CAAMFest spotlights best of AAPI film

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The festival is a celebration and declaration of AAPI power

Timed to coincide with AAPI Heritage Month, the 2024 edition of CAAMFest returns to showcase the best of Asian and Asian American film, as well as food, music and culture.

It’s a tricky balance, and the film gets it just right. It features intelligent discussions from both sides of the issue while acknowledging that the real issue is much bigger and systemic. While Robredo tends to a growing grassroots campaign, Marcos resorts to bombarding voters with lies and disinformation and using eerily familiar rhetoric such as “we shall make this nation great again.”

The exhilarating documentary “Home Court,” directed by SFSU grad Erica Tanamachi, is a slightly more uplifting story about the extraordinarily gifted basketball player Ashley Chea and her journey through high school toward college. At first, derailed by both COVID and an injury, Chea works her way back and, in her senior year, leads a charge toward the state championship. Tanamachi’s camera reveals Chea as, surprisingly, a pretty normal teen who simply loves basketball, has a temper, argues with her parents and never gives up.Tarek Albaba’s “36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime” is another brutal documentary, but one that makes an impact.

 

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