{"id":3883,"date":"2017-05-02T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T03:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2017-05-02T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T03:27:49","slug":"film-festivals-and-antarctic-cinemas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/2017\/05\/02\/film-festivals-and-antarctic-cinemas\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Festivals and Antarctic Cinemas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After successfully adapting to life in Hong Kong, I was struck suddenly with a whole new world to adapt to; Film Festival Culture. The Festival, the whole reason we were in Hong Kong in the first place, was a crazy environment unlike anything else I have ever experienced. My days were suddenly filled with endless train hopping and new adventures as we tried to find all the cinemas for different screenings. We were warned before we left how draining watching 4 movies a day was, but it\u2019s something that cannot be truly understood until you\u2019ve sat through 5 hours of observational documentaries and still have another screening to get through. Something else we were warned about was how cold the cinemas are. You\u2019ve never experienced true public embarrassment until you\u2019ve put a pair of pants over your clothes in the middle of a packed cinema with hundreds of watching eyes; even better when you have to strip off at the end of the movie to survive the humidity outside. In all seriousness though, the festival was amazing. While it\u2019s a struggle to watch 4 movies in a day, it\u2019s also a routine that grows on you quite quickly, and I know it will be sorely missed when we have to leave.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Megan Oxenham,\u00a0<\/em><em>Bachelor of Creative Arts (Screen) student participating in the \u201cEast Asian Film Industry Engagement Project\u201d in April 2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read Megan&#8217;s first post <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/a-week-in-hong-kong\/\">here <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3900\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3900 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/05\/Photo-1-for-2nd-blog-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ticket from the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3901\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3901 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/05\/Photo-3-for-2nd-blog-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Items from the Ticket from the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After successfully adapting to life in Hong Kong, I was struck suddenly with a whole new world to adapt to; Film Festival Culture. 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