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AsiaLENS AsiaLENS is a film screening and discussion series offering campus and community audiences an opportunity to view documentary and independent film on issues reflecting contemporary life in Asia. Presented admission free by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Spurlock Museum and Asian Educational Media Service, audiences engage with local and visiting experts who introduce the films and lead post-screening discussions. Fall 2019 screenings are held at 7pm on the second Tuesday of the months of September, October and November at Spurlock Museum, located at 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, IL. AsiaLENS screenings are funded in part by the Spurlock Museum's Y.T. Lo and S. de Mundo Lo Scholar's Studio Endowment and B.A. Knight Endowment. Full schedule for Fall 2019 is listed below. Information on past screenings:Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
AsiaLENS Upcoming Fall 2019 Calendar: Remittance Lovesick Drokpa: Nomads of Tibet Remittance
Introduction and post-screening discussion with Heather M. Gifford 
Description: Based upon an original script by Patrick Daly and Joel Fendelman, Remittance is a realistic portrayal of low-wage migrant workers in Singapore shot at real locations with a cast including actual domestic workers. Following Marie, a foreign domestic worker from the Philippines, the film immerses us in the joys and hopes of the characters, while facing insurmountable setbacks, anxieties, and frustrations. Through the transformations Marie goes through as a woman dealing with conflicting obligations and aspirations, viewers better understand a global story of the commodification of labor and exportation of mothers from poor third world countries to first world nations.
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Post-screening discussion with Sulagna Chakraborty, PhD student, Program in Ecology, Evolution & Conservation Biology and Mara Thacker, South Asian Studies & Global Popular Culture Librarian. Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - 7pm Co-sponsored by International and Area Studies Library. 
Description: In India, how do you find love if you are HIV-positive? Dr. Suniti Solomon, who discovered India’s first case of HIV in 1986, and founded India’s premier HIV/AIDS clinic finds a way, by matchmaking her HIV-positive patients. Shot over eight years, Lovesick interweaves Dr. Solomon’s personal and professional journeys with the lives of two patients: Karthik, a reticent bachelor, and Manu who, like many women in India, was infected by her first husband. Told with humor and compassion, Lovesick is a surprising and hopeful story about the universal desire for love. Resources:
Post-screening discussants: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 7pm Presented as part of International Week. 
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