Hong Kong Filmmakers Build New Homes, Festivals Overseas
16.06.2022 - 15:07
/ variety.com
Vivienne Chow To Hong Kong documentary filmmaker Ngan Chi-sing, seeking asylum in the U.K. is going to be one of his priorities in the coming year. That’s because he has made a film about the 2019 protests that he fears would endanger his security, should he ever return to his home city.“Hong Kong cannot tolerate documentary films like mine anymore,” Ngan, the director of “Love in the Time of Revolution,” which premieres this week at the inaugural edition of the Melbourne Hong Kong Film Festival running from June 12-19 in Australia, told Variety.
Ngan himself handles the international sales of the film, which appeared in Vision du Reel earlier this year.The Melbourne Hong Kong Film Festival is organized by the Victoria Hong Kongers Association, which says many people from the Hong Kong diaspora have been waiting to see the films. A similar event, the Hong Kong Film Festival U.K., was organized earlier this year in London where other former Hong Kong residents have moved. The 35-year-old is not alone.
Over the past year, a growing list of filmmakers, artists, creatives and media personalities have left Hong Kong following the implementation of the National Security Law on June 30, 2020. Since then, over a hundred have been arrested, including pro-democracy politicians, activists, and journalists from the now-defunct Apple Daily and Stand News. The local authorities have also revived colonial era laws on sedition to silence opposition voices.
Many of the new exiles have settled in the U.K. due to visa arrangements which allow British National (Overseas) passport holders a pathway to full U.K. citizenship.
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