Hong Kong Director #JillLi Won Best Documentary in Taiwan's #GoldenHorseAwards

Hong Kong director Jill Li's "Lost Course" receives the Best Documentary at the 57th Golden Horse Award on Nov 21, 2020.

The documemtary follows a grassroot democratic movement the village of Wukan in China over a period of 6 years.

Another documentary from Hong Kong "Taking Back the Legislature" was also among the nominees in the same category.

Hong Kong director Kwok Zune won the Best Live Action Short Film in the same awards, for his film "Night is Young" which depicts the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

Read Kwok's speech here
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/26830

Source: Apple Daily #Nov21
https://bit.ly/3kQwJ8k

#Award #Documentary #LostCourse

#Documentary #WuhanPneumonia
Wuhan medics undercover: 'We were told to lie about Covid-19 outbreak'

//Chinese medics have been filmed undercover for the first time admitting they realised coronavirus could be transmitted between humans but were told by the government to keep quiet.

Senior medics in Wuhan who witnessed some of the first cases of the virus were secretly filmed by a citizen journalist for an ITV documentary.

The medics said they were in no doubt how dangerous the virus was and that they were aware of deaths as early as the end of December 2019.

One said: "Actually, at the end of December or beginning of January, the relative of someone I know died of this virus.

"Many of those living with him were also infected, including people I know."

Another said: "We all felt there shouldn’t be any doubt about human to human transmission."//

Read the full article:
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-01-18/wuhan-medics-undercover-we-were-told-to-lie-about-covid-19-outbreak

Source: itv #Jan18

#Covid19 #CCP

#Arts #FilmAwards
#Documentary about Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Protests Awarded Grand Prize in Taiwan

[Editor's note: The Hong Kong authorities had classified the two documentary films as Category III, calling it "unsuitable" for an audience below 18 years of age. The authorities also demanded a warning to be placed before the films]

Hong Kong protest-related documentaries has won awards across the world.

The award ceremony of the 12th Taiwan International Documentary Festival unveiled on May 6, 2021 in which "Taking Back the Legislature" and "Inside the Red Brick Wall" were awarded Grand Prize for the Chinese-language Documentary Category.

The Jury explained the prize was given for “the capture of passion and contradictions of the insurgency of a people”.

“The Jury wishes to thank the collective communion of the group of filmmakers… for contributing to our understanding of how cinema feeds the conscience and collective memory of the world in our era of overwhelming control and surveillance. ”

The two documentary films capture different moments during the 2019 anti-ELAB protests in Hong Kong.

"Taking back the Legislature" is a documentation of the first instance of an occupation of Hong Kong’s legislature on July 1, 2019, while "Inside the Red Brick Wall" is about the week-long siege of the police on Hong Kong Polytechnic University (#PolyU) in November 2019.

Source: Stand News #May3
https://bit.ly/2SrFYTX

#YingEChi #HongKongCinema #InsidetheRedBrickWall

#China did let people in at some point (#BBC at least), but clearly staged and only specific days at a specific time.
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#Uyghur #Uyghurgenocide #standwithuyghurs #meme #documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmId2ZP3h0c

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Medical Genocide: Hidden Mass Murder in China’s Organ Transplant Industry | #Documentary

China now performs the most organ transplants worldwide yet has few voluntary donors. So what’s the source of these organs?
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