAMFest Audience Member

- Set Hernandez Rongkilyo, Filmmaker