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香港浸會大學 浸大電影學院 HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY academy of film hkbu ST THE GLOBAL UNIVERSITY FILM AWARDS.第一屆全球大學電影獎 7th_9th NOV 2018 MAKE THE LIGHT MOVE THE WORLD 踏 光尋影 起 動t 界 哇 PROGRA M M E B 0 O K
CONTENT Introduction P.2 About GUFA P.3 About HKBU Messages P.4 HKBU Council and Court Chairman P.5 HKBU President & Vice-Chancellor P.6 Ambassador of GUFA Mr Louis Koo Organising Committee P.8 Advisory and Executive Board Members P.12 Jury Members P.18 Countries and Regions of Submission P.20 Institutions with Entries Selected for Screening P.22 Timetable at a Glance Screening P.24 Overall Schedule P.28 Detailed Schedule P.78 Master Class P.82 Award Presentation Ceremony P.83 Acknowledgement/Sponsors GUFA 2018 一CONTENT一 나CC
INTRODUCTION About GUFA Global University Film Awards (GUFA) is to recognise globally the excellence of film productions by university students from across the world through connecting the global film community and its audiences with outstanding works and groundbreaking ideas. 浸大電影學院 academy of film hkbu 2 PTD | INTRODUCTION I GUFA 2018
About HKBU Established in 1956,Hong Kong Baptist University has provided broad-based,creativity inspiring education over six decades. Today,the eight Faculties/Schools of the University offer a range of undergraduate, associate degree and higher diploma programmes as well as taught postgraduate and research postgraduate programmes leading to the award of MPhil and PhD degrees. Upholding the core ethos of whole person education,HKBU is dedicated to nurturing our future generations by broadening and deepening their knowledge base,instilling in them a sense of social responsibility and leveraging our success in academic and research for the betterment of society. On the journeys ahead, the HKBU community will continue to propel the University towards its aspiration of becoming a leading liberal arts University in Asia for the world delivering academic excellence in a caring, creative and global culture. 3 LX
MESSAGES MR CHENG YAN-KEE HKBU Council and Court Chairman Hong Kong Baptist University I am delighted to welcome you all to the 1st Global University Film Awards (GUFA), an occasion to recognise the creativity of university students worldwide and foster creative exchange among film professionals and young talents from across the world. Hong Kong Baptist University is renowned for being the cradle of Hong Kong's creative elite. In 2002, the Global Chinese Universities Student Film and Television Festival was established to promote exchange among local and overseas talented film students.Dubbed the "global universitystudents Oscars", the Festival has gained increasing recognition from tertiary institutions at home and abroad over its 15 years of development. It is riding on this success that we launch GUFA. This year,we are welcoming about 1,ooo guests and students from over 50 countries and regions. May I invite you to take this excellent opportunity to view the creative work produced by the students worldwide and acclaim their talents. Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our friends and supporters who have walked with us on this increddible journey, and I look forward to your continuous support to make GUFA as resoundingly successful as the Festival from which it was born. hymmmh | MESSAGES | GUFA 2018
PROF ROLAND T CHIN President and Vice-Chancellor Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Baptist University is delighted to play host to hundreds of budding movie makers from universities across the world along with movers and shakers of the global movie industry who come to our world city to showcase their creative talent, generate new ideas, and forge new networks. With more than 1800 entries of movie production from 100 countries vying for 11 Awards, the 1st Global University Film Awards (GUFA) is well poised to become a world-recognised platform to grow a whole new generation of movie makers. Creativity is HKBU's DNA. Dedicated to the provision of cinematic-arts and creative media education, we were the first in Hong Kong to offer a film and video production programme and founded the territory's first Academy of Film. Many of our graduates are now leading figures in the field. Rebranded from the highly successful Global Chinese Universities Student Film and Television Festival, GUFA's mission is to foster creative exchanges among students of film from around the world,and to build synergy between regional young talents and the international creative industry. I would like to congratulate all the participating students,our international panel of judges, industry leaders, academics,artistes, supporters and our organisers for making this event a huge success. Together, let's make the light move the world! Lu 5 UuCVUUu区
