Juree Osiri: National Artist in Performing Arts (Dubber and Actress), 1998
Noppol Gomarachun
– Thai Film Actor / Director
Her First Song: A Film about Na Hyesuk
Soyoung Kim
– Korean Film Critic and Filmologue
Yasmin Ahmad: Malaysian Film Maker Who Transcended Differences between Muslims, Christians, Buddhists and Hindus
Jovian Lee
– Leo Burnett, Malaysia
Asian film has been part of Asian life and culture for a long time. It reflects the Asian root and becomes a historical documentary of living that always stays with people. Making a film has a complicated process that involved with many artists and craftsman from director, actor, screenwriter, cinematographer, art director to technician, grip, gaffer, etc.
To mention Asian woman filmmakers, there are quite some outstanding directors and actors who play major role in Asian film. This session, “Asian Woman in Film”, will bring artist and scholar from Thailand, Korea, and Malaysia to share their experience and study of splendid woman artists who accomplished their art.
(Presented in the 2013 Chulalongkorn Asian Heritage Forum: The Emergence and Heritage of Asian Women Intellectuals, 10-11 September 2013, Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel, Bangkok, organized by Institute of Thai Studies, Institute of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Indian Studies Center, Chulalongkorn University)