In the 12th Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival 2017, JAFF collaborated with Centre for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) Universitas Gadjah Mada to present the “Public Lecture” program. This year’s Public Lecture was special as it included research poster presentations regarding cinemas in Asia which was organized by CESASS UGM. The results, 9 presenters were chosen from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines that took part in the event.
This Public Lecture program was conducted from the 4th till the 6th of December 2017, at the 2nd Floor Seminar Room in the UGM’s main library. Consisted of six sessions spread throughout the three-days event, which comprised of the; seminar, discussion, book launching, and research poster presentations. The themes discussed within the forum is in line with this year’s theme “Fluidity” taking the example of “Film and Art Performance”, “Indonesian Film Audience”, “Asia Pacific in the Digital World”, “Distribution and Film Funding”, “ASEAN Identity in the Short Films”, and discussion about the book of Film, Ideology and Military written by Budi Irwanto and Cultural Specificity in Indonesian Film: Unity in Diversity written by David Hanan