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CHILDREN OF BLESSING (2005) Writer and director: Jiang Xueqin Music composed and performed by: Chan Wai Fat Paintings and additional music by: The Lahu Girls Producer: Brian Keeley Brief description: An extraordinarily affective and edifying documentary film, recording what life means to 45 Lahu girls who inhabit Yunnan Province on the Sino - Burmese border "golden triangle" area of the Lancang River. The DVD record is a part of research findings in a five-year longitudinal project which is subsidized by the US Ford Foundation and undertaken by Professor Teng Xing from the nationalities research institute at Central University for Nationalities. Related site: http://www.childrenofblessing.com Candles for New Years (1998) - color - 30 min David Plath and Jacquetta Hill For 200 years, groups of Lahu have been migrating from southwestern China into the highlands of Southeast Asia's "Golden Triangle" region. Though they share much with other migrants in the ethnic patchwork of the region, the Lahu maintain a vigorous sense of themselves as a distinct people. New Years is their prime time for celebrating what it means to be Lahu. Candles For New Years is the first visual portrait of Lahu life prepared for English-speaking viewers. Anthropologist Jacquetta Hill has followed for more than a decade the fate of a group of Lahu who cleared the forest and built a community north of Chiang Mai, Thailand. In this film, she describes the Lahu New Year as celebrated by the community: the elaborate preparations to appease the spirits they rely upon to bring them good fortune, the dancing & feasting and the mingling with friends and relatives from sister villages. http://www.der.org/films/candles-for-new-years.html The Music of the Golden Triangle and the Cycles of Life Victoria Vorreite A one-hour documentary film formatted for public television, bears witness to the ancestral songs and ceremonies of a number of the 130 different tribal peoples who inhabit the mountains of the Golden Triangle. Filmed over 3 years in remote hill villages of Laos, Myanmar/Burma, Thailand, and China, the film follows cycles of the earth and passages of life to illustrate a remarkable spectrum of traditional music and rites that infuse their daily and sacred experiences. The film moves from infancy to old age, highlighting ceremonies rarely witnessed: fertility festival, safe birth ceremony, baby naming, courting and marriage, harvest festival, New Year festival, ancestor worship, healing rites, and funerals. (Documentary Film will be completed in 2011) The Music of the Golden Triangle Educational Films are a series of approximately 20 in-depth one-hour documentaries based on individual tribal groups, which capture a single ceremony in its entirety. Traditional peoples of Southeast Asia honor their ancestors and spirits with complex, highly organized rituals that last many hours, often many days. The Educational Films offer the essence of these celebrations in a condensed format. Each will feature extended footage of music, rituals and other aspects of traditional daily village life. http://www.tribalmusicasia.com/films.php Lahu Funnyman [Thai Short Film] This is an award winning Thai short film about a tribal person who takes offense at a racial slur by a comedian on TV and thus becomes determined to get right up there on the TV, where he can faithfully represent his culture and make it look good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD2Ymtu_maY
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