The Good Cats of Chinese Documentary Bérénice Reynaud September 2015 Documentary in Asia Feature image: Female Directors (Yang Mingming, 2012) “Black cat, white cat – who cares? As long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.” Sichuan pr...
300 million clicks: Under the Dome and the Chinese Documentary Context Dan Edwards September 2015 Documentary in Asia Feature image: Chai Jing in Under the Dome Few documentary makers anywhere the world would dare dream of attracting 300 million viewers – especially ...
Mapping Asian Documentary Film Festivals since 1989: Small Histories and Splendid Connections Ma Ran September 2015 Documentary in Asia Feature image: ticket booth at the 2013 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. This is not an article that seeks to survey the Asian docum...
Wages of Resistance and the Spiritual Problem of Sanrizuka Markus Nornes September 2015 Documentary in Asia We all know the desire to resist the state. Anytime we receive a parking ticket, we feel it stirring in our hearts. Every time we pay taxes on our har...
On the Banning of a Film: Tan Pin Pin’s To Singapore, with Love Olivia Khoo September 2015 Documentary in Asia Publicity image for To Singapore, with Love, taken from Johor Bahru, Malaysia, looking at Singapore from the other side of the straits. Tan Pin Pi...
On Whose Behalf? Ethics in Indian Social Documentary Film and Practice Shweta Kishore September 2015 Documentary in Asia Feature image: Harrison Cudjoe in YCP 1997. “Prison exists only in the mind. Who isn’t in prison? It's only a matter of a larger prison or a smaller ...
Sufi poets, story-telling as performance and non-violence in Indian documentary film Anne Rutherford and Laleen Jayamanne September 2015 Documentary in Asia Anne Rutherford and Laleen Jayamanne interview Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar. Feature image: Still, So Heddan, So Hoddan (Like Here, Like Ther...
