Welcome to the next edition of the Armed With a Camera (AWC) Fellowship for Emerging Media Artists. Since 2002, AWC has developed and supported over 175 Asian American & Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander filmmakers. Cultivating a rising generation of artists committed to social and political changes and movements, these storytellers have empowered communities and challenged perspectives through their creative works.

As we approach a shifting sociopolitical landscape, this year's accompanying theme will surround the idea of "RE-ENVISIONING." We offer to the upcoming cohort to not only ruminate on the Past and the Present, but activate their contemporary perspectives to reshape and reimagine our Future. We empower these artists to use temporal space to interpret the theme and examine this word’s ability to transform the status quo, in their own vision. Artists may create short films using their archives as a resource and use this overarching idea as a point of creative departure.

MEET OUR 2025 FELLOWS

Libby Chun

Meloddy Gao

Coffee Kang

Matthew Kim

Alexandra “Lexie” Orr

Benjamin Pola

SUPPORT AWC

The Armed With a Camera Fellowship is supported by grants and individual donors such as yourself. We are deeply grateful to the friends of the Elizabeth Sung who created the Elizabeth Sung Memorial Scholarship Fund to continue her spirit of supporting emerging artists. All donations are 100% tax-deductible. Thank you all for your continued support of this great program!