Screentalks and Panel Discussions
The Hong Kong Film Festival (UK) places a strong emphasis on promoting cultural exchanges and fostering cross-cultural understanding. Therefore, we highly value opportunities that facilitate the exchange of ideas among our audience, filmmakers, and other experts. To date, we have successfully organised more than 60 post-screening events, predominantly Q&A sessions and panel discussions. Our speakers have ranged from directors and producers to critics and scholars.
Panel discussion on Hong Kong's deteriorating artistic freedom with Lam Sum, Kiwi Chow and Crystal Wong (from 2nd left), moderated by Mo Lai (1st left).
Director Kiwi Chow met the audience after screening of SAY I DO TO ME 1人婚禮, moderated by Hong Kong filmmaker Mo Lai.
Panel discussion on Taiwan and Hong Kong documentaries with Dr. Chen Pin-chuan (Director of Cultural Division Taipei Representative Office in the UK, 3rd left), Tammy Cheung (London-based Hong Kong documentary filmmaker, 3rd right), Dr. Victor Fan (Senior Lecturer, King's College London, 2nd left).
Panel discussion in collaboration with Amnesty International UK with some filmmakers involved in shorts programmed for POST-APOCALYPTIC HONG KONG.
PING PONG 乒乓 female lead Lucy Sheen sharing her experience. Session moderated by Dr. Victor Fan of King's College London.
Director Leong Po-chih attended post-screening talk of PING PONG 乒乓 through video conferencing.
A dialogue between Tammy Cheung, director of RICE DISTRIBUTION 平安米, and Huang Ting-fu, director NAIL 指月記. Talk hosted by Dr. Fraser Elliott of the University of Edinburgh.
Dr Fraser Elliott of the University of Edinburgh talked to THE DISPUTE director Freddie Chan after the Edinburgh screening of short film programme THE INBETWEENERS 短片集：不港不英.
Director Stanley Kwan talks about his queer classic LAN YU 藍宇.
THE BATTLE OF ORGREAVE artist Jeremy Deller sharing about his film at the talk "Art as a Dissident Form".
A dialogue between BLUE ISLAND 憂鬱之島 director Chan Tze-woon and THE BATTLE OF ORGREAVE artist Jeremy Deller, moderated by BFI's Hyun Jin Cho.
Members of the audience were keen to ask questions at a post-screening session.
Picture taken after the panel discussion held at Amnesty International UK on press freedom. Panel hosted by Nabila Hanson (AIUK Country Coordinator for China and Taiwan, on right) and Howard Zhang (Editor and Head of Service for BBC News Chinese on left) were a speaker.