A dozen Hong Kong films, cutting across genres, themes and sensibilities, claimed the spotlight at the recently held 28th Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy. Yasmine Chan reports. Hong Kong film director Yuen Woo-ping won the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 28th FEFF. (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) For nearly three decades,…
Clashes over the screening of a controversial, award-winning Hong Kong coming-of-age documentary at an Italian film festival have escalated, with the director accusing the secondary school at the centre of the dispute of “blatantly lying” about the arrangement for the showing. Acclaimed filmmaker Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting slammed Ying Wa Girls’ School over the documentary’s screening…
A student who featured in a controversial Hong Kong documentary has said she did not give her consent to it being shown at an Italian film festival, reiterating her objection to it being screened publicly. Ah Ling, one of six students who featured in the coming-of-age documentary To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self, said she was only…
An award-winning documentary capturing the lives of six girls over 10 years by Hong Kong director Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting will be screened at a film festival in Italy, three years after it was pulled from local cinemas due to a lack of consent from interviewees. To My Nineteen-year-old Self, which centres on Ying Wa Girls’…