FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (909) 869-3899 MANAA Announces Its Seventh Media Scholarship LOS ANGELES- MANAA, the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, is pleased to announce its $1000 scholarship for currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate students interested in pursuing careers as filmmakers and in television production (not broadcast journalism). Formed in 1992, MANAA is the…
MANAA and other Asian American activist groups will be protesting the film ‘The Goods’ TOMORROW at Paramount. Join us at 4:30pm, Friday Aug 21 Paramount Studios 5555 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA We believe that the film condones the beating of Asian Americans and makes light of hate crimes. Please email us at letters@manaa.org if…
Congratulations to Maya Yamahata, who won the tickets to see Kollaboration 3 on August 22nd and will be attending with her mother! Thanks to all who entered. Stay tuned to MANAA’s blog for more exciting giveaways in the future.
(1) MANAA August Meeting – CANCELED! Please note that we are canceling the MANAA general meeting normally scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 20th. We’re taking some extra time this month to do some serious planning for several exciting projects that we have coming up. Again: There is no general meeting in August. We’ll see you in…
Kollaboration Acoustic 3 will take place on Saturday, August 22nd 2009, 7:30pm at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood as the third and final Kollaboration show to take place in Southern California this year. Acoustic 3 will bring to the arena musicians that perform their vocals with various non-electrical instruments such as percussions, string…
Scholarship 2008 MANAA Announces Its Sixth Media Scholarship LOS ANGELES- MANAA, the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, is pleased to announce one $1000 scholarship for currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate students interested in pursuing careers as filmmakers and in television production (not broadcast journalism). Formed in 1992, MANAA is the only organization solely dedicated…
Shalini Kantayya, filmmaker, educator, and activist uses film/video as a tool to educate, inspire, and empower audiences. Shalini recently received the 2001 William D. Fulbright Fellowship to make a documentary film about political street theatre in India. Her recent documentary, MANTHAN ( THE CHURNING ) received the first prize award for best documentary at…