It\u2019s the day before the nine-hour flight to Hong Kong for its annual international film festival and I am greatly anticipating the experience ahead. In preparation for the trip, aside from packing the essentials and many read-throughs of the travel itinerary, I have been attending meetings with the study group, of which I am one of 19 students. In these meetings I have learnt about the history of the Hong Kong, it\u2019s screen culture and the lifestyle of its population.<\/p>\n
As a group we have also had some screenings throughout the summer break of a selection of Hong Kong films originating from its \u201cgolden age\u201d (the 1990\u2019s). A personal favourite of the screening was A Bullet in the Head (1990) an ultra-violent thriller set in the 1960\u2019s with reference in part to the 1989 incident in the Tiananmen Square. I also loved the classic Wong Kar-Wai film, In the Mood for Love (2000), which I watched on my own.<\/p>\n
Aside from the watching some films in preparation, we also had to select the films we are seeing at the film festival. We were given a default list of 20 screenings spread over 12 days which we were allowed to alter as pleased. While I did note a few recommendations, I found the current selection adequate for what I wanted to see. I only swapped one film and added an extra one from the default selection. I\u2019d been told by students who were going to Hong Kong a second time that it isn\u2019t uncommon to swap tickets with others or purchase more once we\u2019ve arrived, so I\u2019m expecting the selection I see aren\u2019t set in stone just yet.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m really curious to attend the screenings in Hong Kong, and to see the screen reflect the its tensions, society and attractions of my surroundings.<\/p>\n
Milly Farmer, Bachelor of Communication and Professional Writing student <\/strong>has participated in East Asian Film Industry Engagement Program in March 2019. The program is funded by the New Colombo Plan by the Australian Government<\/strong> <\/b><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s the day before the nine-hour flight to Hong Kong for its annual international film festival and I am greatly anticipating the experience ahead. In preparation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1810,"featured_media":5376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,1286],"tags":[40,41,1751,188,244,246,349,366,418,487],"class_list":["post-5371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-experience-blogs","category-outbound-student-experiences","category-short-term-program","tag-asia","tag-asian-film","tag-bachelor-of-communication-and-professional-writing","tag-film","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-international-film-festival-hkiff","tag-ncp","tag-new-colombo-plan-scholarship","tag-scholarship","tag-travel"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}