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gyroshrike · 11 months ago

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HEY, A REALLY GOOD FRIEND ASKED ME TO SHARE THIS! We've worked together on a lot of films and projects and now their cousin is trying to fund their own film!

"My name is Rez Redacted, I am a queer transmasc Filipino filmmaker in the Seattle area and have little to no representation of myself in the stories I would watch on the big screen, so for this project, I'm taking it upon myself to give Filipinos like me a chance to see ourselves completely. This includes having a full Filipino main principle cast and attempting to have the best 2010s realism with miniDV footage. Of course, like any broke college kid in this country, I just need help funding this big gay dream."

I'd super love if anyone has any spare dollars to throw at this project. I can 100% vouch for it. It's only got FIVE DAYS LEFT as of February 25th, 2024! If you can't donate, I'd really love a share. Please help support southeast asian filmmakers!

#short film #queer film #southeast asian #southeast asian films #lgbtq #filmmaking #funds #filipino film #filipino #trans #transmasc

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shesnake · 4 months ago

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Julie Estelle in The Night Comes for Us (2018) Hana Malasan in The Shadow Strays (2024)

Directed by Timo Tjahjanto

#filmtag #filmedit #the night comes for us #the shadow strays #timo tjahjanto #julie estelle #hana malasan #film #fm #*#*tncfu #q #usermonstress #usererry #southeast asian cinema #indonesian cinema

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gouldblogger · 2 months ago

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Vertical Ray of the Sun | Mùa hè chiều thẳng đứng director: Trần Anh Hùng cinematography: Mark Lee Ping-Bing

#mygifs #*#film #filmgifs #filmedit #asian cinema #moviegifs #movies #dailyworldcinema #fyeahmovies #vietnam #vietnamese cinema #hanoi #southeast asia #aesthetics #2000s #dailyflicks

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lostinmac · 1 year ago

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Cleaners (2019)

Dir. Glenn Barit

#cleaners #movie #film #philippines #filipino cinema #filipino #Pinoy cinema #Glenn barit #coming of age #coming of age movies #high school #drama #comedy #asian cinema #southeast asia

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celluloidrainbow · 2 years ago

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جوائے لینڈ | JOYLAND (2022) dir. Saim Sadiq The middle-class Rana family, headed by elder patriarch Amanullah, yearns for the birth of a grandson. Amanullah forces his daughter-in-law Mumtaz to quit her job after Haider, his youngest son and her husband, finds work at an erotic dance theater. However, complications arise when Haider becomes infatuated with Biba, the transgender dancer he works for. (link in title)

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southeastasiancinema · 1 year ago

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The Impact of Tony Jaa | Video Essay by Accented Cinema

#tony jaa #ong bak #southeast asian cinema #film #filmtag #Youtube

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maggiecheungs · 2 years ago

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FAVOURITE THAI FILM(S) PER YEAR • 2000

TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER (2000) dir. Wisit Sasanatieng

#tears of the black tiger #fa thalai chon #ฟ้าทะลายโจร #worldcinemaedit #favouritethaifilms #southeast asian cinema #thai movie #ellisgifs #gun tw #flashing tw #myfilmgallery #Stella Malucchi #Chartchai Ngamsan #Arawat Ruangvuth #Passin Reungwoot #love this film so much #queue

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elfilibusterismo · 1 year ago

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SISTER STELLA L. (1984) dir. Mike de Leon

#dailyworldcinema #world cinema #asian cinema #philippine cinema #southeast asian cinema #philippine films #the philippines #sister stella l #mike de leon

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kodachrome-net · 1 year ago

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Children in Phnom Penh, 1991

#cambodia #phnom penh #black and white #original photography #photographers on tumblr #film photography #khmer #cambodians #khmer children #asians #southeast asia #mekong.net #bruce sharp #1991

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good--merits-accumulated · 11 months ago

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can't stop thinking about like: nation building as a motif in the Western. how would that work in a DPS Western AU. does it not perhaps already bear this aspect of the Western because what is DPS about if not a group of white boys trying to build their own nation of freedom and self-expression on the land that belongs to somebody else

#i only have half a thought on this because i can't get into any kind of motifs on 'expanding into the wilderness'#without being like. yeah. the wilderness. you mean the wilderness already inhabited by Native American nations?#in that vein i think a DPS Western /horror/ (and indeed any kind of Western horror) could work very well #being as it would be a series of narratives each crushing over the top of the other only to slip and drown in the blood #and to a much less nefarious extent DPS IS about re-treading the (ideological) ground someone has been over already #but in a way that's not extremely pertinent to what i'm trying to get across here #basically. hm. what i'm saying is that it's very difficult to write in a genre so ensconced in the American Dream #if you a) want to write happy stories. and b) know anything at all about the historical reckoning of said Dream #dps are my favourite rich privileged white boys. or whatever #- signed your very tired resident southeast asian overthinker #ALSO i want to be clear i'm not saying that DPS is about colonisation lol it isn't. there are iffy moments in the film #but this isn't quite one of them #rather it's about... hmgh.. my poc-ness and the difficulty of writing a Western - so historically focused on poc cowboys n such -#about a group of rich white boys from New England #also like parallel motifs whatever. they don't necessarily have to Mean The Same Thing my brain just makes those connections #tristan writes

