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CAAMFEST Film Screening and Q&A: MAKING WAVES, dir. Jon Osaki and Josh Chuck, @ AMC Kabuki

  • AMC Kabuki 1881 Post Street San Francisco, CA, 94115 United States (map)

Directors Jon Osaki and Josh Chuck will be in attendance for the screening + Q&A, moderated by Don Young, Director of Programs at CAAM.

Making Waves is a timely, thought-provoking documentary about how ethnic studies – and specifically Asian American Studies (AAS) – dramatically influenced and empowered a generation. They leveraged their heightened awareness of history to build community organizations, political power, and collaboration.

Helmed by Bay Area filmmakers Jon Osaki (Not Your Model Minority, Alternative Faces: The Lies of Executive Order 9066) and Josh Chuck (Chinatown Rising), the CAAM-funded film follows a group of youth who travel to the Texas state capitol to fight for Asian American Studies in the deep South. This type of activism harks back to the Bay Area-based ethnic studies movement of the 1960’s, and the film highlights recent efforts by youth to address anti-Asian hate and learn Asian American history.

Making Waves is made possible in part with funding from AAPI History Hub.

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