"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more when it is in context."
— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project
"The understanding of a culture comes from hearing the language, tasting the food, seeing personal interactions, experiencing the traditions, and so much more in context."
— Elizabeth Laval & Candice Pendergrass, Sikh Youth Public History Project
Image: Sundance Institute. PBS National Broadcast—In 1970s San Francisco, 20-year-old Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is racially profiled and convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. After spending years fighting to survive, investigative journalist K.W. Lee takes a special interest in his case, igniting an unprecedented social justice movement. Nearly five decades later, FREE CHOL SOO […]
SANTA ROSA–Set in Northern California, BY MY SIDE is an intimate portrait of three veterans suffering from the “invisible wound,” called post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is the most prevalent and unhealed wound suffered by veterans. Approximately 20% of those who served in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars are still haunted by visions, chased by enemies […]
LOS ANGELES SCREENING–The UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association present FREE CHOL SOO LEE on May 6, 2023. The film is being screened as part of "Making Waves," a series featuring contemporary BIPOC filmmakers whose works awed audiences when they premiered and continue to cause a ripple today. After a […]
RIVERSIDE–Join UCR ARTS for a special screening of FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK! The film will screen as part of UCR ARTS' inaugural AAPI Film Series, supported by the Voy and Fay Wong Family Endowment. A live performance by Fanny bandmates with Q&A — including filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart — will follow the screening. Synopsis: […]
SAN DIEGO–Set in Northern California, BY MY SIDE is an intimate portrait of three veterans suffering from the “invisible wound,” called post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is the most prevalent and unhealed wound suffered by veterans. Approximately 20% of those who served in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars are still haunted by visions, chased by enemies […]
SAN FRANCISCO–Join us for a special community partner screening of FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK! This California Documentary Project-supported documentary will screen during CAAMFest's 2023 season, continuing the world’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian film, food, and music programs in San Francisco and Oakland. Since 1982, the film festival has been an […]
PBS–FANNY THE RIGHT TO ROCK will premiere on PBS nationally Monday, May 22,10 p.m. ET, and stream on PBS.org and the PBS App. The film, directed by Bobbi Jo Hart and winner of the coveted Hot Docs Audience Choice Award, chronicles the life and revival of this groundbreaking all-female rock group in 1970s America, revealing the […]
PBS PREMIERE– The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) and PBS announced the May 22nd broadcast premiere and streaming launch for the critically-acclaimed documentary FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK. The film, directed by Bobbi Jo Hart and winner of the coveted Hot Docs Audience Choice Award, chronicles the life and revival of this groundbreaking all-female […]
SAN FRANCISCO–Attend the hometown feature debut of HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY, directed by Leslie Tai. Tai, who grew up in San Francisco, brings her film to the San Francisco Documentary Film Festival on June 3, 2023. HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY is a kaleidoscopic voyage into the booming shadow economy catering to […]
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