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Subtitling Project

CSEAS launched a Southeast Asian film subtitling and translation course at UH Mānoa in 2007. The course created by former CSEAS associate director Paul Rausch and taught by John McGlynn (Lontar Foundation – Jakarta) trained students with advanced Southeast Asian language skills to translate and subtitle Southeast Asian films.

Subtitled and translated films and tv shows from this project are now housed in Southeast Asia Digital Library. As for the Vietnamese Cinema, it is available at the UH Mānoa Library. To access the complete list of films with a synopsis, click here

  • Vietnamese Cinema for Libraries Catalog

    A landmark Southeast Asia film subtitling project has reached completion. Through a multi-year collaboration between the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at the University of Hawai’i-Mānoa (UHM) and the Viện Phim Việt Nam (Vietnam Film Institute – VFI) in Hanoi, more than 70 classic Vietnamese feature films have been digitized, translated, and subtitled in

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