Overview
Director Jian Yi (簡藝) will share with audience at HKU his short documentary Six Years On, a sequel to his What’s for Dinner?, and the thoughts behind his exciting journey from filmmaking to revolutionizing China’s culinary space in the last few years.
| Venue: | Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong (Map) |
| Rundown: | 12:00 noon Film Screening 12:30 pm Presentation by Director Jian Yi 13:00 pm Discussion with Director Jian Yi |
| Language: | Film screening: Putonghua & dialect with Chinese and English subtitles Discussion: English and Putonghua |
| Venue: | Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong (Map) |
| Rundown: | 12:00 noon Film Screening 12:30 pm Presentation by Director Jian Yi 13:00 pm Discussion with Director Jian Yi |
| Language: | Film screening: Putonghua & dialect with Chinese and English subtitles Discussion: English and Putonghua |
About the Film Director
Jian Yi is a filmmaker, cultural activist and a Yale World Fellow (2009). His films have won international awards and been shown around the globe including at New York’s MoMA. Jian made a documentary on food in 2009 and started to build his interest in sustainable food issues. He founded the Good Food Fund, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) (中國生物多樣性保護與綠色發展基金會良食基金), in 2017, which has thus become a leading initiative in China fledging sustainable food movement.
About the Film
Six Years On, a sequel to Jian Yi’s What’s for Dinner, the first documentary made in China scrutinizing rising meat consumption in the country, looks into what has and has not changed with the lives of the people depicted in the first film.
Organizer
CRF Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th – 21st Centuries” (RGC CRF The University of Hong Kong C7011-16G), Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
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