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The film Ten Years which accurately predicted Today’s Hong Kong
(13 Jul) "Ten Years" is a dystopian film produced in Hong Kong and released in 2015. It tells five speculative tales of the state of Hong Kong in 2025 as the Chinese government tightens its grip on the Special Administrative Region.
One short story is "Local Egg", which provides a glimpse into how a grocery storekeeper and his son, a member of the Youth Guard, grapples with the insidious changes enforced by the government. Sam, the storekeeper, questions the Youth Guard when they tell him that his label, "local eggs", is on the censor list but relabeling them as "Hong Kong eggs" is allowed.
Ming, Sam's son, provides a reply slip for him to sign later that day. He reads it aloud, "Youth Guard Commander is authorized to assign your son covert operations. Parents are not necessarily informed." He expresses concern for Ming warns him against blindly following the Youth Guard's orders.
The next day, Sam discovers the Youth Guards pelting the closed storefront of a bookshop with eggs. Among them is Ming, standing with a closed carton of untouched eggs. Sam asks what he is doing and Ming responds, "I'm obliged to come, I don't know what I should do." As Sam leads Ming to help clean up, the bookshop keeper introduces himself and reveals that Ming was the one who warned him that the Youth Guard would come to vandalise his business.
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Source: Jack Dawson’s Facebook
Written by: Hong Kong Echo
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The film Ten Years which accurately predicted Today’s Hong Kong
(13 Jul) "Ten Years" is a dystopian film produced in Hong Kong and released in 2015. It tells five speculative tales of the state of Hong Kong in 2025 as the Chinese government tightens its grip on the Special Administrative Region.
One short story is "Local Egg", which provides a glimpse into how a grocery storekeeper and his son, a member of the Youth Guard, grapples with the insidious changes enforced by the government. Sam, the storekeeper, questions the Youth Guard when they tell him that his label, "local eggs", is on the censor list but relabeling them as "Hong Kong eggs" is allowed.
Ming, Sam's son, provides a reply slip for him to sign later that day. He reads it aloud, "Youth Guard Commander is authorized to assign your son covert operations. Parents are not necessarily informed." He expresses concern for Ming warns him against blindly following the Youth Guard's orders.
The next day, Sam discovers the Youth Guards pelting the closed storefront of a bookshop with eggs. Among them is Ming, standing with a closed carton of untouched eggs. Sam asks what he is doing and Ming responds, "I'm obliged to come, I don't know what I should do." As Sam leads Ming to help clean up, the bookshop keeper introduces himself and reveals that Ming was the one who warned him that the Youth Guard would come to vandalise his business.
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(English subtitles available)
Source: Jack Dawson’s Facebook
Written by: Hong Kong Echo
#TenYears #HongKongMovie #Accurate #China #Control
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HK Protest-themed Movie Receives Multiple Nominations in Taiwan's #GoldenHorseAwards but Cannot Be Screened At Home
"May You Stay Forever Young" is a Hong Kong film which portrays the "suicide rescue team" during the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement.
The movie is nominated for Best New Director and the Best Film Editing in the 58th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards.
On October 11, 2021, the film publishes its first promotional video. At the end of the clip, there is no screening date but the line "Cannot be screened in Hong Kong".
The trailer is 2 mins 33 seconds long, filled with protest related images. The video starts with a confrontation between police and citizens on Queensway and ends with a scene filled with umbrellas. Images of guns and incendiaries are also featured in the clip.
#AntiELAB #Protest #HongKongMovie #Taiwan #Censorship
Source: Stand News #Oct14
https://thestandnews.page.link/Arx5aymZG6KMJt9y9
"May You Stay Forever Young" is a Hong Kong film which portrays the "suicide rescue team" during the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement.
The movie is nominated for Best New Director and the Best Film Editing in the 58th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards.
On October 11, 2021, the film publishes its first promotional video. At the end of the clip, there is no screening date but the line "Cannot be screened in Hong Kong".
The trailer is 2 mins 33 seconds long, filled with protest related images. The video starts with a confrontation between police and citizens on Queensway and ends with a scene filled with umbrellas. Images of guns and incendiaries are also featured in the clip.
#AntiELAB #Protest #HongKongMovie #Taiwan #Censorship
Source: Stand News #Oct14
https://thestandnews.page.link/Arx5aymZG6KMJt9y9
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Hong Kong Directors of protest-themed movie win 2021 NETPAC award
#Protest #HongKongMovie #Taiwan #Censorship #FilmAmendmentBill
Source: Stand News; #Nov24
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Hong Kong Directors of protest-themed movie win 2021 NETPAC award
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Source: Stand News; #Nov24
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Hong Kong Directors of protest-themed movie win 2021 NETPAC award
The Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival and Asian Film Promotion Alliance presented this year’s #NETPAC Award to two young directors from Hong Kong, Yum-hap (ä»»äż ) and Lam-sum (林森) on November 24.
Yum and Lam are directors of “May You Stay Forever Young”, a protest-themed movie that took the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong as its backdrop. The movie portrays a group of young people in Hong Kong who gathered voluntarily in a bid to rescue those who attempted to sacrifice themselves for democracy and suicide.
The movie has earlier been shortlisted for the 58th Taiwan #GoldenHorseAwards and is running for the best new director and best editing on Saturday night (November 27).
