Lawan Jirasuradej

A 2006 documentary made in Uganda that follows three women, Sharifa, Fatuma, and Peninah, and tracks their participation in a program that aids them in making wheel chairs of their own.

Lawan Jirasuradej’s independent 16mm shorts, Painted Earth, were created during her Fulbright graduate scholarship study at San Francisco State University's School of Cinema. Painted Earth is among a handful of Thai experimental films made by independent filmmakers in the 1990s, and its combination of poetic images and narration brings together the two worlds of sound and picture, of the USA and Thailand.