In addition to shooting & distributing images, Sakse runs a wide range of projects & activities that teach, mentor and support emerging and established media makers in Northern Burma.
Everyday Kachin
Rebels & Reform
Burma Photography Showcase
Let my Voice be Heard
The displaced share
Naw Ming Grants / Award
Everyday Kachin
The Everyday Kachin page was established to showcase some of the best images from Kachin, so as to open up Northern Burma aesthetically and to help inspire understanding from the international community to the plight of the Kachin peoples. As well using it as a gateway to find new talent to bring into our programs and to showcase the emerging visual art scene within the Kachin community.
www.everydaykachin.com
Let My Voice Be Heard
Let My Voice Be Heardis a participatory photography project working to empower women and youth in Kachin State who have been displace by the conflict, to share their experiences and perspectives through photography and digital story-telling.
Naw Ming grants / award
This award in honor of Naw Ming has morphed from an annual award into a monthly grant program, which offers 12 grants a year based on project proposals.
Grants of 200,000 MMK will be given monthly to help extend the reach of quality documentation in Kachin & N. Burma.
Sakse’s grant info & application
Everyday Kachin
The Everyday Kachin page was established to showcase some of the best images from Kachin, so as to open up Northern Burma aesthetically and to help inspire understanding from the international community to the plight of the Kachin peoples. As well using it as a gateway to find new talent to bring into our programs and to showcase the emerging visual art scene within the Kachin community.
Sakse Film Production
Studio Sakse is a film production social enterprise, working to create a fully functioning micro-film industry in Kachin within the next 5-10 years. With feature and short films being regularly written, shot and edited by local Kachin fiction, animation and documentary film makers.
‘Maran’ – The first feature film from Sakse was 75% complete when Covid halted all shooting till now.
Animation will be a large part of Sakse’s plans for the future.
We already have the physical space for a production studio in Chiang Mai & are currently seeking funding for the necessary gear and more film-centric workshops to fully realize the potential of Studio Sakse.
Unfiltered
Unflitered is a film project without answers, it is designed to spark curiosity & questions.
Not shown online anywhere.
The core team of Studio Sakse on set shooting Sakse’s first feature film ‘Maran’
Burma Photo Showcase
This showcase of exhibitions and screenings gives context and faces to stories you have never heard, from a country you don’t know how to call.
As freedom of expression starts to peak its head out from 50 years of harsh censorship the visual arts scene in Burma is getting interesting
This showcase is just scratching the surface of this exciting but still risky time for photography in Burma.
produced by Sakse & DocArtsAsia
Publishing
Zine
with the content created from our grants & Everyday Kachin, we we’re able to launch the Everyday Kachin Zine, a small magazine in English and Burmese language, covering politics, arts and culture from both the region and the wider Kachin diaspora. It has just one edition published.
Everyday Kachin books
100 best images, pushlished as an affordable book annually
First edition to be released in early 2022
Diversity of Content Creators
Sakse recognizes that engaging with often disenfranchised groups is integral to achieving a representative media. As such we go out of our way to actively encourage and support people of marginalized groups who’s stories are often overlooked, be it women, young people, economically disadvantaged or under-represented individuals to participate in our activities and work.
Planned Projects
Film & Photo Festival
Moving forward, Sakse is laying the ground work now for a Kachin Film / Photo festival.
Portions of this festival can travel and be shown in cities, villages and refugee camps.
We hope to have this project launched by end of 2021.
Help us make this festival a reality.