Documentary by DIIS researcher awarded
'Heartbound' by DIIS Senior Researcher Sine Plambech was awarded the Richard Werbner Award for Visual Ethnography by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain on March 28.
'Heartbound' is based on the ethnographic research by Senior Researcher Sine Plambech and co-directed with Janus Metz and follows a group of Thai migrant women over the course of ten years in Denmark and their home communities on rural Thailand. It is a global portrait of migration set on the intimate stage of marriage migration.
The Royal Anthropological Institutes Film Award is given to an academic anthropologist, preferably as part of a research project and based upon extensive fieldwork by the filmmaker among the film’s subjects. Special consideration is given to works that explore the distinctive capacity of the film to complement and enhance anthropological knowledge communicated through text.
'Heartbound' was also awarded The Dublin International Film Festivals Human Rights Award for 'an outstanding achievement in raising awareness and understanding of human rights through the medium of film and for challenging how we think about economic migration'.
It is the fourth film award to 'Heartbound' among a range of still pending nominations.
The anthropological research on which 'Heartbound' is based is funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research’s FKK and Sapere Aude programme.
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