Contact

CinemAsia Film Festival 2006 is organised by Stichting Cinema Asia. If you need any additional information, please contact us by e-mail: info@cinemasia.nl

Mailing address
Stichting Cinema Asia
PO Box 51344
1007 EH Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Founded on July 11th 2003, Stichting Cinema Asia is a non-profit foundation which aims to promote Asian culture by organising cultural events. Cinemasia Film Festival is the foundation's second project and this festival will take place once every two years. The third edition of Cinemasia is planned for March / April 2008.

Doris Ng and Petra van Dongen conceived the idea for the festival in May 2003, when the Queer & Asian Film Festival in the Amsterdam arthouse film theater Cavia turned out to be quite a success. Many visitors voiced the need for a general Asian film program and thus Queer & Asian became CinemAsia, to facilitate the screening of Asian films to (Asian) viewers.

The first edition of CinemAsia, held in March 2004, was very well received. CinemAsia’s objective to provide an alternative to the existing availability of Asian films was well met. The visitors were perceptibly pleased, as was confirmed by surveys. In the programming a balance was struck between films for arthouse aficionados and films for the specific target groups, such as Indonesian, gay, young Asian, etc. CinemAsia aims to maintain this balance in future festival editions.