Transnational Network of Independent Filmmaking in East and Southeast Asia

Initiatives

ACR Lab’s multi-year major research project is tentatively titled “Transnational Networks of Cinema and Digital Media in Asia.” This project explores how cinema and digital media industries located in East, South, and Southeast Asia have interacted and influenced each other. Locating Hong Kong as a ‘contact zone’ of the film industries in Asia, this research project draws attention to the industrial networks of directors, actors, authors, technicians, genres and styles, formats, consumers, languages, and capital across trans/inter-regional contexts. ACR Lab, accordingly, will organize an international conferences and a series of virtual and in-person lectures and talks between 2025 and 2027.