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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.
⬇️⬇️⬇️Watch
(English subtitles available)
Source: Jack Dawson’s Facebook
Written by: Hong Kong Echo
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Film Censorship Ordinance Amended in HK, as Pro-China Lawmaker Claims a Hong Kong Film is Toxic to Teenagers
October 27, 2021 marks the final meeting of the Legislative Council after the extension of its terms. The last item on the agenda was the 2021 Film Censorship Ordinance Amendment Bill.
As only 5 councillors expressed their view, the legislation process took only 45 minutes to have the bill passed.
The bill authorises the #FilmCensorshipAuthority to check whether a film violates the national security law. It also allows the Chief Secretary of Administration to withdraw already-issued screening permits.
At the meeting, a pro-China lawmaker Priscilla Leung Mei-Fun comdemned a 2015-Hong Kong film called Ten Years for "hating the country", " romanticising hunger strike and self-immolaton", as well as "inciting Hong Kong independence".
She claimed that Hong Kong had lost "several generations of teenagers" and she hoped to remove what she called "toxic movies" by the censorship law.
Ng Ka-Leung, one of the producers of Ten years replied to media inquiry. He said that Hong Kong people have adequate ability to make judgement and logical thinking skills to proces the so called controversial content of the film.
He added, when some people manipulate power and suppress other people's thought, this is much more toxic not only to teenagers but also everyone in society.
He reiterated that a legal movie exhibition provides a reflective space and this has nothing to do with toxicity.
The producer agrees with Leung regarding the fact that "Hong Kong has lost a few generations of teenagers," but he emphasises that the imbalanced power and unmonitored system are the reasons to the loss of trust in the authority.
[Editor note: Ten Years is a Hong Kong dystopian speculative fictional film which depicts the deterioration human rights and freedom in future Hong Kong.]
#TenYears #Movie #NSL #LegCo #LeungMeiFun #Censorship #HongKongCinema
Source: WhatsNews Media #Oct29
https://t.me/WhatsNewsHK/2506
Film Censorship Ordinance Amended in HK, as Pro-China Lawmaker Claims a Hong Kong Film is Toxic to Teenagers
October 27, 2021 marks the final meeting of the Legislative Council after the extension of its terms. The last item on the agenda was the 2021 Film Censorship Ordinance Amendment Bill.
As only 5 councillors expressed their view, the legislation process took only 45 minutes to have the bill passed.
The bill authorises the #FilmCensorshipAuthority to check whether a film violates the national security law. It also allows the Chief Secretary of Administration to withdraw already-issued screening permits.
At the meeting, a pro-China lawmaker Priscilla Leung Mei-Fun comdemned a 2015-Hong Kong film called Ten Years for "hating the country", " romanticising hunger strike and self-immolaton", as well as "inciting Hong Kong independence".
She claimed that Hong Kong had lost "several generations of teenagers" and she hoped to remove what she called "toxic movies" by the censorship law.
Ng Ka-Leung, one of the producers of Ten years replied to media inquiry. He said that Hong Kong people have adequate ability to make judgement and logical thinking skills to proces the so called controversial content of the film.
He added, when some people manipulate power and suppress other people's thought, this is much more toxic not only to teenagers but also everyone in society.
He reiterated that a legal movie exhibition provides a reflective space and this has nothing to do with toxicity.
The producer agrees with Leung regarding the fact that "Hong Kong has lost a few generations of teenagers," but he emphasises that the imbalanced power and unmonitored system are the reasons to the loss of trust in the authority.
[Editor note: Ten Years is a Hong Kong dystopian speculative fictional film which depicts the deterioration human rights and freedom in future Hong Kong.]
#TenYears #Movie #NSL #LegCo #LeungMeiFun #Censorship #HongKongCinema
Source: WhatsNews Media #Oct29
https://t.me/WhatsNewsHK/2506
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導演伍嘉良笑指邏輯滑稽]
近日，立法會迅速三讀通過《2021 年電影檢查（修訂）條例草案》。修訂草案賦權電檢處檢查員審視電影上映是否不利國家安全，又賦權政務司司長撤銷對以往的電影所發出的許可。大會中梁美芬議員直指《十年》「仇恨自己國家（中國）」「浪漫化絕食、自焚」「煽動港獨」。慨嘆香港已失去了數代年輕人，希望杜絕《十年》這種「荼毒年輕人」的電影。
本報就此專訪《十年》中《本地蛋》的導演，全片其中一位監製伍嘉良先生。
對於梁議員指《十年》「荼毒年輕人」，他認為香港人有…
導演伍嘉良笑指邏輯滑稽]
近日，立法會迅速三讀通過《2021 年電影檢查（修訂）條例草案》。修訂草案賦權電檢處檢查員審視電影上映是否不利國家安全，又賦權政務司司長撤銷對以往的電影所發出的許可。大會中梁美芬議員直指《十年》「仇恨自己國家（中國）」「浪漫化絕食、自焚」「煽動港獨」。慨嘆香港已失去了數代年輕人，希望杜絕《十年》這種「荼毒年輕人」的電影。
本報就此專訪《十年》中《本地蛋》的導演，全片其中一位監製伍嘉良先生。
對於梁議員指《十年》「荼毒年輕人」，他認為香港人有…
"Ten Years" Director Organizes #HongKongFilmFestival in the UK
Ka-Leung Ng, a Hong Kong director who produced the dytopian film #TenYears, has moved to the UK for almost a year; however, he did not announce his whereabouts until September 2021. When asked about the reason, Ng said, "I don't even know how to explain."
