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Past Student Films

Beginning in 2007, the Pacific Basin Institute developed a grant program to send a select group of students from Pomona College abroad during the summer months to film documentaries. With support from the generous donations of the Barbara Smith New China Film Funds and the R. Stanton Avery Lectureship Funds, sstudents are selected from a diverse pool of applicants and sent to numerous countries in Asia-Pacific to film a wide variety of subject matter and learn about film production. They subsequently spend a semester editing and creating their project upon returning to Pomona College, with the help of the PBI Archivist, in which they learn about the processes of post-production. With this grant, we aim to generate further interest in the region and its diverse cultures while giving students the opportunity to travel abroad and learn about filmmaking. Any currently enrolled student of the Claremont Colleges may apply for the grant during the spring semester of each year, when a campus-wide announcement will be posted.

You may view our collection of student film projects below:

2012

LaFaye Garth PO’13
“Chinese Settlers and Transmigrants in Ghana”

Ruiyi Zhu PO’14
“Chinese Foodprints in New Zealand”

Corey Fayne PO’15
“Exploring the Gay Life in Contemporary South Korea”

Spencer Heim PO’15
The Blossoming of Japan’s English Education”

2010

Beijing Rock: An East-West Fusion
Sam Trachtman, PO '12 (China)

Civilian Suicides During the Battle of Okinawa
Chien-Wei Chen, PO '11 (Japan)

Ethnic Inequality: From Hawai'i to the Mainland
Samuel Peng, PO '12 (Hawaii)

Long Live the King?
Anderson Wright, PO '12 (Philippines)

I Don't Speak Your Language: Moving Farther Away from Home
Patricia Wang, PO '11 (China)

Island Livity: The Chinese Experience within Jamaica
Cheickna Fofana, PO '12 (Jamaica)

Ngaben: Tradition and Tourism
Nydia Ekasumara, PO '11 (Indonesia)

2009

Dawn in the Valley
MD Xiaoye Ma, PO '11 (China)

Forgotten in Japão
Samuel Holden, PO '12 (Japan)

In the Name of Talibans, We Suffer
Afshin Khan, PO'11 (Pakistan)

Taiwan in Sixty or So Shots
David Reiman, PO '10 (Taiwan)