With a special issue on Asian animation just finished, Asian Cinema, the journal of the Asian Cinema Studies Society, is now planning a special issue on Asian documentary. The growing number of documentary film festivals in Japan, Taiwan, India, and other Asian countries and the proliferation of Asian works at these festivals attests to the significant rise in documentary filmmaking in many Asian regions. The special issue of Asian Cinema aims to introduce and investigate this recent surge, as well as the history behind it. Given the on-going vibrancy of Asian documentary, we are looking for papers written on a variety of countries from a variety of perspectives. Submissions by academics, filmmakers, and critics are encouraged, and a few interviews and translations may also be published. Subjects can include the following:

- Introductions to the contemporary and/or historical state of documentary in an Asian nation or region
- Analyses of particular films or filmmakers
- Reports by filmmakers on their work or experiences
- Theorizations of documentary in an Asian context
- Translations into English of important non-English studies on Asian documentary
- Reports on Asian documentary film festivals
- Government policies on documentary filmmaking
- Education in documentary
- The relation of non-fiction to fiction film in Asian countries

To enable a large number of articles, submissions are limited to 3000 words in length. Hard and disk copies of submissions should be sent to:

Asian Cinema
c/o John Lent
669 Ferne Blvd.
Drexel Hill, PA 19026 USA

All parts of the manuscript should be in the same file on disk and the disk should be labeled with the file name. Manuscripts should be in Chicago Style and accompanied by a short one-paragraph profile of the author. Articles can be accompanied by up to four photographs, with each appropriately captioned. Submissions will be screened by the editors and authors informed of the decision whether or not to publish. The deadline for submissions for this special issue is May 15, 2004. Late submissions will not be accepted.

Aaron Gerow
Film Studies/EALL
Yale University
E-mail: aaron.gerow@yale.edu