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On Thursday, May 25 from 4-5pm ET on YouTube Live, Firelight Media hosted Beyond Resilience: AAPI Cultural Icons, a virtual conversation celebrating AAPI cultural icons as seen through the lens of AAPI filmmakers.

It would be impossible to stitch the cultural fabric of the U.S. without threading together the infinite stories of AAPI changemakers. Yet AAPI folx are continuously underrepresented in media – including the documentary film industry – both in front of and behind the lens. Thanks to organizations like the Center for Asian American Media and A-Doc who center AAPI filmmakers and communities with their programs, the breadth and diversity of AAPI cultural contributions are now being highlighted through numerous documentary projects.

Moderator Gerry Leonard, Director of Filmmaker Services and Impact at Working Films, is joined by three Firelight Media-supported filmmakers whose films were recently featured at CAAMFest – the Center for Asian American Media’s annual festival of film, music and food: Ursula Liang (ESPN’s Jeanette Lee Vs.), Dustin Nakao-Haider (Firelight Media and American Masters’ Ethan Lim: Cambodian Futures), and Hao Zhou (Here, Hopefully from Firelight Media, CAAM & PBS).