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Welcome to the Southeast Asian cinema task force of WikiProject Films!

Contents 1 Scope 2 Participants 3 Conventions 3.1 Article parts 3.2 Images 3.3 External links 4 Tagging and assessment 5 Top articles 5.1 Good articles 5.2 DYK 6 Templates 7 Categories 8 To-do 9 Interproject relations 9.1 Parent projects 9.2 Related projects 10 Resources 10.1 Further reading 10.2 External links 10.3 Annotated bibliography

[edit] Scope

The Southeast Asian cinema task force is a joint task force of WikiProject Films and WikiProject Southeast Asia for the purpose of gathering interested editors in the common purpose of improving Wikipedia coverage of the Southeast Asian cinema and raising the quality of already-existing articles.

Film industries covered include:

• Cinema of Burma
• Cinema of Cambodia
• Cinema of Indonesia
• Cinema of Malaysia
• Cinema of the Philippines
• Cinema of Singapore
• Cinema of Thailand
• Cinema of Vietnam

Southeast Asia also encompasses Brunei, East Timor and Laos, and though those countries do not yet have "cinema of" articles, there are likely to be at least a few films being produced in those places.

Southeast Asian cinema may include not only domestic films, but also films made by Southeast Asian filmmakers outside of the region, films produced or co-produced by Southeast Asian companies, and foreign films shooting within Southeast Asia.

[edit] Participants

Please remember to also add your name to the main list of project members if you are not yet listed there.

1. Badagnani (talk · contribs)
2. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk · contribs)
3. Hildanknight (talk · contribs)
4. Rikker04 (talk · contribs)
5. Warlordjohncarter (talk · contribs)
6. Wisekwai (talk · contribs)

[edit] Conventions

[edit] Article parts

Articles about films from Southeast Asia on English Wikipedia often lack basic details about the plot, the director, screenwriter, cinematographer and other crew, as well as the main actors. This is due to systemic bias, which has resulted in a scarcity of references, English-language and otherwise, about films from Southeast Asian countries, especially older films. A look at some of the existing articles about the region's cinema, though, will point editors in directions where they can find the information. Details are a little more forthcoming if the film has been exhibited at film festivals, and as it works out, these are the films that are most notable anyway.

[edit] Images

On film articles, an image of the original, native-language theatrical poster is most desired. A consensus seems to be emerging that more than one image on film articles is probably too many, so conservatism is the watchword, at least on Stub- and Start-class articles. Once a film article has been more developed, for Good Article class and above, then we can think about adding more images. In short, develop the written content first, and worry about images later.

[edit] External links

At this point, just about anything, in any language, is helpful, but there are limits - fansites and personal blogs for example would be discouraged.

[edit] Tagging and assessment

Southeast Asian cinema task force assessment statistics Southeast Asian cinema articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 1 1 GA 4 1 5 B 2 2 6 1 9 20 Start 1 31 40 79 151 Stub 26 272 138 436 List 1 38 39 Assessed 2 4 67 314 265 652 Total 2 4 67 314 265 652 worklist • log • category

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding |Southeast-task-force=yes to the {{Film}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Southeast Asian cinema task force articles.

[edit] Top articles

[edit] Good articles

I Not Stupid (Singapore)
Singapore Dreaming (Singapore)
Tears of the Black Tiger (Thailand)

[edit] DYK

Article	Date featured on main page
Opera Jawa	January 25, 2008
The Love of Siam	December 18, 2007
The Victim	September 30, 2007
Insee thong	July 30, 2007
The Burnt Theatre	July 21, 2007
The Snake King's Child	July 19, 2007
Rice People	July 18, 2007
S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine	July 18, 2007
Ploy	June 12, 2007
Innocence	April 7, 2007
Out of the Darkness	March 24, 2007
Gunman	March 23, 2007

[edit] Templates

• For main project templates, see the sidebar.
• Userbox: {{insert link here}}

[edit] Categories

• Add things here!

[edit] To-do

• Tagging talk pages is under way.
  • Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam articles are tagged.
  • Anything having to do, with Southeast Asia with a {{Film}} template gets tagged, including film festivals, studios, cinemas, lists, etc.
• Recruit interested editors.
• Collect categories, resource links, and templates.
• Expand the open task listing above.
• Add things here!

[edit] Interproject relations

[edit] Parent projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Films
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Southeast Asia

[edit] Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Burma/Myanmar
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cambodia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Indonesia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Malaysia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Philippines
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Singaporean Arts and Entertainment
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Vietnam

[edit] Resources

[edit] Further reading

• Contemporary Asian Cinema, Anne Tereska Ciecko, editor. Berg, 2006. ISBN 1 84520237 6

[edit] External links

• Criticine.com - Manila-based scholarly journal on Southeast Asian cinema.
• Asian Film Archive - Singapore-based organization founded to preserve the film heritage of Singapore and Asian cinema.

[edit] Annotated bibliography

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