2017 - 2019 REPORT
Knowledge Transfer
Documentary Film Screening and Dialogue with Film Directors (Film Screening)
The “Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series” serves as a platform to showcase films that highlight socio-economic, political and cultural issues in Greater China. The series provides an occasion where an audience would be able to interact and exchange ideas and opinions with filmmakers. Between 2017 and 2019, the Institute organized seven film screenings and post-screening dialogues with film directors, each drawing an enthusiastic audience from the academia and beyond:
- “Of Shadows” (影), directed by Yi Cui (崔誼), February 17, 2017
- “Death by Design” (科技代價), directed by Sue Williams (韋蘇), March 22, 2017
- “Murmuring Days” (日日喃喃), directed by Ko-shang Shen (沈可尚), November 17, 2017
- “Egg and Stone” (雞蛋和石頭), directed by Ji Huang (黃驥), March 22, 2018
- “The Virtue in the Valley” (群羊嘎粑), directed by Jamyang Tashi (加洋扎西), February 15, 2019
- “The Search” (覓食), directed by Losang Nyima (羅藏尼瑪), February 15, 2019
- “Children at a Village School” (村小的孩子), directed by Nengjie Jiang (蔣能杰), March 19, 2019
These were all very well received. In particular, the screening of “Death by Design” (科技代價) in March 2017 drew a full house, prompting the “Science, Technology and Medicine in Asian Societies” research cluster and its CRF Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th–21st Centuries (MMEA)” to invite director Sue Williams back to Hong Kong in November 2017 for a second screening and to engage in a dialogue with the audience. The November event attracted a large audience (over 100 people) from HKU, other universities and the local community.
The CRF MMEA Project organized another film screening on November 4, 2019. Director Yi Jian (簡藝), also Founder of the Good Food Fund, shared with the audience his short documentary Six Years On, a sequel to his What’s for Dinner?, and the thoughts behind his exciting journey from filmmaking to revolutionizing China’s culinary space in the last few years. The film show and post-screening presentation by Director Jian generated engaged responses from the audience.
