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[Meet the Filmmaker] In Conversation with “Finch & Midland” Director Timothy Yeung, Producer Ridley Tsui & Actor Jaden Kwan

Join us for an in-person conversation with the creative team and the cast member of Finch and Midland 今天應該很高興, a film about the life and struggles of four Hong Kong immigrants in Canada, to be world premiered at the 2025 Vancouver International Film Festival

[Media] HKSI Convenor Dr. Helena Wu shares ways of reading Ann Hui’s cinema

OmniTV Cantonese, 11th September, 2025

Hok Yau Pit

PhD Student, Department of Asian Studies

timpit@student.ubc.ca

Keenan Manning

Doctoral Student, Department of Educational Studies

kdm852@mail.ubc.ca

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ASIA 325 (24W): Photo Collage

A Creative Response to Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express

ASIA 325 (24W): A Warm Reception

A Short Film Capturing the Spectacle of John Woo's A Better Tomorrow

ASIA 325 (24W): Choose-your-own-adventure Storybook

A Creative Response to Zhang Che's One-Armed Swordsman:

ASIA 325 (24W): Letters of Doomed Fate

A Reflective Reimagining of Made in Hong Kong

ASIA324 (24W): From Ashes to Threads

Wartime and Modern Outfit Interpretations to Eileen Chang's "From the Ashes"

ASIA324 (24W): Photography Series

A Creative Response to Ronald Mar's "Street in the Sun"

ASIA324 (24W): Visual Storytelling

A Creative Response to Liu Yichang's "Intersection"

ASIA324 (24W): Designs & Letters

A Creative Response to Jin Yong’s The Book and The Sword

[Publications] On the frontier of party-state capitalism: mapping the geopolitical economies of China’s Greater Bay Area

Check out this journal article by HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Jamie Peck

[Media] Award-winning Hong Kong director Adam Sau-Ping Wong will speak with HKSI Convenor Dr. Helena Wu at UBC

Pancouver, July 26 2025

Knowledge Mobilization

We explore cultures and cultural topics in Canada, Hong Kong, and beyond

[Achievement] HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Hedy Law appointed as Director of School of Music

Meet the Artists

Join us for public conversations with filmmakers, artists, and cultural practitioners to learn more about their arts

[Media] Filmmaker and AICS Co-curator Jimmy Lo credits UBC for helping him make the transition from Hong Kong to Vancouver

Pancouver, April 25, 2025

[Publications] Mourning for the Death of a Political System: Cantonese Opera and Cantopop in Requiem HK (2017)

Check out this book chapter by HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Hedy Law

[Media] South Korean filmmaker Arum Nam will speak in HKSI event

Pancouver, March 31, 2025

[Media] Taiwanese directors will speak at UBC Asian Independent Cinema Showcase 2025

Pancouver. March 10, 2025

[Media] AICS 2025 features indie documentary shorts from Taiwan on diverse identities

Central News Agency

[News] The opening of the 2025 Asian Independent Cinema Showcase drew over a hundred audience members and local media attention from Pancouver, OmniTV Cantonese, and Singtao Canada.

The Vancouver premiere of Kissing the Ground You've Walked On and Conversation with Macau filmmaker Hong Heng-Fai was successfully held in UBC Robson Square on 6 February 2025.