Documentaries for our activities
Music and Films from Mekong-ASEAN Environmental Week (MAEW)2021
Friday 24 September 14.00-14,30
MUSIC - “Voice from people” - Thailand’s Northeastern style song Made for MAEW2021 with the local instrument "Khaen" by Goo-khaen Band, Khon Kaen Province
Watch the video:
16.30-18.00Documentary - “Guardians of the River” on people of Klamath River and the dam Remover project in California, USA (2020) And; Discussion by Bruce Shoemaker, Klamath Project Liaison, International Rivers
Watch the film:
https://youtu.be/e5lcP_9ateE
16.30-18.00 (Bangkok time)
Organize by: MAEW/Thai Public Broadcast Service (Thai PBS)
A short discussion with Niparat Unsaen, A young farmer from Mahasarakham Province, Northeastern Thailand from a documentary series “Life redesign” by Thai Public Broadcast Service (Thai PBS)
Moderate by Walailak Chomnoonsung, Thai PBS
With the documentary series - “Life redesign amid COVID-19 by the Isan (Northeastern Thailand)’s young generation" (2020)
Watch the video (Thai language only)
11.30 -12.00 Documentary - Thai Investment in Myanmar: A Closer Look (2017) by EarthRights International
16.30-18.00 Documentary film – “Vein” An awards winning documentary produced by 4 filmmakers from Myanmar (2016) by Human Dignity Film Institute
Watch the documentary https://youtu.be/IdmpB1wD_R8
Documentary film - ASLI The Origins:Is the Orang Asli’s development in society progress or oppression towards their community? (2017) and; The film introduction by Zarissa Marican, the film producer from Malaysia.
Moderate by Puttita Dokput, GreenNews, Thailand
Watch the discussion and the film https://fb.watch/90yt_f1XeQ/
Watch the film https://youtu.be/ExbbOFfsjOc
16.00-18.00 Documentary - “Mekong is not the same” (2019) by Thai Public Broadcast Service (Thai PBS)
Watch the video (In Thai language only)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F_SBm0P_cWgSucxrcMYZGLtn0VTo-er-/view?usp=sharing
17.00-18.00 Mekong documentary series - “Mekong Season, People Season” (2017) by Thai Public Broadcast Service (Thai PBS) and; A discussion with Khampin Aksorn, a film producer
Watch the interview and the documentary (Thai language only)
More videos
Dialogue Forums with Bangkok Tribune News Agency - 2020
14 May - EVENT: DIALOGUE FORUM 1: DIGITAL DISRUPTION AND A PUSH FOR SOUND PUBLIC POLICIES
Live: https://youtu.be/4yMf_0PKm_E
18 June - DIALOGUE FORUM 2: OUR WILD, OUR CLIMATE: THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN POST COVID-19
Live: https://fb.watch/31sLMRzNzo/
30 June - DIALOGUE FORUM 3: OUR WILD, OUR CLIMATE: ENDING WILDLIFE TRADE AND HABITAT EXPLOITATION IN POST COVID-19
Live: https://fb.watch/31sGPzCb58/
29 July - DIALOGUE FORUM 4: THE MEKONG RUNS DRY?: GOVERNANCE IN TRANSITION
Live: https://fb.watch/31sDH86Wef/
26 August - DIALOGUE FORUM 5: SURGE IN PLASTIC WASTE DURING COVID-19 AND THE ROADMAP TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE PLASTIC WASTE MANAGEMENT
Live: https://fb.watch/31sAeDd-5y/
30 September DIALOGUE FORUM 6 (IN THAI): A BAN ON TOXIC FARM CHEMICALS: THAILAND’S LONG ROAD TO FOOD SAFETY AND THE “(SAFE) KITCHEN OF THE WORLD”
Live:https://fb.watch/31svheMDiV/
29 October - DIALOGUE FORUM 7: THAILAND’S HAZARDOUS WASTE SITUATION AND EFFORTS TO CLEAR THE “WORLD’S TRASH BIN”
Live: https://fb.watch/31ssN-w63O/
24 November - DIALOGUE FORUM 8: THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES UNDER THAILAND’S CONSTITUTIONS: PROGRESS AND SETBACKS
LIve: https://fb.watch/31spuuJNYl/
22 December - YEAR-END DIALOGUE FORUM | GREEN RECOVERY: MOVING BEYOND THE PANDEMIC
LIve: https://fb.watch/31slks6wGd/
Videos from Mekong-ASEAN Environmental Week 2020
25 September 2020
Panel “The Look Back on Environment, Democracy, and Struggling livelihoods in the Mekong and Southeast Asia region”
** Watch the video of this panel here: https://www.facebook.com/2020MAEW/videos/335991897722558
Presentations
- Environmental governance, corporate interests and democracy in Southeast Asia by Neth Dano - Co-executive Director, etc GROUP, The Philippines
