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AAS 2019
FILM EXPO
Living Asia, Shifting Ecologies   ALL FILM SCREENINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC*
                                                      *Conference registration is not required.
AAS 2019 Living Asia, Shifting Ecologies - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
           Thursday, March 21, 2019                                              Friday, March 22, 2019
           12:30pm Driving with Selvi (52 min, Q&A, India) – p. 10               8:30am Purdah (71 min, India) – p. 11

           1:30pm 		 Remittance (90 min, Q&A, Philippines & Singapore) – p. 13   9:50am Lovesick (74 min, Q&A, India & US) – p. 11
           3:10pm Our Land is the Sea (26 min, Q&A, Indonesia) – p. 13           11:15am LGBTQ Shorts from Southeast Asia (58 min, Q&A,
                                                                                 				      Philippines & Indonesia) – p. 14
           3:45pm China, One Million Artists (53 min, China) – p. 3
                                                                                 12:30pm Ghost Tape #10 (28 min, Q&A, Vietnam) – p. 15
           4:50pm Over The Sky (41 min, Q&A, Japan) – p. 6
                                                                                 1:10pm Mother, Daughter, Sister (29 min, Q&A, Burma (Myanmar))
           5:45pm – BREAK –
                                                                                         – p. 15
           7:30pm Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort
                                                                                 1:50pm Drokpa: Nomads of Tibet (57 min, Q&A, Tibet) – p. 3
                    Women Issue (120 min, Q&A, Japan, USA, Korea) – p. 6
                                                                                 3:00pm Noh Men: The Spirit of Noh (46 min, Q&A, Japan) – p. 7
           9:45pm – END SCREENINGS –                                             3:55pm Shunga and the Japanese (87 min, Q&A, Japan) – p. 7

                                                                                 5:35pm – BREAK –

                                                                                 7:45pm Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. (100 min, Sri Lanka, India, UK & US)
                                                                                         – p. 10

                                                                                 9:35pm – END SCREENINGS –
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AAS 2019 Living Asia, Shifting Ecologies - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
Saturday, March 23, 2019
8:30am One Dollar Series (66 min, Q&A, Cambodia) – p. 16              Film titles in each regional section are
                                                                   listed in order of presentation, and include
9:45am Taapar (Scorched) (23 min, Q&A, India) – p. 12              director/producer, year of release, country
10:20am Plastic China (82 min, Q&A, China – p. 4                     featured, duration, film description, and
                                                                                distribution contacts.
11:55am Jamilia (84 min, Kyrgyzstan) – p. 4

1:30pm Playing Frisbee in North Korea (86 min, Q&A, North Korea)

                                                                                                                  Schedule
         – p. 8

3:10pm Great Walls (28 min, Q&A, China, US & Germany) – p. 5
                                                                       Screenings are located in
                                                                         Governor’s Square 17
3:50pm Day of the Western Sunrise (75 min, Japan) – p. 8
                                                                        in the Sheraton Denver
5:15pm Tarinae (93 min, Q&A, Japan) – p. 9
                                                                           Downtown Hotel.
7:00pm – END SCREENINGS –

                                                                   On-demand screenings are located in the
                                                                           Governor’s Square 9.
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China & Inner Asia   China, One Million Artists			                              Thursday, March 21, 2019, 3:45pm
                     Produced by Arte France. 2017. China. 53 minutes.
                     China has been the biggest art seller in the entire world since 2012. Yet they remain relatively
                     unknown compared to these numbers. Although two artists—Basquiat and Koons—account for
                     50% of the American market, China has placed 47 artists in the top 100—nearly half of them are
                     newcomers. Through personal encounters with the most original and avant-garde artists—in their
                     workshops or during performances—this film sets out to understand their work and what motivates
                     them, as well as their fight against censorship.
                     Distributed by Films Media Group, an Infobase Company.
                     www.films.com

