Eugene Yi’s HBO documentary “The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas” will kick off the 44th CAAMFest.
The film, screening May 7 at AMC Kabuki 8, explores identity and its impact on prominent AAPI figures including actors Sandra Oh and Kumail Nanjiani, U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and journalist Connie Chung.
Other highlights include Khai Thu Nguyen’s “The Dao of Thao,” in which performer Thao P. Nguyen prepares for her autobiographical one-woman show with the help of Oakland comedian W. Kamau Bell and members of San Francisco’s Solo Performance Workshop; “Diamond Diplomacy,” San Francisco filmmaker Yuriko Gamo Romer’s look at how the sport of baseball has helped form a cultural bond between the United States and Japan; and Nisha Balaram’s “Meals That Made Us,” the first three episodes of a CAAM-produced series that explores “how Asian American communities in the Bay Area shape identity, nurture one another, and imagine new futures through food,” according to CAAM.
The oldest and longest running Asian American-themed film festival in North America, operated by the Center for Asian American Media, runs through May 10.