- Good politics that can solve farmers’ problems: experiences from Cambodia by Dr. Yang Saing Koma - Founder of the Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC), a 2012 recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award and the Chairman of Cambodia’s Grassroot Democratic Party (GDP)
Panel Discussion “In the eyes of Environmental journalists”
**Watch the video of this panel here:
https://www.facebook.com/2020MAEW/videos/392473045130386
Panel
“Meet the creators of the photo exhibitions and films”
- On the work of a Photo
Exhibition “Cost of Lives, Cost of Living” on Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy Dam collapse by Visarut Saenkham
- photojournalist, Realframe Group
- On the production of a short film “The wish of Sin” Award-wining short film from the 1st Mekong River International Film festival and Art of Rivers 2018, Thailand by Thiwthat Narasaen, Director
- On the production of a documentary film “Hoo Sahong, a Fish Corridor Threatened by Dam Development by Yuka Kiguchi - Director, Mekong Watch
**Watch the video of this panel here:
https://www.facebook.com/2020MAEW/videos/392473045130386
Films screening “The Mekong’s documentary”
16.30 - 17.30
“Hoo Sahong, a Fish Corridor Threatened by Dam Development”
by Mekong Watch
“The wish of Sin” by Khon Khan Film
“Migration from Tonle Sap Lake” by Austin Meyer, a video and photojournalist
“Tonle Sap: On the day that fishes had disappeared” by Pale Blue Dot Group screened by Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS)
26 September 2020
Panel “From Foreign Direct Investment to large scale destructive projects: what and whom we are facing: Part 1”
- The ongoing struggle on land, forest, and livelihood in Southeast Asia
by Yaya Nur Hidayati, Chairperson, Walhi (Friends of the Earth Indonesia)
- The ongoing struggle on land, forest, and livelihood in Southeast Asia by Zhang Jingjing - Director, The Center for Transnational Environmental Accountability (CTEA), and lecturer in law at the University of Maryland School of Law
** Watch the video of this panel here: https://www.facebook.com/2020MAEW/videos/345022663511109
Panel “From Foreign Direct Investment to large scale destructive projects: what and whom we are facing: Part 2”
- Myitsone Dam campaign and the concerns over Chinese Investment in Myanmar by Myint Zaw, Journalist, and activist and 2015 recipient of Goldman Environment Prize for Asia
**Watch the video of this panel here:
https://www.facebook.com/2020MAEW/videos/679792549578455
Panel “On Luang Prabang”
**Watch the video of this panel here: https://www.facebook.com/2020MAEW/videos/417024012618169
27 September 2020 -
Panel "The way out: Local voices from the Mekong and Southeast Asia countries”
- "Life after the land grabbing and cross-border investment situation in Cambodia by Hoy Mai - O Bat Muan Village, Oddor Meanchey Province and Teng Kao - Sre Ambel community, Koh Kong Province, Cambodia
- The struggle of Orang Asli people to protect their land and forest by Shaq Koyok, Malaysia’s Artist and Orang Asli Indigenous activist
- The old wound and the new pain of Road Link to Dawei by Saw Keh doh: Thabyu Chaung villager, Dawei, Myanmar
- Resources, livelihood and sustainable agriculture for Laos people by Phouvong Phetphayvanh - Laos farmer and filmmaker
**Watch the video of this panel here: https://www.facebook.com/2020MAEW/videos/253331799332839
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29 July 2020 - The Mekong runs dry? Governance in transition: A close look at current rules and geopolitics at play
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=582566982434548
22 July 2020 The live-stream of the public Forum "Living in the Ruins": Two years anniversary of Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy Dam collapsed
2019
16 November 2019 - The Press Meeting/Conference "From the Regional Economic Integration to Special Economic Zone: 3 Decades of Land Dispossession in Mekong Region"
https://fb.watch/2YTdg9_ILF/
