contact@idyllpictures.com / Thailand: +668 5036 7754 / Singapore: +65 8180 7581
Idyll Productions is a media organization and co-operative. Based in Southeast Asia, we mainly work with local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in documentary media production and training.
Our research team comprises of academics experienced in the nexus of social, political and environmental aspects of Southeast Asian studies. Building on extensive local knowledge, we provide a variety of services ranging from field research, pre-production to final, polished media products.
Organizations we work with:
Our research team comprises of academics experienced in the nexus of social, political and environmental aspects of Southeast Asian studies. Building on extensive local knowledge, we provide a variety of services ranging from field research, pre-production to final, polished media products.
Organizations we work with:
- Fisheries Action Coalition Team, Cambodia
- Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, National University of Singapore
- Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
- Motion picture and stills production
- Workshops: Photography / Film, sound & video / Post-production
- Post-production: Final Cut Pro editing and colour correction
- Off-shore post-production (we edit for you from cost-convenient location)
- HD-ready field editing services
- Voice-over recording, sound foley and mixing
- Equipment rental
- Consultancy for field documentary
- Recce for field work
- Annual reports: write-ups and photography
- Research and development write-ups
- Promotional videos
- Crewing Feel free to contact us for customized services.
Past Projects
Field Studies
Fisheries Action Coalition Team Training and Capacity Building
Doi Chaang - a field studies story
Domnaer - Khymer experential journey
Self-directed Photography / Lomography Workshop
Ongoing Projects
Floating Lives
Food-Borne Trematodes, Snails and Satellites
Field Studies
Fisheries Action Coalition Team Training and Capacity Building
Doi Chaang - a field studies story
Domnaer - Khymer experential journey
Self-directed Photography / Lomography Workshop
Ongoing Projects
Floating Lives
Food-Borne Trematodes, Snails and Satellites
General Inquiries
Email: contact@idyllpictures.com
Telephone: +668 5036 7754 (Thailand)
+65 8180 7581 (Singapore)
Email: contact@idyllpictures.com
Telephone: +668 5036 7754 (Thailand)
+65 8180 7581 (Singapore)
"Field Studies" - 40 minute documentary video - An annual programme offered at the National University of Singapore takes students to Thailand for six weeks. The Idyll crew followed them to produce this account of their learning and findings. Produced in Thailand for the National University of Singapore in mid 2006.
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Training and Capacity Building. Working with members of the Fisheries Action Coalition Team in Cambodia to improve their media collecting and creation capacity. Early 2007 and on-going.
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"Doi Chang - a field studies story" - 25 minute documentary video. Five students from the National University spend four days in the remote village of Doi Chang in northern Thailand. The purpose of their stay is to try, for the first time in their lives, collecting first-hand research data. They decide to try an unusual method which involves giving the local people cameras to photograph their own village. Produced in Chiang Rai province of Thailand for the National University of Singapore in mid 2007.
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"Domnaer" - A video/photography/web educational documentary project involving university students. Idyll Productions acted in a teaching/facilitating capacity, working with a number of young people to produce documentary video and still images of their fellow students on a field trip to remote areas of Cambodia. A weblog was created, incorporating articles contributed by the university students. Produced in Cambodia for the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, National University of Singapore in late 2007.Click here to view the weblog
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We focus on one activist working with a fisheries NGO, one fisherman, and one woman who live in a typical "floating village" in theTonle Sap. Our story focuses on the issue of declining fish catches as a prism to understanding many other livelihood issues in the Tonle Sap (Great Lake) of Cambodia. Our story broadens out to explore how and why village-level stories relate to a much greater problem facing the Mekong Basin as a whole (through interviews with key professionals and scientists working on environmental and fisheries issues). We end with a close look at NGO activism in relation to our community focus, and explore how and why communities like this should be central to future social, economic and environmental policies and actions.
Collaborative partner agency: Fisheries Action Coalition Team (FACT), Cambodia.
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Collaborative partner agency: Fisheries Action Coalition Team (FACT), Cambodia.
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We start off with remote-sensing images of the Mekong Basin, and quickly zoom into a typical food market in the Isaan area of northeast Thailand. We follow ordinary villagers in the market, eating food such as koi-plaa and other dishes, and through the voices and actions of people illustrate why eating raw and partially cooked fish dishes are central aspects of local food cultures in this region.
The film's main "star" or "anti-hero" is a food-borne trematode called Opistorchis viverrini. Millions of people are said to be infected with O. viverrini and another common trematode, Clonorchis sinensis, within the Mekong Basin. In Thailand alone, especially the epicenter of infection - in Isaan, an estimated 6 million people are infected with liver fluke. Infection with these food-borne parasites comes mostly from diets which include a variety of uncooked fish dishes. In areas of poor sanitation or sewerage infrastructure, people infected with O. viverrini can pass parasite eggs in their faeces into water, and these can then be eaten by intermediate host snails to begin another cycle of infection.
We examine the worlds of O. viverrini through the work of key scientists and professionals (micro-biologists, parasitologists, ecologists, specialists on cholangiocarcinoma (liver fluke cancer), public health practitioners, as well as a host of "local" characters. We look at both the macrological and micrological implications and linkages, utilising scientific and geographical evidence. We also seek to illustrate the links between different hosts - snails, fish and human beings. Finally, we examine certain critical interventions that are aiming to tackle this major public health problem.
