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This #GivingTuesday, your support keeps CAAM a vital home for Asian American media, even in uncertain times. We’re moving forward with the purpose that inspired our creation—building a community where storytelling thrives. Donations matched up to $10K!

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Building Bridges Documentary Fund Building Bridges Documentary Fund Films 2025-26 Building Bridges Documentary Fund Films 2024-25 Our Building Bridges application is now closed and will reopen in Spring 2026. Please subscribe to...

Learn more about these projects and the Building Bridges initiative on the CAAM website caamedia.org/building-bri...

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Meet the second cohort of CAAM’s Building Bridges Documentary Fund! $1M will support 16 Fellows sharing stories from U.S. Muslim communities, with support from the Doris Duke Foundation.

With the loss of federal funding for CAAM, the need has never been more urgent. Stories about Asian America are at risk of being erased. If we don’t invest in them NOW, we may lose a critical piece of the American narrative.

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Since 1980, CAAM has been more than an org—it's been a HOME for stories of resilience, joy, struggle, and triumph across Asian America. These aren’t just stories. They’re American stories—vital, vibrant, and often overlooked. 🇺🇲 🗽

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CAAM’s Campaign for the Future of Storytelling is an ambitious fundraising initiative: to build on our promise to strengthen and sustain vital stories about Asian America, now and in the future.

Please consider making a fully tax-deductible gift to CAAM.
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Ada Tseng on Breaking Into New Hollywood as an Asian American Ada Tseng says she partially wrote the book, Breaking Into New Hollywood: A Career Guide to a Changing Industry (Simon and Schuster), for Asian American children and their immigrant parents. As an ent...

BREAKING INTO NEW HOLLYWOOD by Ada Tseng (our CAAMFest 2025 web editor) and Jon Healy drops today! Read our in-depth Q&A on how this book is especially helpful for Asian Americans 📙 caamedia.org/blog/2025/08...

We did it! Thanks to you, CAAM raised more than $25K in our match challenge, even as public media faces devastating cuts.
Your support ensures Asian American stories continue to be seen, heard, and celebrated nationwide.

Thanks for believing in the power of storytelling to inspire hope and change.

Journalists: If you're at #AAJA2025 come to our Filmmaker Collab on Saturday with CAAM, @aadocnetwork.bsky.social and Prisca 🎥 RSVP for the details ttps://form.typeform.com/to/lfNiCkjB

And we will continue to work towards the ideal of creating media about Asian American experiences, for the common good.

Since our founding 45 years ago, public media has been a core part of our storytelling work

We are deeply disappointed by Congress' vote to take back funding for public media. But we remain committed to elevating Asian American stories.

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It's your last chance to speak up for public media! The House will vote today or tomorrow to take back public media funding. Contact your representative now and urge them to vote NO on rescissions actionnetwork.org/letters/save... #publicmedia

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The Senate is expected to vote this week to take back funding from public media. Contact your Senator today and tell them to vote NO on the rescissions bill. Go here to contact with with one click actionnetwork.org/letters/save... #ProtectMyPublicMedia

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Public media is under threat. The Senate will vote by July 18 on whether to clawback funding for public media, which includes much of our work to uplift stories about Asian Americans. Call your Senator today and tell them to vote NO on CPB rescission

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The Senate will vote within days on a proposal to cut funding for public media. We're urging you to call your Senator today and urge them to vote NO on the CPB rescissions bill and save Asian American stories. #ProtectMyPublicMedia

This Fourth of July, remember that Asian American stories are American stories

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Call your Senator today and urge them to vote NO on the CPB rescissions bill and save public media funding. #ProtectMyPublicMedia

dark gray background with text: How CPB Funding Affects CAAM We draw on direct support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to bring the authentic stories from many Asian American backgrounds, cultures, and geographic regions of the United States to public media outlets and their digital platforms

Asian American documentary filmmaking would not be what it is today without the support @CAAM has received from public media.

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Public media is under threat. Here are some things you should know #ProtectMyPublicMedia

A Review of the President’s Special Message of June 3, 2025 | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

Watch the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on public media rescissions #ProtectMyPublicMedia www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-r...

House votes to kill funding for public media The U.S. House voted Thursday on a rescission bill to claw back money for foreign aid programs, along with the next two years of funding for the public media system. The measure now goes to the Senate...

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Today's the day. Congress is expected to vote on the whether to cut funding to public media. If you care about public media programs -- including those about Asian American experiences -- call your representative now. Go to ProtectMyPublicMedia.org and get connected.

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Call or email your congressional representative today! If you don’t know who they are or how to contact them, visit ProtectMyPublicMedia.org #ProtectMyPublicMedia

Public media has been instrumental for developing films from Asian America #ProtectMyPublicMedia

CAAM receives funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports documentary films about Asian American experiences - some of which are broadcast or streamed on PBS #ProtectMyPublicMedia