Center For Asian American Media Caam Movies

  • 2024
    Home Court

    Home Court

    Home Court

    92024HD

    Filmed over three years, the film follows Ashley Chea, a Cambodian-American basketball phenom. Exploring the highs and lows of her immigrant family,...

    Home Court
  • 2024
    And So It Begins

    And So It Begins

    And So It Begins

    02024HD

    Amidst the traditional pomp and circumstance of Filipino elections, a quirky people’s movement rises to defend the nation against deepening...

    And So It Begins
  • 2022
    Free Chol Soo Lee

    Free Chol Soo Lee

    Free Chol Soo Lee

    7.22022HD

    On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a...

    Free Chol Soo Lee
  • 2020
    The Donut King

    The Donut King

    The Donut King

    7.1822020HD

    Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a multi-million dollar empire by baking America's favourite pastry: the doughnut.

    The Donut King
  • 2025
    Third Act

    Third Act

    Third Act

    82025HD

    Filmmaker Tadashi explores his father Robert A. Nakamura's life as an influential Asian American artist and activist, while grappling with Robert's...

    Third Act
  • 2008
    The Princess of Nebraska

    The Princess of Nebraska

    The Princess of Nebraska

    5.72008HD

    Sasha is a young woman from Beijing, studying in Nebraska. She flies to the Bay Area and meets up with friends, including Boshen, a gay man who was...

    The Princess of Nebraska
  • 2007
    Hollywood Chinese

    Hollywood Chinese

    Hollywood Chinese

    02007HD

    Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance...

    Hollywood Chinese
  • 2017
    Who Is Arthur Chu?

    Who Is Arthur Chu?

    Who Is Arthur Chu?

    6.52017HD

    Documentary feature about 11-time Jeopardy! champion and Internet iconoclast, Arthur Chu.

    Who Is Arthur Chu?
  • 2021
    Try Harder!

    Try Harder!

    Try Harder!

    8.62021HD

    In a universe where cool kids are nerds, the orchestra is world class and being Asian American is the norm, seniors at Lowell High School compete for...

    Try Harder!
  • 2000
    The Debut

    The Debut

    The Debut

    62000HD

    Filipino-American high school student Ben works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined...

    The Debut
  • 2019
    Chinatown Rising

    Chinatown Rising

    Chinatown Rising

    02019HD

    Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1960s, a young San Francisco Chinatown resident armed with a 16mm camera and leftover...

    Chinatown Rising
  • 2000
    Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women

    Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women

    Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women

    102000HD

    A powerful and emotional documentary about Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, Silence...

    Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women
  • 2018
    Call Her Ganda

    Call Her Ganda

    Call Her Ganda

    5.42018HD

    When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist...

    Call Her Ganda
  • 2015
    Among the Believers

    Among the Believers

    Among the Believers

    72015HD

    An unsettling and eye opening exploration into the spread of the radical Islamic school Red Mosque, which trains legions of children to devote their...

    Among the Believers
  • 2008
    Bolinao 52

    Bolinao 52

    Bolinao 52

    02008HD

    Following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, hundreds of thousands refugees took the perilous escape route across South China Sea to find freedom....

    Bolinao 52
  • 2023
    Who We Become

    Who We Become

    Who We Become

    02023HD

    Kapwa, a Filipino term that means "togetherness" or "neighbor", is a recognition of a shared identity; an inner self that is shared with others. WHO...

    Who We Become
  • 2023
    Coming Home Again

    Coming Home Again

    Coming Home Again

    5.82023HD

    A Korean-American man cares for his ailing mother and tries to master her traditional Korean dishes.

    Coming Home Again
  • 2024
    Light of the Setting Sun

    Light of the Setting Sun

    Light of the Setting Sun

    02024HD

    A Taiwanese American filmmaker questions her family’s silence around the cycles of violence that have persisted since the Chinese Communist...

    Light of the Setting Sun
  • 2022
    People Unite!

    People Unite!

    People Unite!

    02022HD

    In the face of AAPI violence, an intergenerational coalition of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, People of Color organizers come together to...

    People Unite!
  • 1995
    A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans

    A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans

    A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans

    01995HD

    A documentary presentation of the lives of 43,000 Koreans brought by the Japanese to Sakhalin for forced labor and abandoned there for 50 years.

    A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans