Catholics should be using cinema and culture to dialogue with other faiths, and we should be doing so in the market place, said President of SIGNIS World Augustine Loorthusamy in his keynote address at the SIGNIS Asia Assembly in Nepal in October.
Two leadership roles – Director and Executive Producer – are open in Casa de Produção Audiovisual (CPA), the first non-profit audiovisual production house in Timor-Leste.
When Fr In-young Albert Cho SJ came up with the idea of taking retreats to the people, he chose to use Twitter, which make sense in Korea with its high use of the Internet and mobile phone.
Now his Street Retreat is expanding into print.From September, the Catholic Times in Koreawill bepublishing the weekly tweets of the Street Retreat in its print edition. The tweets will be printed along one of the edges of the newspaper so that readers can tear them off to carry them around with them.
Fr In-young is very pleased with this development.
From puppet shows to ‘tweet retreats’, Jesuit communications people around Asia are finding new and unique ways to get their message across.
INDONESIA − With a long history working in media in Indonesia, it is inevitable that Jesuit scholastics in Indonesia produce films as part of their formation. The scholastics are attached to Studio Audio Visual Puskat (SAV Puskat), the Jesuit established and run audio visual training and production centre in Sinduharjo, on the outskirts of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
A film is being produced on Mgr A Soegijapranata SJ, the first native Catholic bishop in Indonesia. Mgr Soegijapranata was appointed Bishop of Indonesia in 1940.
Casa de Produção Audiovisual (CPA) is the only non-profit production house in Timor-Leste that regularly produces multimedia products in Tetun. Its director Amelia Hapsari provides an update.
Each morning, the staff of CPA gather in a circle to pray. They are writers, cameramen, editors and animators who have been trained in CPA since the dawn of the young country. The task on their shoulders is both heavy and humble. They share hope through storytelling.
It’s not easy for people today to take time out of their busy lives for a spiritual retreat.
So Fr Albert Cho In-young (KOR) has decided to take retreats to the people – with the help of Twitter.
“For Catholics, going on retreat usually means coming away to a remote place to meet God,” said Father Cho, who studies spirituality and theology in Ireland.
“But if we spare a little of our time, we can also meet God in the midst of our busy everyday life, even while walking on the street,” he added.
The year of 2010 is a special year for Studio Audio Visual (SAV) Puskat. In this year SAV Puskat celebrates the 40th anniversary (1970-2010). The celebration is on every 15th of August.
The Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) has developed a communications action plan aimed at pooling its resources, strengthening communications skills and articulating its vision and purpose in a unified way.
At a recent creative communications workshop held in Manila, professionals from the Philippines, Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan, East Timor, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Australia showcased their products and discussed ways in which they could work together to improve their communications function.