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Bay Area’s CAAMFest: Top 5 films to watch at this year’s fest

The showcase for the best Asian and Asian-American films kicks off with the documentary “An American Story: Norman Mineta and His Legacy,” which chronicles the life and career of the former San Jos…

The Mercury News

Now Playing! CAAMFest Salutes Pathbreakers, Then and Now

Over three-plus decades, the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival has expanded, evolved and shape-shifted into the cultural compendium CAAMFest.

KQED

Norman Mineta documentary to premiere at CAAMFest in S.F.

Dianne Fukami’s film about the trailblazing politician will open the 36th annual film festival.

The Mercury News

10 films to see at Asian American CAAMFest 36

10 films to see If you were limited to just 10, these would be the top choices (in alphabetical order): An American Story: Norman Mineta and His Legacy: The clear rock star of the festival is Norm Mineta, the former resident of a Japanese internment camp, U.S. congressman and Cabinet secretary under two presidents, who…

SFGate

CAAM Fest Mixes Film, Music and Theater for its 36th Edition

The Center for Asian American Media broadens its film fest to include theater and music .

KQED

Mineta Docu to Open S.F.’s CAAMFest 36 | Pacific Citizen | The National Newspaper of the JACL

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A Tribute to Norman Mineta from Assemblymember Evan Low

"As an Asian American youth growing up in the Bay Area, Secretary Mineta served as the prime example of political and civic empowerment of the Asian Pacific American (APA) community."

CAAM Home

Norman Mineta doc part of the local spotlight at CAAMFest 2018

Masashi Niwano, festival and exhibitions director at the Center for Asian American Media, can imagine two former presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, walking the red carpet at the Castro Theatre when CAAMFest 2018 gets under way on May 10. Though perhaps unlikely to happen, it is a vision rooted in the unique place…

SFChronicle.com

Behind a WWII internment camp’s barbed wire, two Scouts forged a bond. It endured when they both entered Congress.

Nearly 75 years later, internee Norman Mineta and jamboree visitor Alan K. Simpson return to the Wyoming site where Mineta and his Japanese American family were confined.

Washington Post