The Center for Southeast Asia and its Diasporas recently caught up with Koji Minami, the director and editor of “Made in Cambodia,” a documentary detailing contemporary art and artists in Cambodia since the 1970s. Minami will be visiting the University of Washington campus this Friday, Sept. 6 for a screening and Q&A of the documentary. 1.

This week, our MA student Adrian Alarilla writes about the film festival he’s organizing with the Center, The SEAxSEA Film Festival, that explores Southeast Asia in its diversity, emphasizing underrepresented communities and youth-produced visions of the past, present, and future.   “It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally

This week our MA student Adrian Alarilla tells us about the project he has been working on that you can see this June. The Diwa Filipino Film Showcase is a growing community film festival in Seattle that celebrates the Filipino Spirit wherever it resides, by exhibiting independent films from the Philippine islands and beyond. For

This week we are featuring an article written by History PhD student and SEAC affiliate Lin Hongxuan. On 23 and 24 March 2017, the University of Washington Southeast Asia Center organized and hosted a graduate student conference, entitled “The Palimpsestic Past and Present of Southeast Asia: Rewriting Lives Beyond Boundaries.” The conference theme was formulated

This week we are featuring an article by our MA student Adrian Alarilla to get you excited about the upcoming Seattle Asian American Film Festival. Growing up in the Philippines, I consumed a lot of local media that oftentimes featured people who looked like me, a fact I took for granted until I migrated to

This week our MA student Adrian Alarilla recaps Gerald Sim’s lecture on Singapore’s cartographic cinema last week. Film Studies professor Gerald Sim presented his paper, “Singapore’s Cartographic Cinema,” on December 8, 2016 at the UW Seattle campus. His insightful and enlightening talk was well-attended by students from the Southeast Asia Center, who co-presented it, as

This week we are featuring one of our first-year students in the MA program in Southeast Asia Studies, Adrian Alarilla.  Could you tell me about yourself? How did you become interested in studying Southeast Asia? I grew up in Metro Manila. I was working on my BA in Film and Audiovisual Communication at the University of