Call for Documentaries: 7th Visual Documentary Project (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University)
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University is calling for documentaries for the 7th Visual Documentary Project! We respectfully ask that if anyone has any filmmakers colleagues in Southeast Asia who'd like to participate in this project to forward the information below. Please help us reach out to young aspiring filmmakers in Southeast Asia! Project information is availble in 11 languages.
https://vdp.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/vdp2018/
THEME: Popular Culture and Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia: a region rich in popular cultural traditions. How do popular music, art, literature, theatre, comedy, dance, sport and film, move people in Southeast Asia? What makes them laugh, cry and feel? Inspire us! For 2018, we open up the visual documentary project to documentaries that capture popular cultures across the region.
REQUIREMENTS
1. Applicants must be citizens from Southeast Asia or Japan.
2. Documentaries should be no longer than 30 minutes.
3. Applicants should make sure they have permission from any subjects that appear in the movies.
4. Documentaries should include English subtitles.Translation and subtitling is also the responsibility of applicants.
*Selected documentaries will be screened in their original languages with both Japanese and English subtitles. However, documentaries that are in English will only have Japanese subtitles added and vice versa.
DEADLINE
31sth August 2018
APPLICATION
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Visual Documentary Project (VDP) was set up in 2012 by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS). The aims of the project are to explore and introduce the rich diversity of contemporary Southeast Asia (SEA) through the medium of documentary films and to create bridges between academia, the SEA filmmaking community and civil society. From 2014, the Japan Foundation Asia Center joins this project as co-organizer to help widely promote the richness of Southeast Asian cultures to people in Japan. As of 2016, the project has linked up with numerous film schools in the region to help strengthen the documentary filmmaking network.
CONTACT
Visual Documentary project <vdp@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University is calling for documentaries for the 7th Visual Documentary Project! We respectfully ask that if anyone has any filmmakers colleagues in Southeast Asia who'd like to participate in this project to forward the information below. Please help us reach out to young aspiring filmmakers in Southeast Asia! Project information is availble in 11 languages.
https://vdp.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/vdp2018/
THEME: Popular Culture and Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia: a region rich in popular cultural traditions. How do popular music, art, literature, theatre, comedy, dance, sport and film, move people in Southeast Asia? What makes them laugh, cry and feel? Inspire us! For 2018, we open up the visual documentary project to documentaries that capture popular cultures across the region.
REQUIREMENTS
1. Applicants must be citizens from Southeast Asia or Japan.
2. Documentaries should be no longer than 30 minutes.
3. Applicants should make sure they have permission from any subjects that appear in the movies.
4. Documentaries should include English subtitles.Translation and subtitling is also the responsibility of applicants.
*Selected documentaries will be screened in their original languages with both Japanese and English subtitles. However, documentaries that are in English will only have Japanese subtitles added and vice versa.
DEADLINE
31sth August 2018
APPLICATION
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Visual Documentary Project (VDP) was set up in 2012 by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS). The aims of the project are to explore and introduce the rich diversity of contemporary Southeast Asia (SEA) through the medium of documentary films and to create bridges between academia, the SEA filmmaking community and civil society. From 2014, the Japan Foundation Asia Center joins this project as co-organizer to help widely promote the richness of Southeast Asian cultures to people in Japan. As of 2016, the project has linked up with numerous film schools in the region to help strengthen the documentary filmmaking network.
CONTACT
Visual Documentary project <vdp@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp>