SEAxSEA: Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival

The Southeast Asia Center (SEAC) at the University of Washington in Seattle promotes and sustains the study of Southeast Asia and encourages understanding of Southeast Asia in the Pacific Northwest and the nation. We pursue this mission by offering degree programs, language study, and undergraduate and graduate-level coursework in various disciplines that focus on Southeast Asia. The Southeast Asia Center’s interdisciplinary academic programs include an MA in Southeast Asian Studies and a BA in Asia Studies with a Southeast Asia Concentration. The Center also supports PhD and professional degrees involving area concentrations and research in Southeast Asia.

The Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival is part of our mission to actively organize Southeast Asia-related programs. We aim to feature films that explore Southeast Asia and its diasporas in their diversity, emphasizing underrepresented communities and youth-produced visions of the past, present, and future.

With many consequential global and local events happening in the region within the past year, this year, we are especially interested in films that depict the interruptions our communities are experiencing, as well as continuities they have managed to maintain. We hope this theme captures contemporary issues we face, such as (but not limited to):

- The COVID-19 Pandemic

- The many forms of violence our communities are facing

- Cultural preservation

- Resilience and Resistance

This year, we are making it online, with films to be screened from May 10 to June 4, 2021.

Applications are due by March 16, 2022. Click here for more information.