An Intersectional Lens: Everyday Racism and Sexism - Short Film Screening
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18:30 Registration
18:45 Opening Remarks
18:50 Movie screenings
19:15 Post-screening discussion
20:30 Program Ends
ASHK member price: HKD80
Non-member price: HKD100
Students and Seniors price: HKD40
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This event will screen three films that highlight the ongoing issue of racism and sexism in Hong Kong. These films are based on true events and explore the experiences of individuals from diverse backgrounds, highlighting the intersectionality of race, gender, and class. The term intersectionality explores how multiple identities interact to create unique patterns of oppression or discrimination, as well as advantage or privilege. We seek to spark conversations that can promote understanding, empathy and everyday actions to make Hong Kong more inclusive and a place where everyone feels they can belong.
講你呀! Ey You
Screened for the first time in Hong Kong in this event, this film shows a young mixed-race couple experiencing street harassment from a stranger one evening while they are walking. Please note this film contains some strong language.
Bun Mui ?
This film is a testimony of a Bangladeshi-heritage, Hong Kong-born and raised young woman and part of a series of storytelling videos that Resolve released in 2018 in a campaign on everyday racism, in collaboration with Rights Exposure Project.
We Don’t Dance for Nothing
This is a short of a longer film that is a visual re-imaging of true memories shared by Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, Trapped by her servitude, the protagonist plans to break free of the city and run wild, towards her dreams of independence, love, and true motherhood.
Following the film screening, an interactive panel discussion will be held with some of the filmmakers and community which will then be open to questions and answers from the audience.
Speakers:
Christine Vicera (moderator) is Co-founder and Director of be/longing, a community arts-for-education lab that harnesses the transformative power of storytelling to cultivate and co-create cultures of inclusion for Hong Kong's ethnically-diverse communities. At HKUST, she is part of Navigating Belonging, and teaches courses on literature and cultural studies at HKBU’s College for International Education. Sisig and Puchero (2021), the documentary short she co-directed, was screened at the 2021 Southeast Asia x Seattle Film Festival. She is working on a collection of poetry and illustrations, Home Remedies for Guilt and Grief.
Lamia Sreya Rahman (panelist) is a social justice champion dedicated to serving marginalized communities in Hong Kong. As an Appointed Member of the Committee on the Promotion of Racial Harmony, she advocates for policy changes to promote accessibility to work and education for ethnic minorities. Lamia founded Seekr, a social tech start-up that empowers visually impaired people (VIP) to regain their independence. She also teaches legal studies to ethnic minorities and migrant domestic workers. She is the first Hong Kong-born Bangladeshi to complete her Juris Doctor studies in Hong Kong.
Manisha Wijesinghe (panelist) is a registered attorney at law at the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, with expertise over 10 years in the human rights sector. She is the executive director of HELP for Domestic Workers, a charity empowering migrant domestic workers to gain access to justice and receive fair and equal treatment under the law in Hong Kong. For her service, in 2021, she was awarded by AmCham Women of Influence Awards in the category of Champion of Disadvantaged Groups and Minorities and 2022 winner of Tatler’s inaugural Front & Female Awards.
Nicola Fan (panelist) is a Hong Kong-based graphic designer and award-winning film-maker, and Director for commercials, documentaries, narrative films, motion-graphics. She was 1 of 50 selected filmmakers to participate in Werner Herzog’s 2021 Film Accelerator Labs. The short documentary she created there, The Island Lives, was selected for 2022 Cannes Court Métrage. Her narrative short film Daffodil, is now available on Amazon Prime Video. It was an official selection at the 2020 Vancouver Asian Film Festival. Her first feature documentary, She Objects was the official selection at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival Hong Kong.
Stefanos Tai (panelist) is a Chinese–Greek–American filmmaker. In 2022 he released his debut feature: “We Don’t Dance for Nothing”. He’s screened at Tribeca, BAM, Palm Springs, and has been recognized by Asia Society, the United Nations, and several universities. Previously, he was a Tribeca Film Fellow, participated in the Stowe Story Labs, and has received support for underrepresented filmmakers at DCTV. He is also an alum of the Google Creative Lab, and directs branded content globally.
Puja Kapai (concluding remarks) is an Associate Professor, Convenor of the Women’s Studies Research Centre and Director of the Social Justice Summer Internship Programme at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. Her expertise lies in human rights law, especially equality and minority rights. Professor Kapai’s teaching, research and social justice advocacy focuses on the rights of marginalized communities in relation to gender, race, religion, sexuality, citizenship, using an intersectional framework. She has received many recognitions for her work, such as most recently the 2021 Global Pluralism Award.
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Miller Theater, Asia Society Hong Kong Center