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jynjackets · 1 year ago

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I finally watched The Creator and holy shit why didn’t any of you tell me it was going to be that beautiful

#this movie was literally made for me #i’m a ml engineer #I research tech comms & censorship in asia and la #vietnamese language vietnamese people!!!! Thaii!! nepalese!! desi!!!#*cries* god i love being asian #Asians banding together to kill colonizing Americans ilysm #gareth edwards forever the movie maker of all time #we are going to gif the shit out of this #once I find out how to #the creator #this is the dream science fiction was made for #science fiction is not for taking from other cultures and putting white westerners in its place even when that's how it's been.#it's for telling a grave and distant future that is not so distant to deliberately expand your view of how the world works #INCLUDING outside the west and the united states #reclaiming the genre to the very culture that inspired it #And by not only showing the overpillaged overcolonized overpoached focus on southeast asia but also all of asia as a united front.#Imperialism is supported by xenophobia and racism so how else do you tell that story without casting nonwhite races & diverse nationalities #the movie said you just fucking can't!#and its apparently not even that hard with the film coming in at $80M to make (blue beetle cost $104M for comparison that's insane)#and to say 'American' so clearly and so many times oh is so *chefs kiss*#there's flaws but idgaf because they are insignificant compared to the story and themes that are so clearly and respectfully carried out #It's completely okay if you didn't know anything about southeast asia or asia in general #but when watching the movie don't you just understand that imperialism war violence are inherent evils #NOT because (a) other cultures are nice to look at and you can borrow it like through clothes dances food songs religion #(b) that we are pretty advanced and such intelligence shouldn't go to waste and perhaps be put to work #or (c) any other rationalized benefit for imperialists to put a price on a people or life #but by the simple fact that people are human and are hurting #and that the elusive concept of a soul and where we go when we die exist for everyone along with fears emotions and meaning surrounding it #it's about how we must protect these differences in meaning /because/ we are all the same

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jr-the-frog · 1 year ago

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Dear Nana (2023)

Directed by Han Nguyen

A deeply personal work that reflects the director’s own childhood memory of living as a queer kid in a small, conservative town in North Central Coast, Vietnam.

My Thoughts: This short film hit really hard. About grief, identity and belonging. It hit me way too hard.

'It makes my mother sad but we don't talk about it.'

#film #short film #indie film #asian #southeast asian #poc #bipoc #stopmotion #animation #trans #transgender #Vimeo

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shesnake · 6 months ago

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Blissfully Yours (2002) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul

#filmtag #filmedit #blissfully yours #apichatpong weerasethakul #film #fm #*#q #worldcinemaedit #southeast asian cinema #lgbt directors #albertserra #useraina

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importantwomensbirthdays · 10 months ago

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Marilou Diaz-Abaya

Marilou Diaz-Abaya was born in 1955 in Quezon City, Philippines. Diaz-Abaya was a director who was part of the Second Golden Age of Philippine Cinema. Her first feature film, Chains, was released in 1980, and she went on to make about 17 more features. Her 1988 film Jose Rizal is considered her masterpiece. Diaz-Abaya won many awards for her work, including the Arts and Culture Prize of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize. She also founded a film school, the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center. In 2022, Diaz-Abaya was posthumously named National Artist for Cinema.

Marilou Diaz-Abaya died in 2012 at the age of 57.

#film #women in film #philippines #filipina #southeast asia #women directors #filipino cinema #cinema #women's history #asian cinema

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lostinmac · 9 months ago

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Falling in Love Like in Movies (2023)

Dir. Yandy Laurens

#falling in love like in movies #yandy laurens #romance #comedy #romcom #Asian cinema #Indonesia #film #cinema #southeast asia #ringgo agus rahman #nirina zubir #alex abbad

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celluloidrainbow · 2 years ago

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妖街皇后 | BUGIS STREET (1995) dir. Yonfan It’s monsoon season in Singapore. Bugis Street, the epicentre of nightlife and unchained libido, is where a band of hedonistic people has taken root at wacky love hotel SinSin. Innocent and naive, the 17-year-old Lian is a maid to a rich family in Malaysia, whose sheltered existence is shattered when she is sent to work at the hotel. Lian soon learns about another side of life once she meets the inhabitants of her new home, a group of friendly trans women who make their living on the streets. (link in title)

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