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Hong Kong Government Bans Film Screening
Ying E Chi (YEC), a non-profit art organisation that distributes Hong Kong independent films, applied for a 20,000 HKD subsidy from the Wong Tai Sin District Council to hold 3 movie nights to show movies related to Hong Kong's social movement: "Lost in the Fumes", "Yellowing" and "Last Exit to Kai Tak".
However, the application was denied by the government's Home Affairs Department (HAD).
The HAD quoted the the Manual on the Use of District Council Funds that the event will result in a conflict of interest, and it will end up becoming "propaganda for individuals featured in the movies", since the three movies are biographies and documentaries.
Vincent Chui, art director of YEC, said the government requested the names of the movies after their application was submitted. "20,000HKD is not a big amount, but I am not satisfied with the procedure. Our application was initially approved by the council, but they have taken back their words."
According to the manual, funding for projects that has the potential to give excessive credit to an individual, a commercial organisation, a political party shall not get approved. However, the screening of China-made propagandist film The Founding of a Nation (2019) was funded by the Tai Po District Council in the previous term in 2018.
Chui indicated that the YEC had received a phone call from the HAD requesting to change the movies to be screened. Chui disagreed with the HAD's concern of any potential conflict of interest from the event, as the YEC is a non-profit organisation.
Chui also mentioned that the copyright fee only goes to the film directors. Nobody in the YEC will get a cut from the fee.
Source: InMedia #Jun6
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Hong Kong Government Bans Film Screening
Ying E Chi (YEC), a non-profit art organisation that distributes Hong Kong independent films, applied for a 20,000 HKD subsidy from the Wong Tai Sin District Council to hold 3 movie nights to show movies related to Hong Kong's social movement: "Lost in the Fumes", "Yellowing" and "Last Exit to Kai Tak".
However, the application was denied by the government's Home Affairs Department (HAD).
The HAD quoted the the Manual on the Use of District Council Funds that the event will result in a conflict of interest, and it will end up becoming "propaganda for individuals featured in the movies", since the three movies are biographies and documentaries.
Vincent Chui, art director of YEC, said the government requested the names of the movies after their application was submitted. "20,000HKD is not a big amount, but I am not satisfied with the procedure. Our application was initially approved by the council, but they have taken back their words."
According to the manual, funding for projects that has the potential to give excessive credit to an individual, a commercial organisation, a political party shall not get approved. However, the screening of China-made propagandist film The Founding of a Nation (2019) was funded by the Tai Po District Council in the previous term in 2018.
Chui indicated that the YEC had received a phone call from the HAD requesting to change the movies to be screened. Chui disagreed with the HAD's concern of any potential conflict of interest from the event, as the YEC is a non-profit organisation.
Chui also mentioned that the copyright fee only goes to the film directors. Nobody in the YEC will get a cut from the fee.
Source: InMedia #Jun6
#YingEChi #VincentChui #LostintheFumes #NoraLam #HongKongIndie #IndependentFilms #DistrictCouncilor
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Pro-democracy Optical Store Owner: "We Will Go Even Further in the Future"
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/26931
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Mr Chiu, owner of Hong Ming Optical which offers free eyeglasses to pro-democracy students, graduated from the Optometry Department of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (#PolyU).
He started participating in social movement since the anti-Express Rail-link protest against the demolition of the Choi Yuen Village in 2008. “I was moved by the prostrating walk [by the protesters].”
After that, he joined the protest against national education and the 2014 umbrella revolution. When he was asked if society matters a lot to him, he replied immediately, “No, the society is not that important to me, but I can’t stay silent and do nothing.”
The pro-democracy posters and the promotional sticker of “Lost in the Fumes", a 2017-documentary about the localist icon Edward Leung, in the shop are Mr Chiu's answers.
During the interview, Mr Chiu mentioned he had helped in the election campaign of two localist groups "Hong Kong Indigenous" and "Youngspiration" in 2016 Legislative Election.
