ASIAN CINEMA RESEARCH LAB
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The ACR Lab aims to make Hong Kong the hub of film studies in Asia and to forge strong alliances with the world’s leading film studies institutions, archives, and film festivals
The ACR Lab aims to make Hong Kong the hub of film studies in Asia and to forge strong alliances with the world’s leading film studies institutions, archives, and film festivals
Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab) is a virtual network of Asian cinema and media researchers, curators, and archivists working in Asia and beyond. ACR Lab aims to forge strong alliances with the world’s leading film studies institutions, archives, and film and media festivals. As a university-industry collaboration entity, ACR Lab brings together film scholars, curators, and archivists from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds who specialize in curating and programming Asian cinemas, scholars from different disciplines and national cinemas, as well as cultural policymakers to advance scholarships for the film industry, culture, and policy studies.
ACR Lab is envisioned as a multifaceted hub for teaching, research, public outreach, and transnational networking of Asian cinema.
ACR Lab will make use of Hong Kong’s geographical competitiveness as a country where East, South, and Southeast Asian cinema are intertwined, and will establish strong partnerships with the world’s leading film institutions, archives, and festivals around the world. ACR Lab serves as a platform for connecting Hong Kong’s film studies scholars and graduate students interested in Asian cinema to scholars, curators, and archivists around the world.
ACR Lab organizes a series of conferences, workshops, and webinars by leading scholars in Asian cinema and media studies, multiple academic conferences, forums, and symposia that provide open forums for film experts, professionals, students, and general audience members who want to share their knowledge, vision, and love of the medium.
To provide a platform for cross-sectoral communication, networking, and sharing the best practice and latest knowledge to benefit film academics, archivists, curators, and programmers
To organize and host impactful academic events with prestigious film institutions in Asia-Pacific, the US, the US, and Europe and also screening events at local cinemas, archives, or a museum that will create greater visibility of Asian cinema.
To foster collaborative research projects with core and overseas members and publish individual journal articles, book chapters, journal special issues, edited books, and monographs.
To promote diversity and equality of cultural expressions in the Asian film industries.
To enhance the teaching of Asian cinema in higher education and nurture the next generation of film scholars, archivists, and curators.
