[ Lemna ] Community Screening of “My Voice My Life Revisited”

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Community Screening of “My Voice My Life Revisited”

A Film By Oscar-winning Documentary Filmmaker Ruby Yang

Date: 19 Nov 2022
Time: 15:30-16:30
Ticket: Free (min charge of one drink)
Venue: (Lemna of the alchemist) G/F, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
Registration: https://forms.gle/KoKfuvFUQZqLqbR79

“My Voice My Life Revisited”

A Production of Chang Ai Media Project Ltd. Lee Hysan Foundation 60min; Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snS6bmfBmhU

About “My Voice My Life Revisited”

My Voice, My Life followed classes of students from three high schools for underprivileged kids and one school for the visually impaired as they embarked on a voyage of self-discovery through taking part in a musical production. The director explores Hong Kong’s education system in the form of a documentary. Dividing students into different groups of schools according to their grades, makes the students being despised, labeled, and marginalized because of their lower grades. Six years later, what kinds of lives are they leading now? My Voice, My Life Revisited goes in search of four of those students, charting their transformation and how they have grown over these past few years, as well as the challenges they are facing today. Director Yang decided to use clips from “My Voice My Life” while editing “My Voice My Life Revisited”, to make it become an independent work. Let the audience who have never enjoyed the previous film, know the changes of the protagonists.

About Director & Producer

Ruby Yang is a noted filmmaker whose work in documentary and dramatic film has earned her an Academy Award, two Academy nominations, and numerous other international awards, including an Emmy, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, and the Global Health Council Media Award. In May 2019, she received Artist of the Year in Film at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards.

Yang lived and worked in San Francisco for many years, relocated to Beijing in 2004, and now lives in Hong Kong and Hawaii. She was appointed by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) as Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities in 2013, and began teaching the master-level documentary course for the students at HKU JMSC. From 2015-2019, she headed the Hong Kong Documentary Initiative at HKU, aiming to nurture the next generation of documentary filmmakers in the region. Yang is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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