Maria Tran is an actor, filmmaker and community arts trainer. She a degree in Psychology and is passionate on screen culture amongst the culturally diverse communities in Australia. She made various short films such as Metro Screen grant, A Little Dream, award-winning Happy Dent, and action kung-fu comedy Maximum Choppage. In 2008, she produced...

AAFFN co-chairs Indigo Willing and Amadeo Marquez-Perez posed the following questions to several AAFFN speakers: Why is it important to have Asian Australian participation on or behind the screen and who has been an inspiration to you. What are you working on now / next? Here are their responses. * * * PJ MADAM Peta ...

I feel honoured to be giving this keynote to the very first Asian Australian Film Forum, and I’m looking forward to a weekend of discussion, debate, screenings, and an opportunity to focus on Asian Australian stories told on screen. I’ve been asked over the last few days how I got into television, and whether I ...

Vipoo Srivilasa is a contemporary ceramic sculptor. His artworks are often playful and whimsical, while exploring complex issues of identity, politics and the environment. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, the artist moved to Australia in 1997 where he studied ceramic art at Monash University and the University of Tasmania. In 2008 Aaron Seeto, Director...

Without invitation, Sarah reaches over to pick at my larb gai. When it comes to meals, clothes, and perfume, my friend doesn’t recognise boundaries; she does, however, pay particular attention to the chicken on her fork, unhappy that it has been sliced, not minced. For Sarah, foreign cuisine is a marriage between her two passions: food and...

Late one July morning, Mei Lin stood in the line inside the Harrington’s, the local butchers. Sen, brought along to push the second wheeled grocery cart required for the fortnight grocery run, clutched at her mother’s skirt, peering uncertainly at the whole lamb carcass and row of unplucked chickens hanging just behind the counter. After ...