Cinema
The Dutch Film Festival in Thailand
We are pleased to announce the Dutch Film Festival in Thailand, which will take place during November 2012 at three prestigious venues in Bangkok. The selected program consists of prized fiction, documentary and short films from the last ten years.
The Dutch Film Festival in Thailand aims to spread the quality, innovation, diversity and openness of contemporary Dutch film. Our mission is to create in different parts of the world a space for open communication and participation through film.
The festival will take place at Goethe-Institut Thailand (from 5-8 November 2012), 10th World Film festival of Bangkok (during 16-25 November 2012), Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (from 21-23 November 2012).
The audience will also have free access to a symposium on Women and Commodified sexuality and prostitution, after the screening of the Dutch film Meet the Fokkens at BACC, on 23rd November 2012.
We look forward to meeting you all!
COMPLIMENTARY ACTIVITIES:
Symposium on ‘Women and Commodified Sexuality and Prostitution’
Date: 23rd November 2012, at 7.15 pm
Venue: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, at Auditorium room, 5th floor
After the screening of Meet the Fokkens, (Directors: Rob Schroder and Gabrielle Provaas, Netherlands, 2011) the audience will have free access to the symposium with specialists and activists on the theme, Women and Commodified Sexuality and Prostitution.
We aim to create a cross cultural debate with experts on the topic of gender, prostitution and cultural diversity, to foster understanding about these, sometimes still, sensitive topics.
About the Speakers
Dr. Panitee Suksomboon, a lecturer at Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. She is interested in issues on gender, sexuality, prostitution, and marriage migration. She’s conducted a research about Thai women in NL, PhD at Leiden University
Dr. Sirijit Sunanta, from Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University. She has done research on transnational marriages between Thai women and foreign men and is interested in the commodification of intimacy in the globalized world.
Noi Chantawipa Apisuk, women rights and sex workers outstanding activist in Thailand, she’s director of EMPOWER foundation. Over the last two decades more than 30,000 sex workers have studied with Empower. Empower has also educated and trained many visitors and interns from UN bodies, universities, research institutes, government departments, NGOs, journalists and others.
For more information www.dutch-film-fest-in-thailand.com