                     Drokpa: Nomads of Tibet				 Friday, March 22, 2019, 1:50pm
                     Directed by Yan Chun Su. 2016 (2018 Educational Release). Tibet. 57 minutes.
                       In-person Q&A with Yan Chun Su.
                     The grasslands of the Tibetan plateau are home to the source of Asia’s major rivers. Nearly half
                     of humanity depends on this water for survival. Tibetan nomads, known as Drokpa have roamed
                     on this land for thousands of years. Set in the high plateau of eastern Tibet, Drokpa is an intimate
                     portrait of the lives and struggles of an extended family of Tibetan nomads whose life in on the
                     cusp of irreversible change as once lush grasslands are rapidly turning into deserts, revealing the
                     unprecedented environmental and sociopolitical forces that are pushing the Tibetan nomads to the
                     edge of their existence.
                     Distributed by Collective Eye Films.
                     www.collectiveeye.org
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Plastic China		                			                       Saturday, March 23, 2019, 10:20am

                                                                                                       China & Inner Asia
Directed by Jiuliang Wang. 2016. China. 82 minutes. In-person Q&A with Gary Marcuse.
One of 25 films in the Global Environmental Justice Documentaries collection, Plastic China captures
the striking, melancholic beauty of a vast and lifeless artificial landscape—a Chinese countryside
covered almost entirely in imported plastic. Men and women build lives upon this waste, and children
learn about the outside world through tattered Western advertisements and tabloid images. Selected
for the series by Ken Berthel (Whittier College) as a film that inspires discussion about a number
of salient topics, including globalization, modernity, the rural-urban divide, and the human and
environmental impacts of consumerist culture.
Learn more at: http://GlobalEnvironmentalJustice.com
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures.
https://www.journeyman.tv/

Jamilia					                                             Saturday, March 23, 2019, 11:55am
Directed by Aminatou Echard. 2018. Kyrgyzstan. 84 minutes.
This mesmerizing film, shot in Kyrgyzstan on richly saturated Super-8 footage, is a search for the
heroine of Chinghiz Aitmatov’s novel about a young woman who rebels against the strict rules of her
society. Contemporary Kyrgyz women, in talking about Jamilia, reveal their own desires, the social
rules they chafe under and their ideas of freedom.
Distributed by Icarus Films.
http://icarusfilms.com

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China & Inner Asia   Great Walls		                   			                       Saturday, March 23, 2019, 3:10pm
                     Directed by Bill Callahan. 2019. China, US, Germany. 28 minutes. In-person Q&A with Bill Callahan.
                     Donald Trump has made walls into a hot topic. This documentary film examines the politics of walls,
                     such as Trump’s and the historic barricades of the Berlin Wall and Great Wall of China, through the
                     ways they are experienced. Great walls are brought to life with archive and contemporary footage
                     showing how they work as sites of conservative and progressive ideology as well as emotional
                     spaces of everyday experience. Rather than conclude that walls are either good or bad, we look at
                     how they evoke horror and wonder.
                     Distributed by the filmmaker.
                     Contact: w.a.callahan@gmail.com

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Over The Sky                    			                       Thursday, March 21, 2019, 4:50pm

                                                                                                      Northeast Asia
Directed by Toko Shiiki. 2018. Japan. 41 minutes. In-person Q&A with Toko Shiiki and Erik Santos.
This documentary shares the power of inspiration as seen through a music teacher, Ms. Abe, and
her junior high school brass band, who live around the coast of Fukushima, Japan – an area that
was strongly affected by the disasters of 2011. Seven years after the disaster, Ms. Abe encountered
another big challenge. However, she never gives up music and life and keeps moving forward with
hope.
Distributed by the filmmaker.

                                                                                                                   Northeast
http://tokoshiiki.com

Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the
 Comfort Women Issue 		                                   Thursday, March 21, 2019, 7:30pm

                                                                                                      Asia
Directed by Miki Dezaki. 2018. Japan, USA, Korea. 120 minutes. Online Q&A with Miki Dezaki.
Inside Japan, the “comfort women” issue is dividing the country across clear ideological lines.
Supporters and detractors of “comfort women” are caught in a relentless battle over empirical
evidence, the validity of oral testimony, the number of victims, the meaning of sexual slavery, and
the definition of coercive recruitment. This film delves deep into the most contentious debates
and uncovers the hidden intentions of the supporters and detractors of comfort women. Most
importantly it finds answers to some of the biggest questions for Japanese and Koreans: Were
comfort women prostitutes or sex slaves? Were they coercively recruited? And, does Japan have a
legal responsibility to apologize to the former comfort women?
Distributed by the filmmaker.
Contact: mikine.films@gmail.com                                                                             6
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Northeast Asia   Noh Men: The Spirit of Noh                        		            Friday, March 22, 2019, 3:00pm
                             Directed by Jeffrey Dym. 2018. Japan. 46 minutes. In-person Q&A with Jeffrey Dym.
                             One of the most distinctive aspects of noh theatre are the masks that performers wear. In many
                             ways, the masks are what give noh its unique, mysterious feel. This documentary takes you deep
                             into the world of noh masks: from the trees they are made from, through their carving and painting;
                             from their selection prior to performance, to their handling afterwards; and from the hands of
                             collectors to the newest creations. This film serves as a great introduction into noh with its overview
                             of noh history and form, its performance footage, and its insightful backstage footage.
                             Distributed by the filmmaker.
Northeast Asia