MR LOUIS KOO Ambassador of GUFA It is my privilege to be here to honour all of you at this very special ceremony today. The launch of the Global University Film Awards (GUFA) by Academy of Film of HKBU School of Communication is to recognise globally the excellence of film productions by university students from across the world. It is built on the success of the Global Chinese Universities Student Film and Television Festival (GCU) which was initiated by the Academy of Film. GUFA offers a global platform for showcasing talents, exchanging ideas and fostering network. It is also a notable day for the Hong Kong Baptist University which prides itself above all else for adopting a holistic approach to education. Its commitment to unlocking students' creativity,equipping them with the knowledge and nurturing them with desired attributes necessary in today's globalised world has earned our greatest respect. The School of Communication of HKBU has nurtured over 12000 graduates since its establishment in 1968. The Film School is not a passive learning experience,where professors funnel the secrets of success into students' ears. It is a constant back and forth interaction between the School's teaching and the students' own personal learning and development. The School is ranked amongst the best and I truly believe it's a place you'll be able to foster creative exchange and define your own values. Being accompanied by people who share your passion can be crucial validation for choosing a way of life, and a powerful support network for the difficult journey ahead. As Image Ambassador of GUFA, I am overwhelmed to see that the Awards are widely supported and highly recognised by countries and regions all over the world. GUFA 2018 | MESSAGES I
Acting has always been my biggest passion, I have been in this film industry for more than 20 years and am still eager to play an active role. We have witnessed our tremendous achievement in the past and I am confident that with the enthusiasm and perseverance,we can share prosperity and embrace a brighter future together. We look great from many angles. There are a lot of local and join-venture film productions which might convince us so. Filmmaking is an intensely collaborative artforms.I admire those professionals who dedicated endless amount of time and efforts to promoting and developing film arts. My wish is that there is always be talents and resources available for filmmaking to be done at the highest level. I believe the Awards will motivate students to learn from the experience of the Award recipients.When you graduate, hopefully you will be strong enough to weather the inevitable blows to come.Though painful,failure is always the best teacher. I sincerely offer my congratulations to all Award recipients and to all the participants.Welcome you all into the film industry and wish you the very best for your future and your continuing link with us. Last but not least, I must express my heartfelt thanks to the Advisory Board Members and the juries for their hard work and invaluable advice. Their participation in the selection process was truly instrumental to the success of the Awards. Let's all enjoy the ceremony tonight. UuCUUL区 な
ORGANISING COMMITTEE Members of Advisory Board Chris Berry is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London. In the 1980s,he worked for China Film Import and Export Corporation in Beijing as a translator.His curating work includes the 2011 Cultural Revolution in Cinema season in Vienna (with Katja Wiederspahn) and the 2017 Taiwan's Lost Commercial Cinema: Recovered and Restored project on taiyupian (with Ming-Yeh Rawnsley). Film Festival jury service Chris BERRY has included Hawai'i, Pusan, Singapore, and, in 2017, the Golden Horse United Kingdom in Taipei. Primary publications include: (with Mary Farquhar) "Cinema and the National:China on Screen" (Columbia University Press and Hong Kong University Press,2006); "Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: the Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution" (New York: Routledge, 2004); (co-edited with Luke Robinson) "Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); and (co-edited with Koichi Iwabuchi and Eva Tsai) "Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2016). Sopawan Boonnimitra is an independent filmmaker with over 15 years in the field of film and arts,both internationally and nationally.She started her career in film as an assistant director for a feature film and continued to be involved in cinema. In the last ten years, she has been involved in visual arts as both a curator and an artist. She is currently a head of department at Department of Motion Pictures and Sopawan Still Photography at Chulalongkorn University and has a Ph.D. in BOONNIMITRA Visual Arts from Lunds University. Her first feature film, "The Isthmus" Thailand (2013), was selected for theNew Currents Section at the Busan International Film Festival. Prof Roger S Christiansen is a well-known Hollywood sitcom director, member of the