[Buddha-l] Fwd: [*****] AsiaPacific Films.com - An Asia Pacific Online Film Library

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

You can search by theme and country. Some nice films about Religion and 
Ethics.

erik

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Onderwerp: 	[*****] AsiaPacific Films.com - An Asia Pacific Online Film 
Library
Datum: 	Sun, 9 Jan 2011 09:46:14 +1100
Van: 	Reviews of Internet resources for Asian Studies 
<asia-www-monitor at anu.edu.au>
Aan: 	asia-www-monitor at anu.edu.au



The Asian Studies WWW Monitor:  Jan 2011, Vol. 18, No. 1 (320)
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10 Jan 2011

AsiaPacific Films.com - An Asia Pacific Online Film Library

iFilm Connections Asia&  Pacific, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Supplied note:
"Dear Matthew [...] By now you must have received many warm and
appreciative comments from readers across the globe about your
contribution to our collective knowledge about Asian resources to be
found on the Internet. In honor of your services, I'd like to offer
your readers free access to over 500 culturally and historically
important films made by Asians and Pacific Islanders.
Usually people subscribe for $8.99 a month. However your readers can
stream them for free for two months on "www.AsiaPacificFilms.com" by
using this following login and password:

LOGIN:cioleks-gift at asiapacificfilms.com
PASSWORD: thankyou

You and your users can cancel subscription at anytime.
I hope you will check AsiaPacificFilms.com out by streaming some films
for your own enjoyment [... for instance, you might] enjoy A SONG of
TIBET, directed by the master Chinese filmmaker, Xie Fei.

Here are some other film suggestions:http://www.idaconcpts.com/email/AsiaPacificFilms-January.html
   This link is to an advance copy of a newsletter we are sending out
this Friday [i.e. 8 Jan 2001 - ed.] to subscribers. [...]
Jeannette Paulson Hereniko, President, AsiaPacficiFilms.com

Self-description:
"What are we?
AsiaPacificFilms.com streams culturally and historically significant
films from Asia and the Pacific that entertain, educate and inspire
viewers to think beyond boundaries. With the latest streaming
technology, subscribers have unlimited access to our films in DVD
quality.

Who are we?
We are an experienced team of Asia and Pacific film programmers
working in concert with notable scholars, critics, and curators who
carefully select our films. Our curators and AsiaPacificFilms.com's
president Jeannette Hereniko are members of the Network for the
Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC), a well-respected international
organization. Every year NETPAC awards prizes at major international
film festivals."

Site contents:
* Search;
* Login;
* Explore Film Catalog (Browse By #Theme [All Themes, Aging&
Mortality, Animals, Art&  Music, Communication&  Media, Ecology&  the
Environment, Ethnicity&  Cultural Identity, Family&  Relationships,
Gender&  Sexuality, Globalization&  Modernization, Health&  Disease,
History, Human Rights, Law, Politics&  Government, Mental Health&
Psychology, Philosophy&  Ethics, Religion, Social&  Economic Issues,
War&  Military, Youth&  Coming of Age] , # Genre [All Genres, Action,
Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Drama, Experimental,
Experimental, Fantasy, Horror, Mokumentary, Romance, Sci-Fi, Short,
Thriller, Suspense, Youth, Children], # Filmmaker [there were 402
films listed in Jan 2001], # Country [All countries, Australia, China,
Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Kyrgyzstan,
Lebanon, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore,
South Korea, South Korea/Japan, South Korea/Kazakhstan, South Korea/
Singapore, South Korea/Thailand, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, United
States, Vietnam]);
* About Us;
* Featured Film Festival;
* Sign Up Benefits;
* Contact Us;
* Copyright Information;
* Privacy Policy;
* Legal Statement.

[A very fine and rich site indeed - ed.]

URLhttp://www.AsiaPacificFilms.com

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the
time of this abstract]

Link reported by: Jeannette Hereniko (jhereniko--at--
asiapacificfilms.com)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]:
Documents / Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO -
other]:
Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]:
[Essential, regardless of presence/absence of this most generous gift
to t.m. ciolek and other readers of the MONITOR]
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- regards -

Dr T. Matthew Ciolek   tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au
Head, Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS,
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific,
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
ph +61 (02) 6125 3124 fax: +61 (02) 62571893
also, Asia Pacific Research Online atwww.ciolek.com

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