The anti-revision short film "The House" was not allowed to be screened by the Electric Procuratorate, the director of Ten Fresh Waves issued a statement reprimanded and suppressed

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Written by: Zhong Yan

2021-06-12 19:33

Last update date: 2021-06-12 19:38

One of the short films of the 15th Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival, "The House" with the anti-revision movement as the background, cannot be released tomorrow (13th) due to the lack of a certificate. It is suspected of the government's revision of the "Film Censorship Ordinance" According to the guidelines of the Chinese inspectors, if the depiction of "behaviors that damage Hong Kong's national security" may constitute a threat to national security, it is not appropriate to be screened.

Ten directors of the Fresh Wave Short Film Festival, including the director of "The House" Mo Kunling, issued a statement saying that they had submitted their works to the Telegraphic Inspection Office as early as late April, but they have been delayed for approval. The decision will inevitably be suspected of political repression. Intervene in the freedom of creation and expression.

The Fresh Wave Film Festival said yesterday (11th) that the local competition short film "The House" was cancelled.

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The Fresh Wave International Film Festival posted a post on Facebook yesterday, stating that "Household" was cancelled because the Film, Newspaper and Articles Management Office (Electronic Inspection Office) failed to issue the "Certificate of Approval" or "Certificate of Rejection" before the screening The short film will be shown in five programs titled "01 Deja Vu", and the remaining three short films will be shown as usual.

Another short film of the same program "I want to return to my house before 12 o'clock" director Yang Jianbang posted on Facebook a joint statement from the director of "The House" Mo Kunling, stating that he had submitted his work to the Telegraphic Inspection Office as early as late April. , But has been delayed for screening approval, resulting in the works not being released as scheduled, but the remaining 19 local competition films of Fresh Wave were all approved, saying that the decision "will inevitably be suspected of political repression, interfering with the freedom of creation and expression."

The statement also stated that the directors "will not ban sound due to the tightening of approval conditions", believing that movies are a free expression tool and will continue to use this medium to express their thoughts in the future.

At the end of the statement, it once again urged the Telegraphic Inspection Office to respond to the approval results of "The House" as soon as possible, and it must delay the film's screening opportunities.

In its reply to "Hong Kong 01" yesterday, the Office of Film, Newspapers and Articles Administration stated that it was handling the film censorship of the film "The House"; and pointed out that the revised "Guidelines for Inspectors Concerning Film Censorship" came into effect on June 11. Applies to all videos that have not been checked.

Yang Jianbang, the short film director of the fresh wave competition, issued a joint statement on facebook.

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