American Directors Guild, and the world's top director. He has more than 20 years of experience in Hollywood shooting and has participated in the production of hundreds of sitcoms. He is an experienced film and television wizard who takes care of directors,photography and editing. His directorial style is Roger S gentle,whether it is a big star or a newcomer, actors of any age and CHRISTIANSEN nationality can communicate well with Director Roger S Christiansen. United States The sensational "Friends" series not only earned him the highest honor in American TV-the Emmy Award, but also made the Chinese audience know him.Since then, he has directed "Hannah Montana", "iCarly", "Girlfriend" and many other world-renowned TV dramas. In the past 30 years, as a director, Prof Roger S Christiansen has also taught at many famous universities around the world,including Columbia University, the University of Southern California School of Film Arts,American National Drama, and Beijing Film Academy. 8 | ORGANISING COMMITTEE | GUFA 2018
Prof Elizabeth M Daley is Dean of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of South California, one of the most prestigious and influential film schools in the world. She has been holding the Deanship for twenty-five years,the longest tenure of a Dean at USC. She is the inaugural holder of the Steven J Ross/Time Warner Dean's Chair, founding Executive Director of the USC Annenberg Center for Elizabeth DALEY Communication (from 1994 to 2005), and is now concurrently serving United States as Executive Director of the USC Institute for Multimedia Literacy. In 2015,Professor Daley was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa. As a child,Prof Daley was mesmerized by the stories her mother read or created for her, and her earliest memories that she deeply treasures are of her mother's stories. Her favourite one was about a magical rabbit that lived in a hat. The enduring love of stories that her mother instilled in her has led to her tireless commitment today to ensure her students and faculty have the resources they need to tell exciting stories. Max Howard, has over 30 year's animation industry working background. He created and ran studios for Disney in London, Paris, Orlando and Los Angles, working on some of Disney's most memorable films including "WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT","THE LITTLE MERMAID", "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST", "ALADDIN" and "THE LION KING". As President of Wamer Bros. Feature Animation, Max HOWARD he oversaw such hit movies as "THE IRON GIANT" and "SPACE United States JAM".At DreamWorks he wvas co-executive producer for "SPIRIT", "STALLION'OF THE CIMARRON".Max is currently producing a series of animated feature films for Exodus Film Group. IGOR,the company's first production, was released in 2008. "THE HERO OF COLOR CITY" opened in October 2014, with a third film, "BUNYAN AND BABE",recently completed. Max is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Professor,Doctoral supervisor, School of Media, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Vice-Chairman of Society of Film and Television of Chinese Universities; Board Chairman of International Communication Council of Film and Television. His works include "Movies in All Sides", "Research on the Evaluation Yizhong LI System of Chinese Movies", "The First Heart of Movies"; he is also the China Chief Editor of "Course of Movie and Television Art", "Animation Screenwriter", "Hollywood in Focus (Vol. 1-5)"etc. He serves as jury member of the National University Student Microfilm Competition, International University Student Microfilm Festival (Beijing),Cross-strait Youth Short Film Competition and Shanghai Civil Microfilm Festival. Dr Piyush Roy is an Indian critic, columnist, curator, academic and filmmaker. He has worked at senior reporting positions in leading Indian dailies (The Indian Express, Hindustan Times) and has been published in The Times of India Crest Edition,The Asian Age, Society magazine,Screen and The Speaking Tree.He was editor of StarWeek and Stardust.Teaching Indian cinema at UK universities and Indian Piyush ROY media schools for a decade, his doctorate was on "The Aesthetics of India Emotional Acting" (University of Edinburgh, 2017). Author of two fiction works-"Never Say Never Again" (2007) and "Alexander - An Epic Love Story"' (2007); his forthcoming projects are Bollywood FAQ (non-fiction, Hal Leonard LLC, USA) and Pleasures Prejudice & Pride:An Indian Way of Filmmaking (documentary). Honoured with "Special Mention" for Best Critic at the 6oth Indian National Film Awards (2013) by the President of India, he's a recipient of UK's Sir William Darling Memorial Prize (2014). He's been on the jury of Bollywood Power Brands Awards, was a judge on Star TV Writers Program 2017,and is the Founder-Festival Director of the Edinburgh Festival of Indian Films & Documentaries. Currently he is Associate Professor in Liberal Studies at Jain University,Bengaluru, India. XCOU
