MAKING WAVES

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.

This program is co-presented by KoHo Co-Creative Hub, Japanese Community Youth Council, Asian American Journalists Association, and the Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco.

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