What Can Small Festivals Do? Toward Film Festivals as Testimony to Expanded Civic Engagement in Post-Handover Hong Kong

Yau, Esther

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55016-3_8

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“…Despite this, Hong Kong independent cinema developed steadily, marked by the establishment of organizations such as YEC (in 1997) and Visible Record (in 2004), with the latter focusing on the promotion and production of documentary filmmaking in particular. The same period also saw the appearance of several festivals dedicated to independent cinema, such as the Hong Kong social movement film festival (since 2003), Visible Record's Chinese Documentary Festival (since 2008; renamed the Hong Kong International Documentary Festival in 2019) and YEC's HKIndieFF (since 2008) (Yau, 2017).…”

Section: Hong Kong Social Movement Documentariesmentioning

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Propagandist or objective observer? Independent documentaries in/on Hong Kong's recent social movements

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PurposeThis article explores recent changes in Hong Kong’s independent documentary filmmaking during a decade of escalating protests in the territory, focusing in particular on cinema's role in Hong Kong's “movement field.”Design/methodology/approachThe article focuses on Ying E Chi, an important distributor and promoter of Hong Kong independent films; the annual Hong Kong Independent Film Festival it organizes; three recent documentaries it distributes that are relevant to the 2019–2020 protests. The findings in this article are based on interviews, the textual analysis of relevant films and participant observation at film screenings.FindingsThis study argues that independent documentaries function in Hong Kong's “movement field” in three main ways: by contributing to and providing a space for civic discourse, by facilitating international advocacy and by engaging in memory work. Its contributions to civic culture, it asserts, are reflected in the films' observational aesthetic, which invites reflection and discussion. Public screenings and lengthy post-screening discussions are important ways in which these functions are realized.Originality/valueThis article builds on existing literature to propose a new way of thinking about cinema's role in Hong Kong social movements. It also analyses three important recent films that have not yet been covered much in existing academic literature.

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Section: Hong Kong Social Movement Documentariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Propagandist or objective observer? Independent documentaries in/on Hong Kong's recent social movements

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What Can Small Festivals Do? Toward Film Festivals as Testimony to Expanded Civic Engagement in Post-Handover Hong Kong

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Propagandist or objective observer? Independent documentaries in/on Hong Kong's recent social movements

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