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.
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.
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
PRESS
PRESS
ABOVE AND BELOW THE GROUND IN THE NEWS
The Los Angeles Post: VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS CELEBRATES 40 EDITION OF FILM FESTIVAL
Haverford college: faculty member’s new film captures myanmar’s first and only country-wide environmental movement
Asian Cinevision: Punk Rock, Activism, and Self-Determination Explored Above and Below the Ground
NHK woRLD JAPAN: FILM MAKERS SPEAK OUT ABOUT MYANMAR
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Meet the Philadelphia filmmakers whose films are showing at BlackStar this year
DEADLINE: Tribeca Film Institute Unveil Scripted And Documentary Projects For Annual All Access Program
VARIETY: Tribeca Film Institute Unveils 41 TFI Network Projects (EXCLUSIVE)
Indiewire: Breaking Film Industry News — Awards, Acquisitions, Festival Buzz, Grants, and More
East West Center: Speaking for the Trees
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
