Fresh Wave Festival Loses Three Films as Hong Kong Steps up Political Censorship

A Taiwanese filmmaker has made his short film inspired by Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests available online for free after it failed to get approval from the city’s censorship authorities. Wu Zi-en, director of “Islander,” has uploaded the full 25-minute film noir to online platform Vimeo last week, after it became the third film in a month to have been censored by Hong Kong authorities. The city last year changed censorship regulations to effectively ban any film that is politically sensitive or poses a threat to national security. “Islander” follows a man and his grandson’s journey to visit the son, who… Read Full Article