Evans Chan
Evans CHAN is a New York and Hong Kong-based film critic, librettist and independent filmmaker. He has made more than a dozen fiction and documentary films, which have been screened at the Berlin, Rotterdam and Vancouver festivals, among others. He was the librettist for the opera Datong: The Chinese Utopia, which is based on his documentary Datong: The Great Society (2011). A collection of essays and short stories by Chan has appeared, entitled
Filmography
(selection) To Liv(e) (1992), Cuo ai/Crossings (1994), Journey to Beijing (1998, doc), The Map of Sex and Love (2001), Bauhinia (2002), The Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xian (2002), Sorceress of the New Piano (2004), Datong: The Great Society (2011, docu-drama), The Rose of the Name: Writing Hong Kong (2014), Raise the Umbrellas (2016, doc), We Have Boots (2020)
More info: Evans Chan
Evans Chan at IFFR
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We Have Boots
The Umbrella Movement of 2014 paved the way for Hong Kong’s current upheavals. Intellectuals, students, activists, and artists articulate a v
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To liv(e)
In 1990 Liv Ullman visited Hong Kong, and on that occasion she condemned the deportation of Vietnamese boat people from Hong Kong. Ullman’s v