                             https://www.youtube.com/user/Dymsensei/featured

                             Shunga and the Japanese                                         Friday, March 22, 2019, 3:55pm
                             Directed and produced by Atsushi Ogaki. 2018. Japan. 87 minutes.
                                Online Q&A with Atsushi Ogaki.
                             Shunga are a genre of explicit and beautifully detailed erotic woodblock prints and paintings
                             produced in Japan from 1600 to 1900. Although this art form inspired artists as prominent as
                             Picasso, Shunga was banned in Japan for much of the 20th century. This movie unveils the hidden
                             story of how this unique art form has been treated viciously within Japanese social and cultural
                             histories through interviews with historians and researchers.
                             Distributed by the filmmaker.
                             Contact: atsushi.ogaki@nifty.com

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Playing Frisbee in North Korea                             Saturday, March 23, 2019, 1:30pm

                                                                                                        Northeast Asia
Directed by Savanna Washington. 2019. North Korea. 86 minutes.
   In-person Q&A with Savanna Washington.
Playing Frisbee in North Korea features vérité footage from inside the country, along with interviews
with North Korean refugees, long time aid workers, scholars, and experts on North Korea. The
images and voices in this documentary offer an authentic, life on the ground perspective of the lives
and challenges of the people of North Korea.

                                                                                                                  China
Distribution: Contact the filmmaker.
www.playingfrisbeeinnorthkorea.com

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Day of the Western Sunrise                                 Saturday, March 23, 2019, 3:50pm
Directed by Keith Reimink. 2018. Japan. 75 minutes.
Day of the Western Sunrise is an animated, Japanese language documentary about the crew of the
tuna trawler Daigo Fukuryu Maru, or The Lucky Dragon No. 5. On March 1st, 1954, the fishermen
onboard the Lucky Dragon survived the biggest explosion ever caused by man, the Castle Bravo
thermonuclear test in the Pacific Ocean. The film tells how their lives were forever changed while
showing the long-term impact of this devastating event.
Distributed by Daliborka Films.
www.daliborkafilms.com

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Northeast Asia   Tarinae                 		          		                        Saturday, March 23, 2019 5:15pm
                             Directed by Shiori Okawa. Produced by Minami Fujioka and Shiori Okawa. 2018. Japan. 93 minutes.
                                In-Person Q&A with Shiori Okawa.
                             “Tarinae” is war in Marshallese. 72 years ago, a Japanese soldier who perished in the Marshall
                             Islands left behind a diary he kept every single day until his tragic death. In spring 2016, the soldier’s
                             son visited the Marshall Islands to follow in his father’s last footsteps.
                             Distributed by Shunminsha.
                             www.tarinae.com
Northeast Asia

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Driving With Selvi                 		                     Thursday, March 21, 2019, 12:30pm

                                                                                                          South Asia
Directed by Elisa Paloschi. 2015 (2018 educational release). India. 52 minutes.
   Online Q&A with Elisa Paloschi.
Selvi, like so many girls living within India’s patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at a young age,
only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage. One day in deep despair, she chooses to
escape, going to a highway with the intention of throwing herself under the wheels of a bus. Instead
she gets on the bus, choosing to live… and goes on to become South India’s first female taxi driver.
Over a ten-year journey, we see a remarkable transformation as Selvi finds her voice and defies all
expectations – learning to drive, starting her own taxi company, leading seminars to educate other
women, and much more.
Distributed by Collective Eye Films.
www.collectiveeye.org

Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.                                    Friday, March 22, 2019, 7:45pm
Directed by Steven Loveridge. 2018. Sri Lanka, India, UK, US. 100 minutes.
Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge’s
Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically
acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She
began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka’s armed Tamil resistance, she hid from
the government in the face of a vicious and bloody civil war. When her family fled to the UK, she
became Maya, a precocious and creative immigrant teenager in London. Finally, the world met her
as M.I.A. when she emerged on the global stage. This film provides an unparalleled, intimate access
to the artist in her battles with the music industry and mainstream media as her success and fame
explodes, becoming one of the most recognizable, outspoken and provocative voices in music today.
Distributed by Cinereach (https://cinereach.org)
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www.miadocumentary.com
South Asia   Purdah 					                                                   Friday, March 22, 2019, 8:30am
               Directed by Jeremy Guy. 2018. India. 71 minutes.
               Kaikasha Mirza, a young Indian woman, is allowed to remove her burka for the first time in order to
               pursue her dreams of playing on the Mumbai Senior Women’s Cricket Team. In the days leading up
               to the tryouts, Kaikasha’s parents give her the ultimatum that she will have two years to become
               a professional cricketer or they will arrange her marriage. Once married, her husband would likely
               not allow her to play, thus pinning all of Kaikash’s hopes on the upcoming tryouts for the Mumbai
               team. Kaikasha’s eldest sister, Saba, also has her own dreams of her career and yearns to become a
               model, but she endures harsh criticism for wearing a niqab to interviews. Heena, the youngest sister,
               desires to become a fashion designer or a singer, but poverty may impede her pursuits. All three girls
               must contend with the wishes of their father who does not believe women should work, in addition
South Asia

               to the whispered judgment of those within their community.
               Distributed by Collective Eye Films.
               www.collectiveeye.org

               Lovesick						 Friday, March 22, 2019, 9:50am
               Directed by Ann S. Kim and Priya Giri Desai. 2018. India, US. 74 minutes.
                   Online Q&A with Ann S. Kim.
               In India, how do you find love if you are HIV-positive? Dr. Suniti Solomon, who discovered India’s
               first case of HIV in 1986, and founded India’s premier HIV/AIDS clinic finds a way, by matchmaking
               her HIV-positive patients. Shot over eight years, Lovesick interweaves Dr. Solomon’s personal and
               professional journeys with the lives of two patients: Karthik, a reticent bachelor, and Manu who, like
               many women in India, was infected by her first husband. Told with humor and compassion, Lovesick
               is a surprising and hopeful story about the universal desire for love.
               Distributed by Women Make Movies.
               www.wmm.com

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Taapar (Scorched) 			                                     Saturday, March 23, 2019, 9:45am

                                                                                                       South AsiaChina
Directed by Akshay Gouri. 2018. India. 23 minutes. Online Q&A with Akshay Gouri.
In a predominantly agrarian society, providers of food to millions struggle to eat. Their living
conditions are pathetic, often forcing them to kill themselves. Through the story of Raj Singh, the
marginal peasant, who gave his all to raise a crop, but eventually, didn’t harvest it as it was much
better to abandon the crop than to spend more time and money on harvest, storage and sale; and
the farmer who consumed poison, but, eventually didn’t die - Taapar (Scorched) explores the several
problems that have engulfed farmers and their families for decades now, and raises the question of a
solution.
Distributed by the filmmaker.
Contact: akshaygouri2005@yahoo.co.in

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Remittance 					                                           Thursday, March 21, 2019, 1:30pm
                                                 A film by Patrick Daly & Joel Fendelman. 2016. Philippines, Singapore. 90 minutes.
Southeast Asia
                                                     Online Q&A with Patrick Daly & Joel Fendelman
                                                 Based upon an original script by Patrick Daly and Joel Fendelman, Remittance is a realistic
                                                 portrayal of low-wage migrant workers in Singapore shot at real locations with a cast including
                                                 actual domestic workers. Following Marie, a foreign domestic worker from the Philippines, the
                                                 film immerses us in the joys and hopes of the characters, while facing insurmountable setbacks,
                                                 anxieties, and frustrations. Through the transformations Marie goes through as a woman dealing
                                                 with conflicting obligations and aspirations, viewers better understand a global story of the
                                                 commodification of labor and exportation of mothers from poor third world countries to first world
                                                 nations.
                                                 Distributed by Outcast Films.
                                                 www.outcast-films.com

