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3 months in the same community, with 3 different lessons
After completing the “Let’s Document Cambodia” project in 2022, Sunflower Film Organization returned last April to conduct an investigation workshop in Kampong Thom province. Six indigenous youth produced two documentaries, showcasing their skills despite limited resources, while emphasizing the importance of community engagement and local identities.
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Sri Lanka — Three Local Specials
As you have followed my blog (or personal website now down for a while!), half of my posts would be to review the last place or country I traveled. This time around, explore Sri Lanka or Colombo, to be exact, with me through “our” accelerated workshop of Asia Peace Innovators Forum (APIF). Which I attended…
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5 Days in Holland, 5 Experiences to Make Film Programming Whole!
As Let’s Document Cambodia (LDC) has been an integral part of Sunflower Film Organization (SFO), with the current grant call proposed by Movies that Matter Festival (MtM), I am applying for our mobile screening project in 12 indigenous communities, across Cambodia. Since the same festival announced their recruitment of festival programmers from the Global South…
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Manila for “Many” Chances
As I have taken up a new challenge this year, Southeast Asian Video Festival for Children (SEAVFC), I was supposed to be attending our 4th edition kick-off meeting in Hanoi. I thought then that, although the destination country is not new to me, at least, Hanoi feels fresh to my experience. As serendipity has it,…
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Seoul, our Artistic Souls for Six Reasons
Yeah, I’ve been back to (South) Korea, within five years after I graduate from Busan Asian Film School (AFiS)! This trip, however, sent me/us to Seoul for our advanced arts education course in last December. Out of my sheer curiosity, I had applied for the basic course back in September and was selected to attend…
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How Much Do You Know about “Community Arts”?
Although I have heard a lot about this wide concept of “community arts”, little did I know my practices had anything to do with such disciplines. Yet, I applied for Mekong Cultural Hub’s call for “Community Collaboration Experiment” in last April. You got it right: an “experiment”, not a “project”, as I have “implemented in…
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How the Pandemic Redefines My Overseas Trips!
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After two long years of hiatus, Cambodia has finally opened its borders, especially with Thailand, since early this year. My first overseas trip was made for a medical checkup with my father, by a hired taxi from Phnom Penh to Surin, Thailand. My second trip was experienced with my extended family to Nakhorn Rachsima on…
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