Southeast Asian cinema

Southeast Asian cinema is the film industry and films produced in, or by natives of Southeast Asia. It includes any films produced in Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The majority of the films made in this region came from the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia where its filmmaking industries in these countries are already well-established with film directors such as Lino Brocka, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Joko Anwar are well-known outside of the region. Notable production studios in Southeast Asia include Star Cinema, TBA Studios and Reality Entertainment in the Philippines, GDH 559 and Sahamongkol Film International in Thailand, Rapi Films in Indonesia, Encore Films in Singapore, and Studio 68 in Vietnam [1]

Southeast Asian cinema is a sub-section of continental Asian cinema, which in turn comes under the umbrella term of World cinema, a term used in some anglophone countries to describe any foreign language films.

The Far East as a cultural block includes East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.

Key figures edit

Cambodia edit

Indonesia edit

Laos edit

Malaysia edit

Myanmar edit

  • Min Htin Ko Ko GyiBurmese film director and founder of the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival. (Beyond the Dream and The Last Poem)
  • Kyi Soe Tun – Myanmar's most prominent director. His films include Upstream and Blood.

Philippines edit

Singapore edit

Thailand edit

Vietnam edit

See also edit

Further reading edit

  • Contemporary Asian Cinema, Anne Tereska Ciecko, editor. Berg, 2006. ISBN 1-84520-237-6
  • Southeast Asian Independent Cinema, Tilman Baumgärtel, editor. Hong Kong University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-988-8083-61-9

References edit

  1. ^ "Studio 68".
  2. ^ "Anysay Keola". www.locarnofestival.ch. Retrieved 2020-04-14.

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