{"id":40106,"date":"2021-08-13T00:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40106"},"modified":"2021-08-13T00:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:30:47","slug":"kiwi-chow-the-filmmaker-who-took-hong-kongs-protests-to-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40106","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi Chow: The filmmaker who took Hong Kong&#8217;s protests to Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Just before the closing ceremony of this year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival, organisers had a surprise announcement &#8211; they were screening a film by Hong Kong director Kiwi Chow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The documentary about the 2019 protests has a controversial title, named after a popular protest slogan that has since effectively been banned in Hong Kong after China passed a strict national security law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But Kiwi says he does not want to be intimidated nor to self-censor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Wei Wang and Lam Cho Wai. Additional production by Grace Tsoi.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-58196411\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before the closing ceremony of this year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival, organisers had a surprise announcement &#8211; they were screening a film by Hong Kong director Kiwi Chow. The documentary about the 2019 protests has a controversial title, named after a popular protest slogan that has since effectively been banned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/119917657_p09s3hgl.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}