Catalyzed by civil rights movements, the emergence of Asian American filmmaking has been characterized by a pioneer generation from the post-1968 era and subsequent establishment of media organizations like VC and ACV. This roundtable revisits this foundational history in defining the categories of Asian American film. In conversation with Film Quarterly’s 2020 dossier “Asian American Film at 50,” our participants discuss possibilities of charting new methodological approaches for the study of Asian American media. We invite scholars to rethink Asian American film history across media, locality, and periodization. Looking beyond stardom, Melissa Phruksachart discusses the history of craft and industry struggle in Hollywood’s “archives of embarrassment.” Yiman Wang and Daisuke Miyao reframe Asian American film history across global scales. Wang considers un-seen labor and the circulation of diasporic Chinese entertainment workers across multi-sited film industries, while Miyao explores development of early film techniques and technology by Japanese Americans working between US and Japan. Focused on politics of film preservation, Denise Khor and Ashley Dequilla consider the materiality of film for writing new historiographies. Khor reflects on lost films, archival rediscoveries, and “feminist media archive critique” for interventions in Asian American film history. Dequilla discusses recovering over 300 16mm home movies that depict the Filipino diaspora in Chicago, 5 of which received the 2024 National Film Preservation Foundation Award. What tantalizing possibilities emerge across new approaches to archives and curation? Brian Hu rethinks the possibilities of the “Asian American film festival,” what it can do, and who it can be for.