Collaborating scientists: Ross H. Andrews, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia; Trevor N. Petney, Institute of Zoology: Ecology and Parasitology, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Paiboon Sithithaworn, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University; Liver Fluke and Cholangiocarcinoma Research Center (LFCRC), Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University.
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The film's main "star" or "anti-hero" is a food-borne trematode called Opistorchis viverrini. Millions of people are said to be infected with O. viverrini and another common trematode, Clonorchis sinensis, within the Mekong Basin. In Thailand alone, especially the epicenter of infection - in Isaan, an estimated 6 million people are infected with liver fluke. Infection with these food-borne parasites comes mostly from diets which include a variety of uncooked fish dishes. In areas of poor sanitation or sewerage infrastructure, people infected with O. viverrini can pass parasite eggs in their faeces into water, and these can then be eaten by intermediate host snails to begin another cycle of infection.
We examine the worlds of O. viverrini through the work of key scientists and professionals (micro-biologists, parasitologists, ecologists, specialists on cholangiocarcinoma (liver fluke cancer), public health practitioners, as well as a host of "local" characters. We look at both the macrological and micrological implications and linkages, utilising scientific and geographical evidence. We also seek to illustrate the links between different hosts - snails, fish and human beings. Finally, we examine certain critical interventions that are aiming to tackle this major public health problem.
Collaborating scientists: Ross H. Andrews, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia; Trevor N. Petney, Institute of Zoology: Ecology and Parasitology, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Paiboon Sithithaworn, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University; Liver Fluke and Cholangiocarcinoma Research Center (LFCRC), Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University.
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Through co-operation between Cultural Canvas Thailand, Freedom House School and photographer Liam Morgan (of Idyll Productions), this project aims to conduct photography workshops with children of impoverished Burmese migrant workers in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Using Lomo cameras, the children will create an engaging body of work to be exhibited to the general public in mid-march of 2008. The objectives of these workshops are as follows:- To allow underprivileged children to enjoy and experience the fun of photography, something they otherwise would not be able to do.
- To raise awareness of the living situation of these migrant workers and their families through artistic and creative means.
- Raise awareness of and funds for this privately-funded school.
- To break barriers between different segments of society. At the exhibitions, people from more affluent backgrounds will meet the children, see their photographs, come to know their stories. By seeing in real life, both the photographs and meeting the children alongside their parents, a greater connection between the subject matter, the photographers and the audience will occur.
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What exactly is fair-trade? Among the vast array of fair-trade products, fair-trade coffee ranks as the largest single fairtrade product in terms of trade volume. An increasing number of coffee drinkers are making the choice to go with the flow of fair-trade.
Starbucks, often criticized for its corporate exploitation of Third World coffee farmers, has jumped on the fair-trade bandwagon in an effort to answer its critics. However, does fair-trade coffee guarantee the best buck for the bean grower? Do you know the story brewing in your coffee cup?
This investigative documentary digs deep into the coffee industry, tracing the entire process from coffee plant to coffee cup. It looks closely at one of Starbucks’ fair-trade coffees, called Muan Jai blend.
The story of Starbucks’ Muan Jai blend takes us to one of the sources of the coffee beans, Baan Huay Hom. There, farmers tell us about the changes they have experienced as a result of the relationship with Starbucks. Starbucks’ personnel, from managers to baristas, then give us their opinion on why they believe that setting aside 5% of Muan Jai sales for development projects should bode well for the coffee farmers’ of Huay Hom.
A few hours away in Doi Chaang, the Doi Chaang Coffee Cooperative sits atop a magnificent mountain range. Here, the coffee farmers relate their story of overcoming all odds without the help of the rich and powerful. By engaging directly with the market, the Doi Chaang farmers have managed to lift themselves out of abject poverty, and one may say, even accumulate enough wealth to make urban coffee drinkers envious.
The inner workings of the coffee industry are exposed in this film, showing us how there is an alternative trading system which might just be fairer to both producer and consumer. Your cup of coffee might always taste the same, but in every cup there is a different story.
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Starbucks, often criticized for its corporate exploitation of Third World coffee farmers, has jumped on the fair-trade bandwagon in an effort to answer its critics. However, does fair-trade coffee guarantee the best buck for the bean grower? Do you know the story brewing in your coffee cup?
This investigative documentary digs deep into the coffee industry, tracing the entire process from coffee plant to coffee cup. It looks closely at one of Starbucks’ fair-trade coffees, called Muan Jai blend.
The story of Starbucks’ Muan Jai blend takes us to one of the sources of the coffee beans, Baan Huay Hom. There, farmers tell us about the changes they have experienced as a result of the relationship with Starbucks. Starbucks’ personnel, from managers to baristas, then give us their opinion on why they believe that setting aside 5% of Muan Jai sales for development projects should bode well for the coffee farmers’ of Huay Hom.
A few hours away in Doi Chaang, the Doi Chaang Coffee Cooperative sits atop a magnificent mountain range. Here, the coffee farmers relate their story of overcoming all odds without the help of the rich and powerful. By engaging directly with the market, the Doi Chaang farmers have managed to lift themselves out of abject poverty, and one may say, even accumulate enough wealth to make urban coffee drinkers envious.
The inner workings of the coffee industry are exposed in this film, showing us how there is an alternative trading system which might just be fairer to both producer and consumer. Your cup of coffee might always taste the same, but in every cup there is a different story.
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