CineCina Film Festival is currently collaborating with Kino Lorber’s virtual cinema for some repertory screenings. This week two documentaries are coming online: “Denise Ho: Becoming Song” and “Hooligan Sparrow”. This double-bill is CineCina’s answer for Disney’s controversial “Mulan”.
By purchasing a ticket to watch at home one of the films in Kino Lorber’s virtual cinema, you’ll be supporting CineCina just as if you were attending a screening at our physical location.
For additional details, please refer to the Faq at the bottom of Kino Lorber’s webpage.
Denise Ho – Becoming The Song (2020) by Sue Williams
The documentary profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on unprecedented, years-long access, the film explores her remarkable journey from commercial Cantopop superstar to outspoken political activist, an artist who has put her life and career on the line to support the determined...
By purchasing a ticket to watch at home one of the films in Kino Lorber’s virtual cinema, you’ll be supporting CineCina just as if you were attending a screening at our physical location.
For additional details, please refer to the Faq at the bottom of Kino Lorber’s webpage.
Denise Ho – Becoming The Song (2020) by Sue Williams
The documentary profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on unprecedented, years-long access, the film explores her remarkable journey from commercial Cantopop superstar to outspoken political activist, an artist who has put her life and career on the line to support the determined...
- 9/12/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
When Nanfu Wang was still a graduate student at NYU film school, she returned to China – where she was born and lived until her mid-twenties – to film human rights activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a. Hooligan Sparrow), as she was chased and harassed across China by uniformed and secret police alike. Wang herself would became a target of government officials trying to halt Haiyan’s campaign to expose how rapists hide behind loopholes in the country’s prostitution laws.
The risks Wang took to secretly shoot “Hooligan Sparrow” became part of the film. When it was shortlisted for Best Documentary at the 2017 Oscars, her family back in China started receiving threatening phone calls and visits from government officials instructing them to tell Wang she needed to stop doing interviews and talking about the issues in the film, which was gaining a higher profile and starting to stream on Netflix.
“After ‘Hooligan Sparrow’ was released,...
The risks Wang took to secretly shoot “Hooligan Sparrow” became part of the film. When it was shortlisted for Best Documentary at the 2017 Oscars, her family back in China started receiving threatening phone calls and visits from government officials instructing them to tell Wang she needed to stop doing interviews and talking about the issues in the film, which was gaining a higher profile and starting to stream on Netflix.
“After ‘Hooligan Sparrow’ was released,...
- 2/2/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
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