23 July 2019 - Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy: The search for Accountability, one year after the Laos dam collapse
19 June 2019 - The public forum “Environment and livelihood Impacts of ASEAN Economic Integration: The peoples’ stories”
Panel "Mekong dams and cross-border impacts"
Panel "On Infrastructure, Special Economic Zone and economic linkageW
Panel "On ASEAN’s corporate, food system and climate change"
Panel "Reflection and discussion" (15 minutes each and open forum)
18 June 2019 – Video from the press event and photos exhibit on “The ASEAN We Want: Testimony from local Communities on Ecological Disastrous”
14 June 2019 – Video on the Public forum/discussion on “Business, Human Rights and peoples’ justice: the case of Xe Pian Xe Namnoy in Laos”
https://fb.watch/2Wxk9-Rusw/
The short video "After dam collapsed, Xepian Xenamnoy Dam, Laos" by Mekong Watch
2018
November 2018 - The live-stream of the workshop “Hydropower dams: Role and Responsibility of governments, investors and regional platform in ASEAN”, 3 November 2018, ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum (ACSC/APF) in Singapore
October 2018 - The live-stream from the Panel discussion and forum “Dam, disaster and Ecological justice: hydropower legacies”, 18 October 2018, Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand
October 2018 - Video (some part) of the presentation in the public forum “The solution for Environmental problems in Northeastern Thailand: In the linkage of the upcoming election”, Organised by the Isaan Record at Ubon Ratchathani Province 11 October 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6eXQIEpwpY
October 2018 - Media coverage on the public Forum “Flood beyond Nature: Mekong dams’ water, rights, responsibility, and the future together”, 2 October 2018, Bungkarn Province, Thailand
Thai PBS https://fb.watch/31mIUTfERS/
Thai PBS (Television) https://fb.watch/2_v1AMD311/
Radio Free Asia Laos https://fb.watch/2_pZ1T9nns/
Video “Flood beyond Nature” https://fb.watch/2ZbOKlOQAv/
September 2018 - Video on the “The collapse of Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy Dam in Laos: Voices from the ground and Korea”, 19 September 2018, Seoul, Korea”
Video “The situation of Xe Pian Xe Namnoy dam collapse”
September 2018 - The Gathering and press conference in front of SK Engineering and Construction Company, the lead company for Xe Pian Xe Namnoy dam construction, September 19, 2018
August 2018 - Video on the Public Forum “The mysteries of the hydropower plant business in Laos: Foreign companies, official development aid, energy plans and the collapse of Xe Pien-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam”, 9 August 2018, Student Christian Center, Bangkok
Morning session https://fb.watch/2-EY-jv0qB/
Afternoon session https://fb.watch/2-EM_KQb6w/
August 2018 - The Video on hydropower dams in Lao PDR and the establishment of LDIM: https://fb.watch/2-EsJE3SHp/
2016
Public Forum “The mysteries of the hydropower plant business in Laos,9 August 2018
(Morning session) https://fb.watch/31k8MdBeTJ/
(Afternoon session) https://fb.watch/31kc8FUJNG/
Project SEVANA's Public Forum on "Cross-border investments and forced Migration in ASEAN: The relation of Thailand’s sugar industry to Cambodian Migrant labors in Thailand", 14 July 2016 at Student Christian Center, Bangkok
- Project SEVANA's short film “We ran away without anything”
- Presentation "The regional’s burning situation on migrant worker and recommendations from Mekong migrant Network" by Ms. Reiko Harima, Regional Coordinator, Mekong Migrant Network
- Presentation "Importance of the reunion among the divided families and community members in Cambodian people’s perspectives" by Mrs. Hoy Mai, village person from O’Bat Muan Village, Oddor Meanchey Province
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq0q_BpZzr0
- How land importance to Cambodia people – Mr. Teng Kao, Representative from Koh Kong community
- The overall atmosphere and quotes from the forum
https://youtu.be/ia2bWDZcovQ
