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ABOVE AND BELOW THE GROUND


Above and Below the Ground is Director Emily Hong's first feature documentary. In Myanmar’s first and only country-wide environmental movement, Indigenous punk rock pastors and women activists protect a sacred river from a Chinese-built megadam through protest, prayer, and Karaoke music videos.

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ABOVE AND BELOW THE GROUND


Above and Below the Ground is Director Emily Hong's first feature documentary. In Myanmar’s first and only country-wide environmental movement, Indigenous punk rock pastors and women activists protect a sacred river from a Chinese-built megadam through protest, prayer, and Karaoke music videos.

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TEAM


Above and Below the Ground is produced by an Asian women-led team of filmmakers

TEAM


Above and Below the Ground is produced by an Asian women-led team of filmmakers


ADDITIONAL CREDITS

A PRODUCTION OF Rhiza Collective

IN ASSOCIATION WITH Ethnocine Collective

Cinematography

Ding Ding

Mun

Zauring

Original Score

Martin Crane

Featuring Music By 

BLAST

Sound Design & Re-recording Mix

Ernst Karel


Storyboard Artist, Lead Animator & Title Designer

Pace Ford

Archival Researcher

Nu Nu Lusan Nhkum

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ABOVE AND BELOW THE GROUND IN THE NEWS



Above and Below the Ground Still | River March Protesting the Myitsone Dam in Myanmar's First Country-Wide Environmental Movement

THIS FILM WAS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE SUPPORT OF

Bertha Foundation

Cornell University’s David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement

Doc Society Climate Story Fund

Haverford College’s Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Visual Culture, Arts and

Media & Office of the Provost

National Science Foundation

Tribeca Film Institute

Wenner Gren Foundation

From Doc Society Climate Story Fund:

Megha Agrawal Sood

Shanida Scotland

Julian Etienne

In-kind Support

Brown Girls Doc Mafia

Center for Asian American Media

The Gotham Film & Media Institute



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