Dr Philippa Lovatt is a Lecturer in Film Studies at University of St Andrews where she is Co-Director for the Centre for Screen Cultures. Her research focusses on artists’ moving image, sound, eco-cinema, and independent film and video cultures in Southeast Asia. She is co-editor of the dossier for Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, ‘Theorizing Region: Film and Video Cultures in Southeast Asia’ co-edited with Jasmine Nadua Trice, which is forthcoming in 2021. She has previously published her research in Screen; Sound, Music and the Moving Image; The New Soundtrack, SoundEffects, and Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia. Philippa is on the editorial board of the journal Sound, Music and the Moving Image and was previously on the editorial board of The New Soundtrack Journal. She is also a member of the Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas and between 2016 and 2018 was PI on the AHRC funded research network, the Southeast Asian Cinemas Research Network: Promoting Dialogue Across Critical and Creative Practice with co-Is Prof Jasmine Nadua Trice, Prof Gaik Cheng Khoo and artist and filmmaker Nguyen Trinh Thi.