Above and Below the Ground
- Closed captions online
- Open captions in-person
In Myanmar’s first and only country-wide environmental movement, Indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors defend a sacred river from a Chinese-built megadam through protest, prayer, and Karaoke music videos.
Thank you to our screening partner: Asian Arts Initiative
Directors Spotlight
Emily Hong
Director
Emily Hong is a Korean American visual anthropologist and filmmaker based in Philadelphia and Bangkok. Her work seeks to challenge the colonial legacies of anthropology and documentary filmmaking by creating space to honor non-Western ways of knowing and being. Emily is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Visual Studies at Haverford College, a co-founder of Ethnocine and Rhiza Collectives, and a Steering Committee member of the Asian American Documentary Network. Her work builds on fifteen years of facilitation, organizing and campaigning experience with grassroots movements in Asia and the US with a focus on Indigenous rights, environmental and economic justice.
- Year: 2023
- Runtime: 86 minutes
- Country: Myanmar, US, Thailand
- Language: Jinghpaw, Burmese
- Director: Emily Hong
- Animator: Pace Ford
- Cinematographer: Emily Hong, Ding Ding, Mun, Zauring
- Composer: Martin Crane
- Editor: Sophie Brunet, Aacharee Ungsriwong, Loulwa Khoury
- Music: BLAST
- Producer: Maggie Lemere, Ja Nang Tsen, Emily Hong
- Sound Design: Ernst Karel
- Premiere: World