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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

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

PRESS KIT

A great turnout at Above and Below the Ground’s Freedom Film Festival screening in Malaysia! The screening was followed by a Freedom Talk panel and Q&A, where audience members raised questions about the role of Myanmar’s women and you

We are thrilled to share that Freedom Film Fest in Malaysia will be screening Above and Below the Ground on August 10! The film screening will be followed by a Freedom Talk on “Women & Youth Sowing the Seeds of Change.” featuring our

This past weekend, we celebrated our European premiere in Vienna at the Ethnocineca International Documentary Film Festival! Between two screenings in Brunnenpassage and Kino De France, Director Emily Hong participated in a panel discussion about the

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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.