Ma Ran

Ma Ran is the associate professor at the international programme of ‘Japan-in-Asia’ Cultural Studies and the programme of Cinema Studies (eizogaku), Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan. Her research interests include East Asian independent cinemas and film festival studies, for which she has published several journal articles and book chapters, including the two recently co-edited special issues titled ‘In/visibility in post-war Okinawan images’ for the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema (2021). Ma is also the author of Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia (2019). Besides research, she has also organised screening events of independent films at Osaka, Beijing and Nagoya.