As I have taken up a new challenge this year, Southeast Asian Video Festival for Children (SEAVFC), I was supposed to be attending our 4th edition kick-off meeting in Hanoi. I thought then that, although the destination country is not new to me, at least, Hanoi feels fresh to my experience. As serendipity has it,…
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Seoul, our Artistic Souls for Six Reasons
Yeah, I’ve been back to (South) Korea, within five years after I graduate from Busan Asian Film School (AFiS)! This trip, however, sent me/us to Seoul for our advanced arts education course in last December. Out of my sheer curiosity, I had applied for the basic course back in September and was selected to attend…
How Much Do You Know about “Community Arts”?
Although I have heard a lot about this wide concept of “community arts”, little did I know my practices had anything to do with such disciplines. Yet, I applied for Mekong Cultural Hub’s call for “Community Collaboration Experiment” in last April. You got it right: an “experiment”, not a “project”, as I have “implemented in…
CSFF-XII with Five New Challenges
If you’ve followed my blog very closely, you notice Chaktomuk Short Film Festival (CSFF) has always been my annual highlight. For me, its new edition brings about new challenges. In this post, I’m going to share with you with five, which may benefit your event management skills or life experience in general! If you are…
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Another Year with CSFF, Another Round of Humbling Experiences
I kept thinking CSFF X-Edition was unconventional in that we hosted it all online, just owing to COVID19 side-effects. Little did I know recovery from that crisis would affect this year’s festival. The pandemic aside, Xi-Edition was faced with numerous challenges, both in human and financial terms. So what you’re going to read is about…
How the Pandemic Redefines My Overseas Trips!
After two long years of hiatus, Cambodia has finally opened its borders, especially with Thailand, since early this year. My first overseas trip was made for a medical checkup with my father, by a hired taxi from Phnom Penh to Surin, Thailand. My second trip was experienced with my extended family to Nakhorn Rachsima on…