{"id":49511,"date":"2024-03-04T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T15:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheflive.co.uk\/?p=49511"},"modified":"2024-03-04T15:50:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T15:50:56","slug":"community-screening-promotes-hong-kong-history-in-broomhall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/community-screening-promotes-hong-kong-history-in-broomhall\/","title":{"rendered":"Community screening promotes Hong Kong history in Broomhall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A film director hopes to have raised interest in Hong Kong\u2019s history in the UK and the rest of the world through her documentary which has been screened in Sheffield. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 2 March, Sheffield Rewater CIC, an organisation supporting those who moved to Sheffield from Hong Kong, hosted the Vanished Archives community screening in the Broomhall Centre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The screening featured the documentary film which is about the 1967 leftist riots in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the documentary was set in Cantonese, the organisers hoped to be more inclusive by introducing real-time translation services for those who do not speak the language.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organisers also welcomed participants to bring friends from different ethnic groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A  spokesperson of Sheffield Rewater CIC said: \u201cIt is more important than ever to learn and reflect on history to sharpen our critical thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Community Screening and post Screening sharing<br>Tickets<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pqTPOQY9js\">https:\/\/t.co\/pqTPOQY9js<\/a><br><br>It is a valued documentary of 1967 riot in Hong Kong. But !<br>It is a Hong Kong documentary that was rejected by the Hong Kong International Film Festival 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/1967hongkongriots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#1967hongkongriots<\/a><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CulturalRevolution?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CulturalRevolution<\/a><\/p>&mdash; RE-WATER (@REWATERCIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/REWATERCIC\/status\/1762927594717007921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The director, Connie Lo, talked about her experiences in the post-screening discussion session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said: \u201cI\u2019ve once been to an occasion where I met movie makers from different countries, and some of them claimed that nobody would be interested in watching the local history of Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calvin Tatara, founder of the Museum of Hong Kong group and one of the guest speakers, also had similar thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He shared his views that what happened in Hong Kong could be related to the rest of the world, including here in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: \u201cWe as people who migrated to other countries have the duty to make people interested in the history of our homeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd we could do this by viewing history in the angle of international relationship,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the audiences, June was one of the locals who supported the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was just ignorant to all this. At the time (during the 1967 riots) I was only 13. We only hear part of this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that although Hong Kong was still a British colony in 1967, there was limited information about what actually happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFantastic for me to bear witness to it really.\u201d<br><br>For more information on the film Vanished Archives go to <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/movie\/vanished-archives\/umc.cmc.5ks9mynsgknfb6ieu62vvc18u\">Vanished Archives &#8211; Apple\u00a0TV<\/a> or for information about the organisers see <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/movie\/vanished-archives\/umc.cmc.5ks9mynsgknfb6ieu62vvc18u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rewater_sheffield<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A film director hopes to have raised interest in Hong Kong\u2019s history in the UK and the rest of the world through her documentary which has been screened in Sheffield. 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