Green Bamboo

Lao Filmmaker Mattie Do's new film: The Long Walk / Episode 004

"The Long Walk" is the new film by Lao filmmaker Mattie Do. It’s part ghost story, part thriller and set in Southeast Asia. Do shares what it was like growing up an an Asian in the United States and how she channelled her childhood into her previous films, "Chanthaly" and "Dearest Sister". "The Long Walk" opens in US theaters on February 18th and go digital on March 1st.

Kirk and Karen Endicott / Malaysia's Orang Asli (original) people / Episode 003

The American anthropologists Kirk and Karen Endicott share how living with Malaysian’s indigenous people, the Batek, taught them to be better parents and how Malaysia’s government took away the Batek’s ancestral rainforest-homeland. Since the 1970s, Kirk & Karen Endicott have worked to understand the Orang Asli, the original people of the Thai-Malaysian peninsula. The American anthropologists first visited one Orang Asli tribe, a group of Batek people, in the 1970s after traveling upriver deep into the rainforest. Since then, the Batek’s homeland has been taken away from them and the trees chopped down, replaced mainly by palm oil plantations. By living as part of the Batek community, the Endicotts learned to be better parents and that the Batek’s lifestyle has many advantages over “modern” life in big cities. Dr. Kirk Endicott is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth University. They jointly authored a book called “The headman was a woman: the gender egalitarian Batek of Malaysia” with stories about the people they met and details about their field research.

Michael C Hawkins / Philippines Moro people / Episode 002

100 years ago, a group of Moro people from today’s southern Philippines were put on display in the United States as part of a live “cultural” show. Dr. Michael C Hawkins, Associate Professor of History at Creighton University (USA), tells the story of why they went and why - after they had lived there for many month - they didn't want to leave.

Singaporean Comedian Sam See / Episode 001

Singaporean comedian Sam See has a new special out called “Coming Out Loud”. We’ll discuss what it’s like being a gay comedian in an anti-gay city and also how he’s had to adapt his comedy routine during COVID. Later in the show, movie and TV critic Kimberly Lim reviews the Netflix series Trese. It’s an animated adventure series based on the graphic novel of the same name set in Manila in the Philippines.