ABOUT US
F.R.A.M.E.
Join the Fellowship of Revolutionary Art & Media Expression — or FRAME — a global network of artists and fans inspired by independent filmmakers and artists worldwide. Located in Chiang Mai, a city that has a rich cultural existence, FRAME is an active community dedicated to finding, appreciating, and celebrating film, art, and media of all forms.
From underground film and mainstream cinema to visual arts, experimental media, and cross-disciplinary productions, FRAME is a site for visionary thinking and impassioned dialogue. We offer ongoing screenings, performances, creative salons, and debates — often swapped while snacking and laughing — in which story, technique, culture, and imagination converge on and off screen.
Join us and become part of a dynamic, multi-platform community where everybody has a voice, every point of view matters, and every frame — in every medium — is an opportunity to connect and tell.
Upcoming
All Static & Noise (2023)
Directed by David Novack
A moving documentary that follows survivors and activists as they expose the systemic mass detention and human rights abuses of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in China’s Xinjiang region.
Cinemata — Her Frame
Women Filmmakers on Cinemata by Eunice Helera
Curated by Eunice Helera — a special program of short films by women filmmakers from Philippines and Malaysia. Across these films, women confront the expectations placed upon them: how they should behave, what they should want, and the roles they are expected to carry; revealing how women are often judged for being too different, too outspoken, too radical, or too liberated — yet also expected to endure, provide, and care for others.
Cuban Contemporary Shorts
Stories of Identity and Survival
Cuban filmmaker Joanna Vidal presents Cuban Contemporary Shorts: Stories of Identity and Survival — a curated program exploring the intersections of personal experience and collective reality in contemporary Cuban cinema.
Built around the thematic axis ‘from the individual to the social body,’ this selection brings together a diverse range of short films that examine how identity is shaped through intimacy, relationships, and social conditions.
Cuban Contemporary Shorts brings together fiction, documentary, and animation in a dialogue that reflects the complexity of Cuban life today — not as a singular narrative, but as a constellation of voices, each navigating identity and survival in their own way.
Introducing Our Newest Team Member
Nan
Nan is a Thai changemaker who is passionate about films. After 10 years in the development sector, she’s convinced that films (and art) can truly move the needle on social change: they reach people in ways that reports and policy papers never will. These days, she’s fighting for digital rights at EngageMedia, working with grassroots activists across SEA to push back against digital authoritarianism.
Core Team
Amélie
Filmmaker
Amélie Chen-Yen-Su is a filmmaker from Reunion island. Passionate about writing, directing and acting, she has made it a mission to represent diversity in her work and give a voice to those who have a hard time being heard. Currently living in Chiang Mai, Thailand, she’s exploring different ways to break Asian stereotypes in Western media.
Subhashani
Filmmaker, Teacher
Subhashani Dewada, currently an English Teacher in Chiang Mai, Thailand comes with a background in media. She started her profession journey in India with NDTV and Star News and has worked on various film and television projects like, Sesame Street, Unfreedom, Pappu Can’t Dance Sala, and Butterfly Wings. She was also active in theatre in Delhi and is currently involved in theatre in Chiang Mai. An individual with a variety of interests she enjoys being busy and juggling her time.
Nan
Changemaker
Nan is a Thai changemaker who is passionate about films. After 10 years in the development sector, she’s convinced that films (and art) can truly move the needle on social change: they reach people in ways that reports and policy papers never will. These days, she’s fighting for digital rights at EngageMedia, working with grassroots activists across SEA to push back against digital authoritarianism.
Maitreya
Film Programmer, Filmmaker
Amidst other things, Maitreya is a Film Programmer, Filmmaker and Community Organizer hailing from Mumbai, India. With a background in sound, journalism, and then film studies from the Netherlands, their work revolves around the intersection of these. Currently they are based in Chiang Mai, Thailand learning the Thai language, programming community film screenings and working on audiovisual projects.
Vinimay
Filmmaker, Artist, Musician & Techie
Vinimay Kaul is an Indian creative currently based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, working across indie filmmaking, software development, game development, graphic design, entrepreneurship, and music & art. Driven by a lifelong aspiration to bridge the realms of science and art, and inspired by figures like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Satyajit Ray, and Isaac Newton, he pursues a holistic and diverse approach to his creative endeavors.
Yugo
Filmmaker
Yugo Hattori – is a Brazilian filmmaker, animator, and educator whose work explores the intersections of documentary, animation, fiction and collective memory. Emancipatory pedagogies of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal are big influences in his core philosophies.
Location
Fellowship Cafe & Co-working
326/3 Chiang Mai-Lamphun Road, Wat Ket,
Mueang Chiang Mai,
Chiang Mai – 50000
Book Your Seat Now!!
Our screening events fill up fast — and while entry is free, registration is mandatory. To ensure we can host everyone comfortably and fairly, we urge you to reserve your seat in advance. Unfortunately, walk-ins cannot be guaranteed entry if we’re fully booked.
Important Attendance Policy
If you register but don’t show up — and fail to cancel at least 4 hours in advance — you may lose booking privileges for future FRAME events.
We know life can be unpredictable, and we’re flexible when notified. But when seats are held and guests don’t arrive, others miss out — including walk-ins who were genuinely eager to join. Let’s respect the community and keep this space vibrant and accessible for all.
Thank you for being thoughtful and making space when you need to.