Making it Personal: How to dive into your own films with Rachel Mason and Gina Wong<\/p>\n
Date and Time:
\n4 April 2023 (Tuesday) 10:30 am – 11:30 am (Hong Kong Time) |
\n4 April 2023 (Tuesday) 4:30 am – 5:30 am (Central European Daylight Time) |
\n3 April 2023 (Monday) 7:30 pm-8:30 pm (Pacific Daylight Time)<\/p>\n
Venue: LT2, Sino Building, CUHK or Join us on Zoom<\/p>\n
Speakers:<\/p>\n
Rachel Mason | Director of CIRCUS OF BOOKS (2019)<\/p>\n
Gina Wong | Film producer, founder of PUFF, Experimenta<\/p>\n
Moderator: Katrien Jacobs |Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK<\/p>\n
Registration link: https:\/\/cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk\/webform\/view.php?id=13664974<\/a><\/p>\n Conducted in English. All are welcome. About the speakers:<\/p>\n Rachel Mason is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker with a background in visual art and music. She received an Emmy Nomination for her Netflix Original Documentary CIRCUS OF BOOKS, Executive Produced by Ryan Murphy. The film explores her biographical story, learning the truth about her parents\u2019 adult bookstore at the center of the gay community. Mason was featured as one of Indiewire\u2019s \u201c25 LGBTQ Filmmakers on the Rise.\u201d Mason is currently directing the official documentary about Halyna Hutchins, with Story Syndicate. She is also directing a series about Billy Newton (aka Billy London) a gay adult film star whose unsolved murder haunted the Los Angeles gay community for 32 years. She directed a three part series with Vox Media Studios for HBOMax set to air in 2023. https:\/\/www.futureclown.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Gina See Yuen Wong is a film producer based in Paris, France. Her most recent film , CIRCUS OF BOOKS, was nominated in the 2020 Emmy’s Awards. It is now available on Netflix. She is a producer for 8 other feature films in collaboration with filmmakers from New York, Santiago, Sarajevo, London and Shanghai. Gina made her first film in Shanghai where she had lived in the city from 2007 to 2015. Gina is also a contemporary art space founder and board member. Gina was a board member of Para-site Art Space ( 2003-2008). She then founded Experimenta in 2008; Experimenta has produced more than 50 multi media exhibitions from 2009 to 2016. Experimenta had moved to Paris since 2016. Gina is a guest lecturer at the Department of Culture and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong ( 2015-2018 ). Gina graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. Gina works and lives in Paris and Hong Kong. https:\/\/www.experimenta.hk\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2014<\/p>\n This event is co-organized by BA in Cultural Studies Programme and the Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3956,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event-categories":[26],"event-location":[],"event-tags":[31,39],"class_list":["post-2914","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","event-categories-public-lectures","event-tags-hybrid","event-tags-past-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/2914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/2914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/2914\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"event-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-location?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"event-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccs.crs.cuhk.edu.hk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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