                                                 Our Land is the Sea / Air Tanahku                          Thursday, March 21, 2019, 3:10pm
                                                 Written and directed by Dr. Kelli Swazey and Matt Colaciello. 2018. Indonesia. 26 minutes.
                                                    Online Q&A with Paul Rausch.
                                                 Our Land is the Sea / Air Tanahku is about three generations of a Bajau family in Wakatobi National
                                                 Park, Indonesia, who are navigating drastic cultural and environmental change. The family grapples
                                                 with how coral reef extinction, economic change, ethnic discrimination and changing practices
                                                 of Islam will mean a different life for the younger generation. This Global Workshop film by Dr.
                                                 Kelli Swazey and Matt Colaciello is part of the Voicing Diversity Project, a collaboration between
                                                 the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies at Gadjah Mada University and the Center
                                                 for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa aimed at creating educational
                                                 resources on diversity in Southeast Asia for educational institutions in the US and Indonesia.
                                                 Distributed by Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i.
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                 IMAGE CREDIT: Matt Colaciello   www.theglobalworkshop.com
LGBTQ Shorts from Southeast Asia                                    Friday, March 22, 2019, 11:15am

                                                                                                                     SoutheastChina
Arranged by the Department of Pacific & Asian Studies, University of Victoria.
   58 minutes (total screening time of all four titles).
   In-person Q&A with organizers Rosalia Engchuan and Richard Fox.
This series of short films offers a cinematic introduction to some of the day-to-day struggles, desires
and aspirations of the LGBTQ community in Southeast Asia. Focused on selections from Indonesia
and the Philippines, these films offer rich ground for a broader discussion of questions at the
intersection of political advocacy, documentary scholarship and critical theory.

                                                                                                                              Asia
•   Contestant #4
    Directed by Jared Joven and Kaj Palanca. 2016. Philippines. 18 minutes.
    When a young boy chances upon an old man watching a film of himself as a youthful crossdresser, it sparks
    an interest in the boy to find out more about the old man’s past. What he ultimately discovers will bring both

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    of them toward a richer understanding of how the weight of life and identity are carried.
•   Dory
    Directed by Beverly Ramos. 2017. Philippines. 20 minutes.
    A 101-year-old transwoman called Dory walks through the streets of Tondo, in Manila, where she works as
    a beautician. She is a proud member of the LGBTQ community, and of a religious group known as Iglesia Ni
    Cristro (INC). Despite facing discrimination on a daily basis, Dory has been open about her sexuality since
    she was young.
•   On Friday Noon
    Directed by Luhki Herwanayogi. 2016. Indonesia. 13 minutes.
    Wina, a transwoman, is looking for a mosque to perform the Friday prayers required of Muslim men. She is
    lost and gets into trouble as she seeks her destination.
•   The Game Kiss
    Directed by Paul Agusta. 2011. Indonesia. 7 minutes.
    Teenagers Peter and Marco are in Marco’s room playing a video game. Then suddenly Marco leans in to kiss
    Peter. This segment details what happens when both boys realize that their longstanding affection for one
    another is reciprocated.
For film inquires, contact Rosalia Engchuan at engchuan@eth.mpg.de                                                   14
Southeast Asia   Ghost Tape #10 				                                         Friday, March 22, 2019, 12:30pm
                 Directed and produced by Sean David Christensen. 2018. Vietnam. 28 minutes.
                    In-person Q&A with Sean David Christensen.
                 Created by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, “Ghost Tape #10” was one of many audio tapes
                 engineered to psychologically intimidate and demoralize the North Vietnamese Army through its
                 depiction of the Buddhist afterlife. Broadcast throughout war zones, these soundtracks consisted
                 of actors portraying grieving family members, or voices from the dead, longing to be reunited with
                 their loved ones. By re-examining this weaponization of belief through the context of modern day
                 Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American religious practice, reactions to this artifact of American
                 propaganda lead to discussions of relationships between the living and the dead, and ask what
                 truths, if any, still echo within this recording.
                 Distributed by the filmmaker.
                 www.seandavidchristensen.com

