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Documentary Arts Asia (เมืองเชียงใหม่, ไทย) - รีวิว - ThailandAgoda.com
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Documentary Arts Asia is perched on a picturesque hilltop overlooking 97/3 Soi Khai Muk 4 Off Hang Dong Road, 50000, Thailand
As this wasn’t in Lonely Planet or Rough Guides, I just found it suddenly while searching for things to do in my area south of the Pratu Chiang Mai gate and following the big red boards. While I’m not generally a movie person, I attended almost every single Monday Asia story film and Thursday documentary film night between October 2013 and March 2014! The best movies I’ve ever seen in my life here! The films here are very high quality and educational, in various languages, but all with English subtitles. They mostly have to do with human rights issues worldwide. They are attended by not only tourists, but also the expat community. I learnt so much from the movies here! I also really enjoyed the free popcorn! In addition, they have a great library with many large photo books and DVD’s, and you can become a member. They also do photo exhibitions…usually a new photo exhibition every 2 weeks. There’s a fun opening party for each new exhibition with the photographer present and tasty food. The founder and director, Ryan, is a remarkable person from California who teaches photography at Chiang Mai University and is involved in human rights work in Myanmar/Burma, teaching members of minority ethnic communities to make documentaries. They have a great internship and grant-making programme. They conduct various workshops in all aspects of video and photography. They are now moving to their great new building, which they have built themselves through volunteer labour and sharing with Burma Study center. Almost 100% perfect; my only suggestion would be that it’s very much oriented toward the younger generation and that they should try to appeal a bit more to people 30 and older as well. Also, they could make their volunteer recruitment process more organised and do a better job of answering their emails. They have a useful online newsletter you can sign up for to get updated, though.
I met Ryan last year and I must say that DAA is an amazing organization very active in Thailand. They made a great job to organize the month of photography in Chiang Mai with such a lot of exibitions, workshops, movies… Here at DAA you can meet famous artists but also very nice common people sharing the love for visual arts. Thanks Ryan for all this.
The volunteers who run this place are wonderful! There’s always lots of workshops and events going on – definitely worth check out for more than just a gallery.
A very well informed library of documentaries and we definitely loved the free day projections. A must see in Chiang Mai.
Heard great things about this place and when I found it, a nice young lady who was busy packing up there said it was being relocated in the old city – check the internet site. This I have done and nothing seem’s to have been updated since mid April. No mention of a new venue or what’s going on. Let’s hope they get it together!
Building its new location on the Pun Pun Airport Plaza compound, DAA is a great org with cool and dedicated volunteers trying to make a better world.
So I went here today…NOT! I tried at least but because their website and google show this place being some place they clearly are not I was just wandering up and down this street with my girlfriend for 30 minutes cursing to myself under my breath. You figure updating your status on the internet might be the first thing you do? Maybe they sent a guy out in a truck with a megaphone to alert people that they closed the location???
This is as down home as you can get with all of the amazing movie selections available in this cozy theatre next to the newest Pun Pun organic food restaurant. Go have some amazing food at Pun Pun and then on to the the Monday night movie right next door.
To find this place you can enter these coordinates into google maps: 18.765243528304,98.976012468338This place is the same place as “Tea tree cafe”. On Thursdays Documentary Arts Asia has a screening there. Look for the sign that says “tea tree cafe” and then once you go past the fence- go to the building on the right. On a regular day you can get good food and look through a lot of art books. On the documentary nights- the food situation is inconsistent. Some nights the kitchen is closed, only beer and wine are available. Some nights there are food options but not smoothies, some nights there are only two options to choose from. I recommend eating before because you can never predict if they serve food or not. As for the documentaries- they are hit or miss in my opinion. I’m not sure how they are selected. There have been interesting themes like childhood, or documentaries dealing with Myanmar. There was a bad amateur documentary about the New York Times. It’s a matter of opinion (though almost no one came to the New York Times documentary so I guess it wasn’t only my opinion).The schedule of screenings is also inconsistent- sometimes they have one every Thursday- other times there’s nothing for a few weeks. Check the Facebook to see when the events are. Overall- a nice idea (I love free, public screenings), but the execution is somewhat sloppy. The location is difficult to find and the food situation is weird- like they change their minds each week on if this is an event that serves food or not. The organization seems a bit disorganized. Regardless – I’ve enjoyed watching some of the documentaries. Occasionally there’s a discussion afterwards (also hit or miss, but all public discussions will be hit or miss). Check it out if using the GPS coordinates, eat before you go.