The Chiang Mai Documentary Arts Festival was one of the major projects ran Documentary Arts Asia. It was bi-annual photography and film festival designed to serve the growing number of people interested in documentary photography and film in Thailand and Asia. It was also the first Documentary Photo Festival in Thailand. We hosted several film-making workshops, photobook showcases, print exchanges, guest speakers & Q&A’s from leading documentary artists from across the world.

DocArtsAsia has also been involved in several other festivals across asia, such as The Suwon Photo Festival, Kyotography, Dali International Photo Festival & Yangon Photo Festival.

The Chiang Mai Documentary Arts Festival 2013 ran from the 8th of February to the 14th of February. The program included exhibitions by Shahidul Alam, Ekkarat Punyatara, Vlad Sokhin, students from DAA’s Satellite Center in Kachin State, Greenpeace, an Asian Women Photographers Showcase, a Kashmiri Photographers Showcase, a DAA Retrospective Exhibition, and several partner exhibitions around Chiang Mai. We screened five excellent prize-winning documentaries including The Cheer Ambassadors, 5 Broken Cameras, The Choice, Golden Slumbers, and High Tech, Low Life.

The first Chiang Mai Documentary Arts Festival ran between the 24th and 26th February 2012 and featured exhibitions by Paula Bronstein, Ami Vitale, Veejay Villafranca, Greg Constantine, Suthep Kritsanavarin, Sitthixay Ditthavong and National Geographic All Roads as well as three days of workshops and portfolio reviews, and three nights of film screenings and events. You can view a set of images from CDAF’12 to see more.