                 Mother, Daughter, Sister                 			                 Friday, March 22, 2019, 1:10pm
                 Directed by Jeanne Hallacy. Produced by Gregg Butensky. 2018. Burma (Myanmar). 28 minutes.
                    Online Q&A with Gregg Butensky and Jeanne Hallacy.
                 Amae, Thamee, Ama (Mother, Daughter, Sister) gives voice to Kachin and Rohingya women calling
                 for an end to sexual violence in conflict. The film revolves around the stories of four women:
                 Shamima, a volunteer counselor working with survivors of military rape in the Rohingya refugee
                 camp in Bangladesh, Dil Kayas, a teenage survivor and San Lung and Lu Ra, the sister and mother
                 of two Kachin school teachers brutally raped and killed in 2015, allegedly by the Burmese military.
                 Powerful testimonies from survivors, witnesses and activists explore the far-reaching impact of
                 sexual violence and trauma upon communities, woven with stories of courageous women calling for
                 justice and an end to impunity.
                 Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources (www.der.org).
   15            For more information: Kirana Productions (www.facebook.com/kiranaproductions).
                 Contact: jeannemariehallacy@gmail.com
One Dollar Series			                                       Saturday, March 23, 2019, 8:30am
Five Short films from the series produced by Bophana Center. 2016-2017. Cambodia.

                                                                                                       SoutheastChina
   66 minutes (total screening time of all five titles). Online Q&A with Chea Sopheap.
One Dollar is a participatory web documentary taking root in Cambodia, inviting emerging directors
and multimedia journalists to give a voice to individuals living below the poverty line. The mission
of One Dollar filmmakers will be to focus their portraits on the daily lives of men and women who
fight for every dollar they make, every day, and provide them an opportunity to share their personal
experiences with a global audience. This does not mean speaking in their place, but instead offering

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them a “speaking space” that otherwise would not exist.
•   B-Girl Final
    Directed by Phally Ngoeum
    2016. Cambodia. 12 minutes.

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•   Your Home
    Directed by Doeurn Chev and Chanrado Sok.
    2016. Cambodia. 12 minutes.
•   Home Cemetery
    Directed by Phally Ngoeum
    2016. Cambodia. 8 minutes.
•   Choices in Life
    Directed by Phally Ngoeum
    2016. Cambodia. 11 minutes.
•   I Don’t Know Much About ABC
    Directed by Chanrado Sok and Phanith Norm
    2017. Cambodia. 23 minutes.
Distributed by Bophana Center.
www.bophana.org
www.onedollar.bophana.org                                                                              16
AEMS & AAS
             The ASIAN EDUCATIONAL MEDIA SERVICE (AEMS) has been part of the Center for East Asian and Pacific
             Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1998. AEMS promotes the understanding of Asian
             cultures and peoples by assisting educators at all levels, from primary through undergraduate, in finding and using
             multimedia resources for learning and teaching.

             AEMS serves educators nationally and internationally through its website, which hosts an online database of nearly
             6,000 records for multimedia resources. Digital Asia, an online resource from AEMS, offers clips of scholar made
             films of Asia with original curriculum materials developed for college and high school teachers. AEMS also publishes
             a quarterly electronic newsletter, reaching about 2,000 subscribers worldwide that features in-depth reviews by top
             scholars and educators of films about Asia, along with essays and interviews.

             www.aems.illinois.edu

             The ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES (AAS) is a scholarly, non-political, and non-profit professional
             association open to all persons interested in Asia and the study of Asia. With approximately 7,000 members
             worldwide, representing all regions and countries of Asia and all academic disciplines, the AAS is the largest
             organization of its kind.

             Through its publications, online resources, regional conferences, and annual conference, the AAS provides its members
             with a unique and invaluable professional network.

             www.asian-studies.org

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AAS 2019 FILM EXPO
Curator:
Jason Finkelman, Director, Global Arts Performance Initiatives; Event Programming, Asian Educational Media Service

Film Reviewers:
Tim Liao, Professor of Sociology and Professor of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Director,
   Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies

Mara L. Thacker, Assistant Professor, South Asian Studies Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
  Global Popular Culture Librarian, International and Area Studies Library

Matthew S. Winters, Associate Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Programs, Department of Political
  Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, University of Illinois at Urbana-
  Champaign

Angela S. Williams, PhD, Associate Director, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of
  Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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