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Subject: H-ASIA: Accepting Applications for Short Documentaries from young
Southeast Asian Filmmakers
> H-ASIA
> November 29, 2012
>
> Accepting Applications for Short Documentaries from young Southeast Asian
> Filmmakers
> ******************************************************************
> From: "Mario Ivan Lopez" <
marioivanlopez@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
>
> Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, CSEAS Life and
> Green Visual Documentary Project.
> Organized under the CSEAS "Toward Sustainable Humanosphere" Program
> and JSPS Asian Core Program.
>
> Dear H-Asia Users,
>
> The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University is now
> accepting short documentaries from independent, young and upcoming
> filmmakers from Southeast Asia which deal with the topic of "care." I
> hope that users can disseminate the information below to prospective
> filmmakers. Thank you!
>
> "Care" in Southeast Asia: Every Day and into the Future
>
> Care is fundamental to human co-existence and mutuality. At the heart
> of this view of care is a relational perspective on human existence.
> Yet care is a western term that has no exact corresponding term in
> Asian languages. We hope that this project will stimulate Southeast
> Asian filmmakers into considering the relevance and meaning of care in
> their own societies.
>
> Over the last 30 years, demographic changes in the region have led to
> a reorganization of social relations. How individuals, families and
> communities cope with the issue of care has become an increasingly
> important issue. Different forms of care exist in different cultural
> and social settings and the young, elderly and disabled all receive
> care and exert a moral claim to it.
>
> The practice of care produces relations between the cared and carers
> in various social contexts. It is a lived practice concerned with the
> physical and psychosocial needs of particular persons. Relationships
> are formed by recognizing that bodies and their care at different
> stages in the human lifecycle form a fundamental foundation for the
> construction of societies. In Southeast Asia, these relationships are
> highly diverse and different care practices vary from country to
> country. In part this arises from unstable policy and institutional
> support.
>
> Even if there is increasing recognition of the rising need for care,
> it is not yet clear how respective governments will plan and envision
> future care. This context has led scholars to research some of the
> demographic changes and their impacts in the region however there is
> little visual testimony to these changes.
>
> CSEAS is accepting proposals from independent, young and upcoming
> filmmakers from Southeast Asia on documentaries which deal with the
> topic of care. We are interested in documentaries that deal with the
> following broad themes such as:
>
> 1. Caring for the disabled, aged, children and the terminally ill
> 2. Non-state based care institutions
> 3. Rural-urban contradictions in care support
> 4. Intergenerational care relationships
> 5. Questioning the meaning of care in localized, country specific settings
>
> Application via online form
> Application will open from 26 November 2012 until 25 January 2013
>
> Requirements
>
> Applicants must be Southeast Asian nationals based in an ASEAN
> country. Documentaries should be no longer than 20 minutes.
>
> Directors should make sure they have permission from any subjects that
> appear in movies. Likewise, translation and subtitling is also the
> responsibility of director(s). A synopsis (no longer than 700 words)
> that describes the story, its background and the purpose of making it
> should accompany the documentary.
>
> Applicants should also submit a C.V. All submitted documentaries will
> be uploaded to a website for public viewing.
>
> When you submit your documentary, please name the file with your own
> name. A committee of the Center will select five successful
> documentaries, and invite the director(s) of each movie to Kyoto,
> Japan for a movie screening and presentation at an international
> forum. The Center will cover the filmmakers' costs of travel to Japan,
> and their stay in Kyoto.
>
> The five documentaries will be archived in our library (with the
> permission of the director(s)) and will be made available on-line on
> the Center's website. Copyright remains with the director of the
> documentary at all times.
>
> The Center will not fund any requests for production funds, the
> purchase of recording equipment or editing software.
>
> Deadline for submission: 25 January 2013
> Finalist announcement: 4 February 2013
>
> About the Project
>
> Southeast Asia is rich in its diversity of ethnic, religious and
> cultural composition. The region has maintained the coexistence of
> such diversity while at the same time achieving economic progress and
> becoming a hub for the flow of people, goods, money and information.
> Yet at present, the region is also confronted with serious issues such
> as the decrease of biodiversity and tropical forests, disasters,
> pandemics, aging population, ethnic and religious conflicts, economic
> differentiation and poverty.
>
> In the face of this, how is coexistence and sustainability possible
> despite the diversity that exists? How can we make public resources
> out of the region's social foundations which are the basis of people's
> everyday lives? And, how can we connect these in a complementary way
> to existing systems of governance towards solving the problems and
> issues mentioned above?
>
> In order to address these questions in the context of Southeast Asian
> context, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies will initiate a three
> year project that explicitly examines the contours of their everyday
> lives through a visual approach. The documentary is one of the most
> potent forms of media to capture the everyday nuances of social life.
> This project aims to use visual forms of expression to complement the
> growing literature that exists on Southeast Asian societies. The above
> framework will offer three separate but interrelated themes that deal
> with "plural co-existence" in the region.
>
> Plural co-existence captures all of the potential diversity that can
> exist within and across different societies. Simultaneously it
> highlights all the dangers that are inherent in the economic,
> political and social systems that people share.
>
> For the first year, we aim to focus on the topic of "care" in
> Southeast Asia. For the second and the third years, we aim to switch
> to other themes that reflect contemporary issues in the region. These
> will include "mobility and negotiation" and the "political cultures of
> resources management."
>
> For more details please contact Mario Lopez
> <marioivanlopez[at]
cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp> and Jafar Suryomenggolo
> <jafar[at]
cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
>
> Mario Lopez Assistant Professor
> Center for Southeast Asian Studies,
> Kyoto University
> 46 Shimoadachi-cho Yoshida, Sakyoku
> Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
> TEL 075-753-7375 FAX 075-753-7392
>
>
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