Being away for a year, #KaLeungNg still has his mind on Hong Kong, like many other Hong Kong people. Therefore, he organized the 1st Hong Kong Film Festival (UK) with fellows. It was held between March and April in #London, #Manchester, #Bristol and #Edinburgh.
Among his 16 film productions, there are videos related to social movements which are not allowed to be screened in Hong Kong. However, even more are small-scaled independent movie productions that even Hongkongers may not know them.
He knows that it is difficult to produce a movie freely in Hong Kong's current situation. Therefore, he hopes to promote Hong Kong movies in the #UK in various areas, topics and presentation ways throughout the Film Festival. He added, "Even if Hongkongers are emotionally eager to watch some of the movies, we have the responsibility to promote a breadth of movies. Therefore, more people can understand Hong Kong culture and stories... How Hong Kong films move further depends on how we continue to promote overseas."
Since people in the UK would like to watch HK movies but he does not have relevant experience, he and #ChingWong, with the aid of other people such as local film festival hosts and professors for HK movies, organise the event, titled "Rupture and Rebirth". "Rupture" can be understood as the change of not only interpersonal relationships due to imprisonment and being apart, but also the identity of #HKers and movie cultures. "Rebirth" indicates hope -- people try to find a way out of a bad situation. "Good artworks can still be seen in bad times". He emphasises that he does not intend to choose banned movies to screen, "when a place becomes abnormal, normal actions will be treated as weird".
Source: Inmedia #Mar12
https://bit.ly/3MLcRTa
#HongKongCinema
Ka-Leung Ng, a Hong Kong director who produced the dytopian film #TenYears, has moved to the UK for almost a year; however, he did not announce his whereabouts until September 2021. When asked about the reason, Ng said, "I don't even know how to explain."
Being away for a year, #KaLeungNg still has his mind on Hong Kong, like many other Hong Kong people. Therefore, he organized the 1st Hong Kong Film Festival (UK) with fellows. It was held between March and April in #London, #Manchester, #Bristol and #Edinburgh.
Among his 16 film productions, there are videos related to social movements which are not allowed to be screened in Hong Kong. However, even more are small-scaled independent movie productions that even Hongkongers may not know them.
He knows that it is difficult to produce a movie freely in Hong Kong's current situation. Therefore, he hopes to promote Hong Kong movies in the #UK in various areas, topics and presentation ways throughout the Film Festival. He added, "Even if Hongkongers are emotionally eager to watch some of the movies, we have the responsibility to promote a breadth of movies. Therefore, more people can understand Hong Kong culture and stories... How Hong Kong films move further depends on how we continue to promote overseas."
Since people in the UK would like to watch HK movies but he does not have relevant experience, he and #ChingWong, with the aid of other people such as local film festival hosts and professors for HK movies, organise the event, titled "Rupture and Rebirth". "Rupture" can be understood as the change of not only interpersonal relationships due to imprisonment and being apart, but also the identity of #HKers and movie cultures. "Rebirth" indicates hope -- people try to find a way out of a bad situation. "Good artworks can still be seen in bad times". He emphasises that he does not intend to choose banned movies to screen, "when a place becomes abnormal, normal actions will be treated as weird".
Source: Inmedia #Mar12
https://bit.ly/3MLcRTa
#HongKongCinema
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【專訪】移英後創辦香港電影節 《十年》導演伍嘉良：想繼續講香港故事 | 獨媒報導 | 獨立媒體
（獨媒報導）「你去咗英國一年？但你舊年九月先公布自己離開⋯⋯」伍嘉良不好意思的回應：「係，差唔多一年⋯⋯呢啲嘢有時唔知道點開口。」 離開了一年，但和許多人一樣，伍嘉良心裡還是記掛著有關香港的事，例如電影。而既然放不下，不如想辦法在外地延續下去。籌備半年，伍嘉良和《十年》另一編劇黃靜等人創辦的第一屆香港電影節（英國），終敲定在3月至4月，於倫敦、曼徹