UX/UI & Graphic Design
UX/UI & Graphic Design
Selected Work on Design Projects:
Selected Work on Design Projects:
FAR EAST FILM FESTIVAL
Debuting in 1999, Udine’s Far East Film Festival is the only film festival in Europe dedicated to East Asian popular cinema. Over the course of its 18-year existence, the festival has been recognized as one of the most prestigious for Asian cinema worldwide, renowned for showcasing a broad range of East Asian films, organising retrospectives, and providing audiences with access to selected archives. The festival is situated in the charming historic city of Udine, located in the north of Italy. Apart from attracting media professionals and fans, Far East also seeks to attract those in academia.
In 2016, my film critique won the Human Rights Press Awards in the Youth Essay Contest organized by Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club. My prize was a fully paid trip to the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) taking place in Udine, Italy. As one of the 10 selected "student journalists", I participated in seminars, interviews, and workshops focusing on both the art of film and the art of writing. I also conducted interviews with filmmakers attending the festival and contributed to a special Newsletter belonging to the festival called "In Focus." It’s not a very large festival but I did make some lasting connections and learned a lot about how a film festival is organized and operated.
After coming back from Italy, I wrote several articles and news releases about my memorable experience at the Far East Film Festival and submitted them to multiple jounals and magazines. One of my Chinese articles was published at the MOViE MOViE magazine, an art, culture and film-oriented magazine belonging to the Edko Films Company in Hong Kong.
WEST LAKE INTERNATIONAL
DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
The West Lake International Documentary Festival (IDF) is an international documentary festival co-hosted by Zhejiang Radio and Television Bureau and China Academy of Art. IDF is one of China’s most high-quality platforms for promoting documentary-making art in the forms of competition, pitching events, screenings, forums, workshops and many more. The festival is held at China Academy of Art, by the beautiful West Lake in Hangzhou every autumn.
As one of its program specialists, I collaborated remotely with IDF's festival committee to complete some of its import conference materials, translation work, film critiques, promo deck, and many more.
In IDF 2019's academic forum program, I was responsible for doing an interview with famous French film critic Jean-Michel Frodon and organizing the interview material into a media coverage. My finished interview article was published on the official catalog compiled by IDF, on its social media platforms and all official channels. In the interview, Frodon talked about how documentary-making is not only a passive reflection or recording of reality but can also be used as an important means to actively participate in and interfere with reality.
I also contributed a film critique on the Oscar-nominated documentary OF FATHERS AND SONS (2017, by Talal Derki) to the official publication of IDF. In the documentary, Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera provides an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate. My article focuses on how Talal Derki uses a restrained, detached camera and minimalist interference to convey his strong messages about Islamist terrorism.
