May 16 – 14:30
King’s College London, Strand Campus
Join five incrediblly talented short and feature-filmmakers from Asia for an open discussion on their craft, their professional lives, and their diasporic experience. They will share invaluable insights and offer a Q&A with the attendees. Later in the evening, you can also join us for a screening of their short films.
The panel consists of:
Victor Fan (director of Desire/Sleep), a Hong Kong scholar and filmmaker based in London. His research centres on Asia as method, Buddhist studies, Sinophone media and Queer/Trans studies. He made several short films dealing with national history and Hong Kong identity.
Lilly Zhuang (director of Here), an award-winning, Chinese-Dutch filmmaker based in London. Working across documentary and fiction, Lilly centres her interdisciplinary creative and academic work around the renegotiation of the diasporic nature of identity and belonging
John Peter Cadiz Chua (director of No More Crying), a Chinese-Filipino filmmaker and writer based in Hong Kong. His work centres stories from the Lannang community.
Zhou Zhenyu (director of Branches from Concrete), a Chinese artist based in Paris, working in film and video installations. His autobiographical films depict landscapes and people that have been overlooked in the modernisation process of contemporary Chinese society.
Viet Vu (director of An Act of Affection and The Eternal Springtime), a Vietnamese filmmaker based in Belgium. Working in experimental cinema, docufiction, and alternative narratives, his films uncover forgotten stories within shifting socio-political contexts, foregrounding queer themes and underrepresented communities.