The production team of “May You Stay Forever Young” was elated to be awarded. Amidst fading freedom in Hong Kong, the team sighed that the movie was first “impossible” to produce and now “impossible” to release.
“Many people have contributed to this movie, but they have to stay nameless and remain in the dark in order to carry on their fight for freedom,” the team added. “The place where this movie is allowed to screen is where freedom stands.”
The production team expressed gratitude to the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (#NETPAC) and they also thanked Taiwan for freedom.
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HK Protest-themed Movie Receives Multiple Nominations in Taiwan's #GoldenHorseAwards but Cannot Be Screened At Home
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/31322
Advocacy Group Campaigns for #Screening Films about Hongkongers' Fight for Democracy on #Netflix
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/31427
#Protest #HongKongMovie #Taiwan #Censorship #FilmAmendmentBill
Source: Stand News; #Nov24
https://thestandnews.page.link/huRMKo1C61tbDTqa6
Hong Kong Directors of protest-themed movie win 2021 NETPAC award
The Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival and Asian Film Promotion Alliance presented this year’s #NETPAC Award to two young directors from Hong Kong, Yum-hap (ä»»äż ) and Lam-sum (林森) on November 24.
Yum and Lam are directors of “May You Stay Forever Young”, a protest-themed movie that took the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong as its backdrop. The movie portrays a group of young people in Hong Kong who gathered voluntarily in a bid to rescue those who attempted to sacrifice themselves for democracy and suicide.
The movie has earlier been shortlisted for the 58th Taiwan #GoldenHorseAwards and is running for the best new director and best editing on Saturday night (November 27).
The production team of “May You Stay Forever Young” was elated to be awarded. Amidst fading freedom in Hong Kong, the team sighed that the movie was first “impossible” to produce and now “impossible” to release.
“Many people have contributed to this movie, but they have to stay nameless and remain in the dark in order to carry on their fight for freedom,” the team added. “The place where this movie is allowed to screen is where freedom stands.”
The production team expressed gratitude to the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (#NETPAC) and they also thanked Taiwan for freedom.
Read related articles
HK Protest-themed Movie Receives Multiple Nominations in Taiwan's #GoldenHorseAwards but Cannot Be Screened At Home
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/31322
Advocacy Group Campaigns for #Screening Films about Hongkongers' Fight for Democracy on #Netflix
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/31427
#Protest #HongKongMovie #Taiwan #Censorship #FilmAmendmentBill
Source: Stand News; #Nov24
https://thestandnews.page.link/huRMKo1C61tbDTqa6
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"May You Stay Forever Young" is a Hong Kong film which portrays the "suicide rescue team" during the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement.
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"May You Stay Forever Young" is a Hong Kong film which portrays the "suicide rescue team" during the 2019 Anti-ELAB movement.
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New York to Hold World's first public screening of Hong Kong protest documentary “Revolution of our Times”
Directed by Hong Kong director #KiwiChow, the documentary “Revolution of our Times” chronicled the months-long pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020 following the Government’s attempt to promulgate the extradition law.
The documentary offered an up-close and personal account of what happened on the protest frontlines.
First debuted in a surprise screeening in Cannes Film Festiv in July 2021, the controversial film soon found resonance in Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Festival and Japan’s Filmex in subsequent months.
On November 10, 2021, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2021 (#IDFA) also announced the screening of #RevolutionOfOurTimes under the Festival's Best of Fests selection.
A Hongkonger residing in #Netherlands told reporter that many audiences sobbed as they watched the film and the rustling sound of tissue paper could be heard throughout the screening.
He carried on saying that at the end of second screening, audiences applauded incessantly for nearly half a minute to show their respect. Many of them are indeed locals.
Some audiences even chanted protest slogan, “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Time” as the film ends.
The documentary is also set for its first public screening in New York City from December 10 to 18, with more screenings in other US cities to be announced.
#KiwiChow #HongKongMovie #NationalSecurityLaw #Censorship #Art
Source: Stand News, #Nov20
https://thestandnews.page.link/uV5RWx1AC3kA6Dr48
New York to Hold World's first public screening of Hong Kong protest documentary “Revolution of our Times”
Directed by Hong Kong director #KiwiChow, the documentary “Revolution of our Times” chronicled the months-long pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020 following the Government’s attempt to promulgate the extradition law.
The documentary offered an up-close and personal account of what happened on the protest frontlines.
First debuted in a surprise screeening in Cannes Film Festiv in July 2021, the controversial film soon found resonance in Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Festival and Japan’s Filmex in subsequent months.
On November 10, 2021, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2021 (#IDFA) also announced the screening of #RevolutionOfOurTimes under the Festival's Best of Fests selection.
A Hongkonger residing in #Netherlands told reporter that many audiences sobbed as they watched the film and the rustling sound of tissue paper could be heard throughout the screening.
He carried on saying that at the end of second screening, audiences applauded incessantly for nearly half a minute to show their respect. Many of them are indeed locals.
Some audiences even chanted protest slogan, “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Time” as the film ends.
The documentary is also set for its first public screening in New York City from December 10 to 18, with more screenings in other US cities to be announced.
#KiwiChow #HongKongMovie #NationalSecurityLaw #Censorship #Art
Source: Stand News, #Nov20
https://thestandnews.page.link/uV5RWx1AC3kA6Dr48