ASIADOC 2021
Creative Documentary Storytelling Workshop
Asiadoc is an intensive creative documentary storytelling workshop born from the collaboration of FFD and Docmonde-France. Held for the duration of 2 weeks, the workshop brings veteran of the documentary film field as mentors.
- Adih Saputra (Indonesia) | Sugar, Honey Honeys
- Adlino Dananjaya (Indonesia) | Making Up
- Elvis (A-Liang) Lu (Taiwan) | ADJU
- Fanny Chotimah (Indonesia) | My Sister Umi Aci
- Maria Danzen Katanyag (Philippines) | Brother, where are you?
- Miguel Lorenzo Peralta (Philippines) | From the Bamboo Stalks
- Nottapon Boonprakob (Kai) (Thailand) | Mountain Of Ashes
- Rahmah Pauzi (Malaysia) | City School
- Sein Lyan Tun (Myanmar) | The Bamboo Family
- Shirin Bhandari (Philippines) | People of the Lake
- Ya-Ting Hsu (Taiwan) | Island of the Winds
- Yi Shan Lo (Taiwan) | After the Snowmelt
Further details please reach us by email at [email protected]
Huang Yin-yu is a Japan-based Taiwanese filmmaker. He began documentary filmmaking in 2010, and founded Moolin Films, Ltd. (Taiwan) & Moolin Production Co., Ltd. (Japan) since 2015. Based in Okinawa, he produces documentaries and participates in international film projects. His works include “After Spring, the Tamaki Family...” (2016) and “Green Jail” (2021), which were selected in Visions du Réel, DMZ Docs, Taipei Film Festival, and received Shindo Kaneto Awards for Producer Award. Huang works as not only a director, but also a producer, distributor, and festival director. He’s one of the “Emerging Producers 2020” of Ji.hlava IDFF as Taiwanese representative, and he’s the festival director of Cinema at Sea IFF.
John is an independent filmmaker, musician, and writer. He has made more than a dozen short films and five features. His work fictionalizes and reworks personal and found documentations of love, family relations, and memory in relation to current events, hearsays, myths, and folklore. He teaches part-time at the Ateneo de Manila University and conducts filmmaking workshops and co-organizes artist talks and screenings in Los Otros, a Manila-based space, film lab, and platform committed to the intersections of film and art, with a focus on process over product. A special focus of his works has been shown at the Viennale, Seoul, Cosquín, and Bangkok. He was also a mentor for ASIADOC 2021.
Laurent is a French director and producer. He graduated from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris, he’s also a fulbright researcher in political science at Columbia (New York) and Berkeley (California) universities. In 1995-96, he spent the last year of the war in Sarajevo as head of the magazine Sarajevo Online, which would publish its Chronicles of Sarajevo. After the conflict, he returned to Bosnia-Herzegovina and devoted himself to reflect on the psychic trace of the war by filming over several seasons the work of mourning undertaken in therapy by the widows of young combatants. "De guerre lasses" is presented in around fifty international festivals and has won several awards, notably by the Peace Film Prize of the Berlin International Film Festival (2001). The second part of a trilogy entitled "A genealogy of anger", the film "Of Men and War" this time accompanies in their intimate journey young American soldiers returned from distant wars bruised in their souls. Presented at Cannes in the Official Selection (2014), "Of Men and War" won among others the VPRO Grand Prize for Best Documentary Feature at IDFA-Amsterdam and the Special Grand Prize of the Golden Gate Jury at the International Film Festival of San Francisco. The film was also nominated for the Best European Documentary Award at the 2014 European Film Academy Awards.
