The Japan Foundation Asia Center has carried out "...and Action! Asia Exchange Program for Students in Film Studies," inviting university students majoring in film studies from Japan and Southeast Asian countries since 2015. It aims at fostering mutual understanding and nurturing global views to enrich their creativity.

In 2017, the program was co-organized with the University of the Philippines Film Institute, in cooperation with the Ateneo de Manila University and De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde and held in the Philippines from late February to early March for 13 days. This was the first workshop held outside Japan.

At the workshop, 19 students in film studies from Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia made three short films and received special lectures by film professionals who lead Filipino film industry. The works the participants made were screened at Cine Adarna of the University of the Philippines and reviewed by the other participants and the professionals.

These short films can be watched online at the following website.

URL:http://jfac.jp/en/culture/news/and-action-asia03-170330/

...and Action! Asia #03: Exchange Program for Students in Film Studies

[Dates] Sunday, February 26 - Friday, March 10, 2017

[Venues] University of the Philippines Film Institute, Ateneo de Manila University, and other organizations in Manila, Philippines

[Organized by] The Japan Foundation Asia Center

[Co-organized by] University of the Philippines Film Institute

[Cooperated by] Ateneo de Manila University, De la Salle-College of Saint Benilde

[Supported by] Sony Philippines

[Participating Institutions] Philippines / University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University, De la Salle College of Saint Benilde

Indonesia / Jogja Film Academy

Thailand / Bangkok University

Malaysia / Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Japan / Japan Institute of the Moving Image, Nagoya University of Arts and   Sciences, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Waseda University

[Special Lecturers] Bianca Balbuena (Producer), Carlos Siguion Reyna (Director), Armando Lao (Screenwriter)

[Films Made by Participants] Completed works can be watched online at the following website.

http://jfac.jp/en/culture/news/and-action-asia03-170330/

[About "...and Action! Asia #03: Exchange Program for Students in Film Studies"]

In 2015, the Japan Foundation Asia Center launched this program to build up a platform for active dialogues and exchanges among students in film studies in Japan and other Asian countries. This program aims at deepening their exchange, developing their mutual understanding, and creating possibilities of co-productions.

Each year until 2020, students and instructors gather in Japan or one of Southeast Asian countries to acquire international mindedness and establish networks through this program.

Website: http://jfac.jp/en/culture/dictionary/andactionasia/

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/andActionAsia/

The Japan Foundation Asia Center http://jfac.jp/en/

The Japan Foundation is Japan's principal independent administrative institution dedicated to carrying out cultural exchange initiatives throughout the world. The Asia Center, established in April 2014, is a division within the Foundation that conducts and supports collaborative initiatives with its Asian-primarily ASEAN-counterparts. Through interacting and working together in Japanese-language education, arts and culture, sports, and grassroots and intellectual exchange, the Asia Center pursues to develop the sense of kinship and coexistence as neighboring inhabitants of Asia.