HKFFUK X AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UK:
SCREENING + PANEL DISCUSSION
I. SHORT FILM PROGRAMME：POST-APOCALYPTIC HONG KONG
DATE/ TIME:
19 MARCH 2023 (SUN) 14:00 - 17:00
Venue:
Human Rights Action Centre, 25 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA
(Amnesty International UK’s London office)
Language:
Cantonese, with English and British sign language interpretation
MODERATOR:
Loretta Lau Wai-ting
Panelists:
Ieong Kin Pong (Dir. of Wall Along the Wall | 十二點前我要返屋企);
Steve Li (Dir. of Lost Pearl | 失城);
Asgard Wong (Dir. of Time and Time Again)
Programme rundown:
Time opens for admission: 13:30
Screening & panel discussion: 14:00 – 17:00
Screenings:
1. Depths of Night | 極夜 (2021), 13 mins (Dir: Step C. | 張小踏)
2. Wall Along the Wall | 十二點前我要返屋企 (2021), 30 mins (Dir: Leong Kin Pong | 楊建邦)
3. Lost Pearl | 失城 (2021), 21 mins (Dir: Steve Li | 李昊)
4. Time and Time Again (2022), 30 mins (Dir: Asgard Wong | 王彥博)
5. That Spring, In The Sky Of H-Ville, There Was ____ | 那年春天，H城的天空上出現了＿＿ (2022), 9 min (Dir: Chung Hong IU | 姚仲匡)
(Total: 103 mins)
Post-screening panel discussion:
During the post-screening panel discussion, Director of Wall Along the Wall Ieong Kin Pong, Director of Lost Pearl Steve Li, and Director of Time and Time Again Asgard Wong, will discuss the current situation of Hong Kong as well as the psychological state of the people in the Hong Kong civil society as reflected back in the films.
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IEONG Kin-pong creates images in different media. Since the 2014 Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong, he made some narrative and non-narrative shorts on the status of HK people. In 2019, he helped make documentaries of the people during the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement. He keeps on living and filming in Hong Kong.
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Steve LI is an independent Hong Kong based writer-director, active since graduating from CUHK Business School. Li’s drama short “Lost Pearl” was selected at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2022 amongst other international film festivals. His film, “Taste of Tomato” (2019), was selected for the 13th Fresh Wave Short Film Festival. Alongside producing short films, he has been writing feature films scripts. In 2021, he finished his first feature film proposal “Beyond the Waves” which entered 4th HAF Film Lab. Currently, he is working on his second feature proposal “Anthea”.
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Since 2013, when a short film I was a part of was selected by a German film festival, there seems to be a strange connection between myself and the country. I worked as a 2nd AC on the film “Guns Akimbo” there.
After returning to Hong Kong, I applied to multiple production assistant jobs to no avail. I work mostly as an assistant camera or VFX artist in indie projects.
Realising how close filmmakers from other Asian countries work with the European industry, I hope to return to Germany to seek new possibilities there as a Hong Kong filmmaker, particularly during this diasporic time of our city.
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Loretta Lau Wai-ting is a Hong Kong-born political artist and the founder of NGO-dei (我地), a non-governmental organization established in Prague by Czech and Hong Kong people to promote cultural exchange and advocacy. Recently, Loretta and NGO-dei launched a campaign called "#ReturnthePillar" that calls on HKU to return the Pillar of Shame to its rightful owner. "
Presented in partnership with Amnesty International UK
II. THE HONGKONGER: JIMMY LAI’S EXTRAORDINARY STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
DATE/ TIME:
20 MARCH 2023 (MON) 19:00 – 21:30
Venue:
Human Rights Action Centre, 25 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA
(Amnesty International UK’s London office)
Language: English, with Cantonese interpretation and British sign language
Host:
nabila hanson, AIUK Country Coordinator for China and Taiwan
Speakers:
Shirley Leung Ka-lai, former Apple Daily reporter and now Chief Editor of Photon Media
Howard Zhang, Editor and Head of Service for BBC News Chinese
Fiona O’Brien, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Director of London Bureau
Eric Lai Yan-ho, Visiting researcher of King’s College London School of Law
Programme rundown:
Screening & panel discussion: 19:00-21:30
Screening:
The Hongkonger: Jimmy Lai’s Extraordinary Struggle for Freedom (2022), 73 mins, (Dir: Rev. Robert A. Sirico)
Post-screening panel discussion:
During the post-screening panel discussion, speakers will discuss the curtailment of freedoms of press and expression in Hong Kong. They will also talk about how people in the Hong Kong civil society have been coping with such challenges.
Presented in partnership with Amnesty International UK
