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Streaming service HOOQ seeks filmmakers
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 20/07/2017
» While more and more Asian viewers are tuning in to watch Asian content, many filmmakers in the region are still loathe to enter their local markets, where conservative, broadcast-oriented programming dominates the wavelengths. In Thailand, TV shows centre on the age-old soap opera format, while films are still largely limited to the trinity of horror, comedy and romance, be it from conservative studio execs to stringent cultural and regulatory measures that limit the freedom of creators to push the envelope.
Thailand on the big screen
Life, Published on 19/07/2017
» The Thailand International Film Destination Festival 2017 (TIFDF 2017) is back for its fifth year, featuring films shot in Thailand. The festival begins on Friday and runs until July 25, at Paragon Cineplex.
Respected Southeast Asian history scholar, Michael Vickery, dies
Life, Chris Baker, Published on 07/07/2017
» With the death of Michael Vickery in Battambang, Cambodia last Thursday, Southeast Asian history lost a giant.
Radical Beauty
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 08/06/2017
» Prumsodun Ok has broken many rules. The Khmer-American artist studied classical Cambodian dance -- an art dominated by women. He then founded the first gay dance company in Cambodia, Prumsodun Ok & Natyarasa. He and his company perform Cambodian dance in costumes designed to expose more skin than the traditional ones. They also dance male and female parts.
From Punk to Bard of the Bizarre and Back Again
B Magazine, Published on 28/05/2017
» 'Write what you know" is an axiom familiar to all who have learned the craft through correspondence courses on the subject. And it's generally good advice, if not missing a qualifier: If what you know is irredeemably dull, please keep it to yourself and don't inflict it on an unsuspecting reading public.
The art of prosperity
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 04/05/2017
» Feng shui Master Yun Long Zi's latest painting collection glows in the dark. When asked why he made his paintings luminescent even when the light is off, he said it was his intention to put the universe in his artworks.
A new vision on Siam's enduring symbol
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 26/04/2017
» The elephant and the man, walking down the road to redemption and encountering the wounded and the marginalised, the madmen and the prostitutes. In the film Pop Aye, which will kick off Bangkok Asean Film Festival 2017 this evening (see sidebar), the fine-tusked beast accompanies the lost soul as the duo find their way home from Bangkok to the Northeast.