The Roosevelt House Human Rights Program will screen the film Ghost Mountain, which tells the story of a Cambodian refugee who made his way to Connecticut in 1980 after surviving the Killing Fields. This event is sponsored by Network 20/20, the Hunter College Asian American Studies Program and the History Department.

Hosted at the NYU King Juan Carlos Center, the Visions/Panawin Film Series aims to introduce New York University and the Filipino American community in NYC to the rich canon of Philippine cinema. The third and final film featured will be Batang West Side, directed by Lav Diaz.

Hosted by the NYU Center for Media, Culture, and History, author Deirdre Boyle and scholar/filmmaker Jill Godmilow will discuss the book, Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh, which follows the story of award-winning filmmaker Rithy Panh, a survivor of the Cambodian genocide who moved to France.

Laotian film maker Mattie Do, journalist Manyphone Vongphachanh, and Noel Clehane, Global Head of Regulatory & Public Policy at BDO, will discuss current economic struggles and opportunities in Laos. This event is sponsored by Asia Society Switzerland, BDO, a global for-profit advisory firm, and the University of Zurich.

Sulo: The Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU will screen Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros, an independent film that follows young boy Maximo Oliveros as he discovers his sexuality in the Manilla slums. This event is co-sponsored by Cinemalaya, NYU KJCC, and NYSEAN.

Join Sulo: The Philippines Studies Initiative at New York University for a screening of In the Navel of the Sea followed by a talk with Fiel Zabat, the award-winning production designer of major works by Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya. This event is sponsored by GMA Pictures, the NYU King Juan Carlos Center, and NYSEAN.

After the screening of The Greatest Beer Run Ever, join director Peter Farrelly, producer Andrew Muscato, costume designer Bao Tranchi, co-author Chickie Donohue, and Columbia's, Lien-Hang Nguyen, for a panel discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, WEAI, Teachers College, MilVets, and the Center for Veteran Transition and Integration at Columbia University.

Join Mekong NYC, the Ford Foundation, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and NYSEAN for a double-feature screening of Cambodia's pre-war films Mother’s Heart by Yvon Hem and Thavary Meas Bong by Uong Citta. This will be followed by the NYC book launch of Faded Reels: The Art of Four Cambodian Filmmakers 1960-1975 and a Q&A with author Dr. LinDa Saphan and Cambodian film collector Nate Hun. The discussion will be moderated by Sreyneath Poole.

Join Dr Thomas Baudinette, Macquarie University, as he shines the spotlight on the transnational pop culture phenomenon of “Boys Love” (BL) soap operas, and how it has transformed contemporary Thai consumer culture. This event is sponsored by the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and NYSEAN.

Hosted by Cornell University, Kale Bantigue Fajardo, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, will lecture on the different kinds of boats, waters, and queer river-and-seafaring Filipino/a/x figures in contemporary Philippine Cinema. In doing so, Fajardo will reveal the postcolonial and decolonial implications of select films in relation to indigeneity, tourism, neoliberal economics, migration, and the heteropatriarchy.

Join SEACoast for an online screening of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2015 film, Cemetery of Splendor, followed by a discussion with Natalie Ng, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Join the Asia Society to celebrate two Filipino artists and showcase short animated films, Josephine (2016) by Avid Liongoren and Blush (2021) by Joe Mateo.

Organized by the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, this documentary film explores the stories of 21st-century Filipino émigrés who once were state scholars but subsequently followed other opportunities abroad. The movie will be screened virtually via Vimeo (Feb 4-9), and will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker.

Hosted by the NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, join Filipino director Kidlat Tahimi, a key figure of the so-called ‘slow cinema’ movement and an undisputed pioneer of Filipino independent film, for a conversation with Sara Nadal-Melsió, an NYC-based Catalan writer, curator, and teacher.

Padauk: Myanmar Spring is a new documentary directed by Jeanne Hallacy and Rares Michael Ghilezan that takes the viewer to the streets of Myanmar during the heady days following the February 2021 military coup. Origanzied by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at UC Berkeley, join the co-directors and with Nant Ingyin Kyaw Soe, who is featured in the documentary, to learn about the making of the film. The discussion will be moderated by Kenneth Wong.

In this book talk hosted by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Vernadette Gonzalez discusses her book, Empire’s Mistress, which pieces together the life story of Isabel Rosario Cooper, a mixed-race vaudeville and early cinema star in Manila who became infamous for her liaison with General Douglas MacArthur during the height of American colonialism in the Philippines. It tracks the mobilities and relationships generated by the United States’ desire for the Philippines and how colonized subjects, particularly women, turned those to their advantage.

Hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions, Kalyanee Mam will share and speak about her short film, Lost Worlds. The film shows how the dredging of sand in Cambodia feeds the foundations of Singapore's development projects, while altering the social and ecological bases of survival for coastal communities in Cambodia.

Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan for a screening of Lost World, a film that explores the environmental and local community's impact resulted for sand being dredged in Cambodia's mangrove forests to provide sand for Singapore to enlarge its landmass. The screening will be followed by a discussion with film directer, Kalyanee Mam.

How do you conquer the odds stacked against a Filipino-American performer, set designer, composer, or producer even before you've gone to an audition? Listen to our panel of aspiring and established actors, producers, costume and stage designers speak of their respective journeys in the field of entertainment and film.

The Robert E. Brown Center for World Music celebrates I Ketut Gede Asnawa & family with a video premiere of new Balinese music and dance on Saturday, May 1, 2021.

Shadows & Illuminations follows an older Balinese man, Nyoman Kereta, as he struggles with the intrusion of spirits into his consciousness. The film documents his painful history of trauma, loss and poisoning, and draws on his other family member's interpretations of how to understand his struggles and distress. Central questions of how to interpret his experiences, and what role a schizophrenia diagnosis entails are explored.

In this presentation, Alexander Cannon, lecturer in music at the University of Birmingham, examines how “tradition” lives a vibrant life in contemporary Vietnam and suggest that we retire the trite adage that tradition is dying.