Center for Asian American Media

UNNATURAL CAUSES airs on KQED this Thursday

Posted March 26, 2008 by rsotelo in On Public Television

unnatural_causes_blog.gif A four-hour documentary series exploring our socio-economic and racial inequities in health. Airing four consecutive Thursdays at 10:00pm, March 27 to April 17, 2008.
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LITTLE MANILA on PBS May 2008

Posted March 5, 2008 by rsotelo in On Public Television

littlemanila_blog.jpg LITTLE MANILA: Filipinos in California’s Heartland tells the immigrant story as Filipinos experienced it.
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SIKHS IN AMERICA on PBS in May 2008

Posted by rsotelo in On Public Television

sikh_blog.jpg SIKHS IN AMERICA is a half hour documentary profiling the Sikh community in the United States. The program takes an in-depth look inside the Sikh community with its religious and cultural practices, social and family traditions, and economic and work life.
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NEW YEAR BABY Premiering on Independent Lens

Posted October 31, 2007 by michella in On Public Television

new_years_baby.jpg Born in a Thai refugee camp on Cambodian New Year, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the United States never knowing that her family had survived the Khmer Rouge genocide.
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OUT OF THE POISON TREE on Public Television February 2008

Posted by michella in On Public Television

poison_tree.jpg An American survivor of the Cambodian genocide hopes to unlock the mystery of her father’s disappearance in 1975.
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OH, SAIGON Premiering on PBS in May 2008

Posted by michella in On Public Television

oh_saigon_vespa.jpg A Vietnamese family attempts to resolve its divided past when three brothers, one capitalist, one communist, one anti-war, who fought against each other in the Vietnam War meet again after decades and confront their differences. Meanwhile, two first-generation Vietnamese American sisters try to reconcile a difficult past that altered the course of their lives.
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A DREAM IN DOUBT Premiering on Independent Lens in May 2008

Posted by michella in On Public Television

dream.jpg America’s first post-9/11 hate crime murder punctuated a growing wave of violence in retaliation for the terror attacks.
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MIGHTY WARRIORS OF COMEDY by Sung H. Kim

Posted by michella in Featured

mmwc.jpg Look out for MIGHTY WARRIORS OF COMEDY on PBS in January 2008. Hailed as one of the most devastatingly funny comedy troupes of the past decade, the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors are an audacious Asian American sketch comedy group from San Francisco. Their material tackles socio-political issues with a hilarious combination of irreverence and seriousness, [...]
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