After Edward Leung, the spokeperson of "Hong Kong Indigenous" was jailed, Mr Chiu felt depressed and asked, “why did the youth have to suffer that? Why couldn't they be rewarded after putting so much effort?”
Just when Mr Chiu lamented that he might be the last generation of Hongkongers, Mr.Chiu changed his mind during the 2019 pro-democracy movement. “I thought the youths nowadays might have been brainwashed [by the authorities] and singing the national anthem," Mr Chiu said, "until I saw those 12 or 13-year-old kids... They were skinny and much shorter than me, but they stood in front of me [during protests].”
"I tried to persuade them to leave, but I failed. Then I have to stand in front of them," Mr Chiu said.
Mr Chiu has more than 50 friends being charged during the pro-democracy movement. That is why he always attends hearings. While Mr Chiu has a strong and muscular built, he cannot help but weeps bitterly in court. In order not to disturb others, he always sits at the last row.
While many professionals seem to have plans to leave Hong Kong, Mr Chiu was asked if he has thought about that. Mr Chiu jokingly replies, “Does working holiday count?” He then gave a serious answer, "Never."
Source: InMedia #Nov22
https://bit.ly/3kRn6Gv
#YellowStore #HongMingOptical #LostintheFumes #HongKongProtests
Pro-democracy Optical Store Owner: "We Will Go Even Further in the Future"
Part 1/2
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/26931
Part 2/2
Mr Chiu, owner of Hong Ming Optical which offers free eyeglasses to pro-democracy students, graduated from the Optometry Department of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (#PolyU).
He started participating in social movement since the anti-Express Rail-link protest against the demolition of the Choi Yuen Village in 2008. “I was moved by the prostrating walk [by the protesters].”
After that, he joined the protest against national education and the 2014 umbrella revolution. When he was asked if society matters a lot to him, he replied immediately, “No, the society is not that important to me, but I can’t stay silent and do nothing.”
The pro-democracy posters and the promotional sticker of “Lost in the Fumes", a 2017-documentary about the localist icon Edward Leung, in the shop are Mr Chiu's answers.
During the interview, Mr Chiu mentioned he had helped in the election campaign of two localist groups "Hong Kong Indigenous" and "Youngspiration" in 2016 Legislative Election.
After Edward Leung, the spokeperson of "Hong Kong Indigenous" was jailed, Mr Chiu felt depressed and asked, “why did the youth have to suffer that? Why couldn't they be rewarded after putting so much effort?”
Just when Mr Chiu lamented that he might be the last generation of Hongkongers, Mr.Chiu changed his mind during the 2019 pro-democracy movement. “I thought the youths nowadays might have been brainwashed [by the authorities] and singing the national anthem," Mr Chiu said, "until I saw those 12 or 13-year-old kids... They were skinny and much shorter than me, but they stood in front of me [during protests].”
"I tried to persuade them to leave, but I failed. Then I have to stand in front of them," Mr Chiu said.
Mr Chiu has more than 50 friends being charged during the pro-democracy movement. That is why he always attends hearings. While Mr Chiu has a strong and muscular built, he cannot help but weeps bitterly in court. In order not to disturb others, he always sits at the last row.
While many professionals seem to have plans to leave Hong Kong, Mr Chiu was asked if he has thought about that. Mr Chiu jokingly replies, “Does working holiday count?” He then gave a serious answer, "Never."
Source: InMedia #Nov22
https://bit.ly/3kRn6Gv
#YellowStore #HongMingOptical #LostintheFumes #HongKongProtests
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From Street Protests to Funding Eyeglasses and Medical Support: Resistance Goes On in Hong Kong
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Hong Ming Optical wrote its Facebook, “It is free to get the right pair of glasses to see the world clearly. Don’t confound…
From Street Protests to Funding Eyeglasses and Medical Support: Resistance Goes On in Hong Kong
Part 1/2
Hong Ming Optical wrote its Facebook, “It is free to get the right pair of glasses to see the world clearly. Don’t confound…