The Chinese Film Forum UK are proud to be hosting a one-day event at 70 Oxford Street on women, identity and the creative industries with a special focus on contemporary East Asian art and cinema. Bringing together speakers with experience across academia and the creative industries, this will be a day to continue dialogue and raise questions concerning the recent rise in interest on women in the film and art industries. Presentations will have a special focus on contemporary East Asian art and cinema through a transnational/transcultural perspective between the United Kingdom and East Asia.
Please see here for a detailed programme of the day's events.
The event comes only months after this year's Chinese Visual Festival in London, whose opening gala hosted the work of filmmakers and artists Cao Fei and Yang Lina, who joined the London audience in discussion about working practice in the “male-dominated Chinese cultural scene”. With collaboration between UK and China set to increase over the coming years – and Manchester having a significant role to play following Xi Jinping's visit to the heart of the government's “Northern Powerhouse” in 2015 – this event hopes to foster dialogue on the contemporary experience of women in these rapidly changing international industries.
There will be a free screening of Female Directors (女导演, Dir. Yang Mingming, 2012, 43 mins) during the event. This film is one of many touring the world as part of a season of films, China Now: Independent Visions, curated by North American scholar Shelly Kraicer. Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, Female Directors, is a gleeful and energetic expression of working in China's creative industries as frustrated young women: highlighting central themes of the day's discussion and how they might inform creative practice.
The event is supported by Chinese Film Forum UK, HOME, University of Manchester Confucius Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Salford, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council's NWCDTP fund.
Please see here for a detailed programme of the day's events.
The event comes only months after this year's Chinese Visual Festival in London, whose opening gala hosted the work of filmmakers and artists Cao Fei and Yang Lina, who joined the London audience in discussion about working practice in the “male-dominated Chinese cultural scene”. With collaboration between UK and China set to increase over the coming years – and Manchester having a significant role to play following Xi Jinping's visit to the heart of the government's “Northern Powerhouse” in 2015 – this event hopes to foster dialogue on the contemporary experience of women in these rapidly changing international industries.
There will be a free screening of Female Directors (女导演, Dir. Yang Mingming, 2012, 43 mins) during the event. This film is one of many touring the world as part of a season of films, China Now: Independent Visions, curated by North American scholar Shelly Kraicer. Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, Female Directors, is a gleeful and energetic expression of working in China's creative industries as frustrated young women: highlighting central themes of the day's discussion and how they might inform creative practice.
The event is supported by Chinese Film Forum UK, HOME, University of Manchester Confucius Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Salford, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council's NWCDTP fund.