We were just alerted to this intriguing website called AsiaPacificFilms.com, a website that's streaming "culturally and historically significant films from Asia and the Pacific." All the films on the site are selected by a panel of scholars, critics and curators, and can be streamed in DVD quality. From the intro on their site : Fact: 95 percent of these films are never seen outside of their own countries because mainstream distributors don’t bring them to the global market, or filmmakers from these areas lack access to distribution channels. Our curators -- experts in Asian and Pacific cinema studies - hand-pick our films for their cultural nuances... [read full story]
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