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Hong Kong Government Bans Film Screening
Ying E Chi (YEC), a non-profit art organisation that distributes Hong Kong independent films, applied for a 20,000 HKD subsidy from the Wong Tai Sin District Council to hold 3 movie nights to show movies related to Hong Kong's social movement: "Lost in the Fumes", "Yellowing" and "Last Exit to Kai Tak".
However, the application was denied by the government's Home Affairs Department (HAD).
The HAD quoted the the Manual on the Use of District Council Funds that the event will result in a conflict of interest, and it will end up becoming "propaganda for individuals featured in the movies", since the three movies are biographies and documentaries.
Vincent Chui, art director of YEC, said the government requested the names of the movies after their application was submitted. "20,000HKD is not a big amount, but I am not satisfied with the procedure. Our application was initially approved by the council, but they have taken back their words."
According to the manual, funding for projects that has the potential to give excessive credit to an individual, a commercial organisation, a political party shall not get approved. However, the screening of China-made propagandist film The Founding of a Nation (2019) was funded by the Tai Po District Council in the previous term in 2018.
Chui indicated that the YEC had received a phone call from the HAD requesting to change the movies to be screened. Chui disagreed with the HAD's concern of any potential conflict of interest from the event, as the YEC is a non-profit organisation.
Chui also mentioned that the copyright fee only goes to the film directors. Nobody in the YEC will get a cut from the fee.
Source: InMedia #Jun6
#YingEChi #VincentChui #LostintheFumes #NoraLam #HongKongIndie #IndependentFilms #DistrictCouncilor
Hong Kong Government Bans Film Screening
Ying E Chi (YEC), a non-profit art organisation that distributes Hong Kong independent films, applied for a 20,000 HKD subsidy from the Wong Tai Sin District Council to hold 3 movie nights to show movies related to Hong Kong's social movement: "Lost in the Fumes", "Yellowing" and "Last Exit to Kai Tak".
However, the application was denied by the government's Home Affairs Department (HAD).
The HAD quoted the the Manual on the Use of District Council Funds that the event will result in a conflict of interest, and it will end up becoming "propaganda for individuals featured in the movies", since the three movies are biographies and documentaries.
Vincent Chui, art director of YEC, said the government requested the names of the movies after their application was submitted. "20,000HKD is not a big amount, but I am not satisfied with the procedure. Our application was initially approved by the council, but they have taken back their words."
According to the manual, funding for projects that has the potential to give excessive credit to an individual, a commercial organisation, a political party shall not get approved. However, the screening of China-made propagandist film The Founding of a Nation (2019) was funded by the Tai Po District Council in the previous term in 2018.
Chui indicated that the YEC had received a phone call from the HAD requesting to change the movies to be screened. Chui disagreed with the HAD's concern of any potential conflict of interest from the event, as the YEC is a non-profit organisation.
Chui also mentioned that the copyright fee only goes to the film directors. Nobody in the YEC will get a cut from the fee.
Source: InMedia #Jun6
#YingEChi #VincentChui #LostintheFumes #NoraLam #HongKongIndie #IndependentFilms #DistrictCouncilor
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Yuen Long District Councilor to Run in Pro-democracy Camp's Primary
On June 19, Ng Kin-wai, Yuen Long district councilor and member of Tin Shui Wai Connects announced plan to join the Pro-democracy Camp's primary for the Legislative Council election in September. The primaries will be held in July.
On the same list with Ng is Lam Chun, who is currently charged with riotting. Ng has just sold his flat to fund their election campaign. It was a day before the news about the Security Law legislation came out.
Ng said this means Hongkongers cannot back down anymore and should give it all out in this fight, "If our generation refuses to act, the next generation will suffer. As long as we are determined to fight against Communist China, Hong Kong will definitely restitute on one day."
Source: InMedia #Jun20
https://bit.ly/37HQFpb
#NgKinWai #LamChun #TinShuiWaiConnects #DistrictCouncilor #LegCoPrimary
On June 19, Ng Kin-wai, Yuen Long district councilor and member of Tin Shui Wai Connects announced plan to join the Pro-democracy Camp's primary for the Legislative Council election in September. The primaries will be held in July.
On the same list with Ng is Lam Chun, who is currently charged with riotting. Ng has just sold his flat to fund their election campaign. It was a day before the news about the Security Law legislation came out.
Ng said this means Hongkongers cannot back down anymore and should give it all out in this fight, "If our generation refuses to act, the next generation will suffer. As long as we are determined to fight against Communist China, Hong Kong will definitely restitute on one day."
Source: InMedia #Jun20
https://bit.ly/37HQFpb
#NgKinWai #LamChun #TinShuiWaiConnects #DistrictCouncilor #LegCoPrimary