Coming Up for Air
LIN Yen-Chun, WANG Beibei, KOINUMA Kaho, ONUMA Ami | China, Japan, Taiwan | 2024 | 24min
SYNOPSIS
DIRECTOR
LIN Yen-Chun
Born in Taiwan, 1996. Interests in home movie and film archives. Studying film restoration and documentary as a postgraduate student.
WANG Beibei
Born in China, 2002. Majoring in photo photography at Yunnan Art University. Interested in film photography and theory.
KOINUMA Kaho
Born in Japan, 1999. Majored in development economics and gender related issues. Working at a Japanese food-tech startup as a marketer.
ONUMA Ami
Born in Japan, 1999. Majored in cultural studies with a particular interest in feminism. Currently working as a promotion planner at a Japanese advertising agency.
PRODUCER
LI Xin
LI Xin has been lecturing in documentary filmmaking and visual anthropology theory at Yunnan Arts University in China since 2003. He is an experienced filmmaker who made over a dozen ethnographic films. As the co-founder of From Our Eyes, LI Xin trained over 200 local ethnic minority documentary filmmakers in communities in Tibetan and Southwest China.
TEZUKA Yoshiharu
Yoshiharu Tezuka Ph.D (London) is professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Komazawa University in Tokyo. His documentary work includes Over the Threshold(1989), which received Best Film Award from Royal Institute of Anthropology UK, Award of Encouragement from Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
GAO Xing
GAO Xing has been lecturing in school of Ethnology and Sociology at Yunnan University in China since 2022. She is an filmmaker who concentered on the societies and cultures of the Upper Mekong Valley.As a co-superviser for students majoring in visual anthropology, Gao Xing guides them to pay attention to the diet, ritual, and local knowledge of ethnic minorities in southwestern China.
IHARADA Haruka
Independent curator, PhD student at Tokyo University of the Arts. Board member of "Docu-Athan". Collaborates with artists and filmmakers while researching how art can and should be utilized to deal with political and social issues and difficulties in Okinawa and other parts of Asia.