Nan Sun Shi was pivotal in the success of Cinema City Studios and Film Workshop Co.Ltd., which she founded with internationally-acclaimed producer and director TSUI Hark. Nansun was a member of the International Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 2007 and at the Cannes Film Festival 2011. In October 2013, the French Government honored Nansun with the title of Officier de I'Ordre des Nan Sun SHI Arts et des Lettres. Nansun received the Best Independent Producer Hong Kong Award-Premio Raimondo Rezzonico at the Locarno International Film Festival 2014,the Golden Mulberry Life Achievement Award at the Udine Far East Film Festval 2015, the Special Achievement Award at the BIFF with Marie Claire Asia Star Awards 2015,and the Berlinale Camera Award (Producer) at the Berlin International Film Festival 2017. Nansun is a member of the Hong Kong Tourism Board and vice ©Jin Liang chairman of the End Child Sexual Abuse Foundation. Johnnie To is one of the leading figures of the film industry of Hong Kong. With his calibre, versatility and energy, he has played an instrumental role in promoting the development of the Hong Kong film industry. Besides the achievements in film production and film directing, Johnnie TO Johnnie has devoted tremendous efforts to grooming local talents. In Hong Kong 2004, he became a member of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and soon after started chairing the Film and Media Arts Group of the Council. In 2005, he initiated the Fresh Wave Short Film Competition which evolved in 2010 into an international short film festival,further fostering cultural exchange among international filmmakers. In 2014, Hong Kong Baptist University conferred Dr To the honorary doctoral degree for his outstanding professional achievements as well as his remarkable contributions to the film industry. As a world-renowned visual artist, art director for stage and film and fashion designer, Tim Yip continues to explore and communicate his aesthetic concept "New Orientalism", which is his interpretation of ancient culture asa means to inspire the future. He works widely in contemporary art, clothing,theatre, film, literature and other creative fields.For "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Yip won the Oscar for Tim YIP "Best Art Direction",becoming the first Chinese to be awarded by Hong Kong the Academy, and the British Film and Television Academy award for "Best Costume Design", in 2001. 10 工0C GUFA 2018 一ORGANISING COMMITTEE一
Executive Board Members Chair Prof HUANG Yu Dean, School of Communication Chair Prof MAN Kit Wah, Eva Director,Academy of Film Vice-Chair Mr MAN Shu Sum Associate Director, Academy of Film Work Committee Communication and Public Relations Office, HKBU University Advancement Office, HKBU Ms Kitty Ip and representatives from Link<-Work Communications Mr Siu Chiu Shun and representatives from Wellfit Productions Limited Ms Anita Cheung, One Cool Film Production Limited 11 山C山X
Jury Members Film critic and historian, director and writer of documentaries about cinema,holds the chair of Production Design at the Academy of Architecture, USI. Started working in 1978 as a festival programmer in Italy (Consultant for Asian cinema at the Venice Film Festival from 1981 to 1995). Created the "Ombre elettriche" (Electric Shadows) Festival in Turin (1981). Subsequently director of the festivals of Pesaro (1982-1989), (Chair) Rotterdam(1989-1991) and Locarno (1992-2000).Director of the Venice Marco MULLER Film Festival (2004-2011) and of Rome Film Festival (2012-2014). Italy After one year of head-programming festivals in Mainland China (Beijing IFF, Fuzhou Silk Road IFF) he directed until November 2016 the 1st Macau International Film Festival and Awards.Currently Artistic Director of the Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival, the new Chinese festival initiated by the celebrated director Jia Zhangke. In his parallel career as a film-producer, Muller has produced and co-produced 11 features that include award-winning movies (Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, top-tier honours in Cannes,Venice and other major festivals) from China, Bosnia, Turkey, Iran, Russia and Central Asia, Brazil (he has also produced short-films and documentaries). Hanspeter Ammann was born 1953 in Zurich, Switzerland. He is a trained Freudian psychoanalyst and started in the late 7oies to produce Video Art pieces which are today in the collection of Museums like Kunsthaus Zurich,the Gulbenkian Foundation,Lisbon, Long Beach Museum of Art LA and others. Many of his pieces were also broadcast on European TV channels like SRF,ARTE,WDR etc. His Hanspeter photographs have been published and exhibited internationally. He is AMMANN an external adviser for the International media program at King Switzerland Mongkut University in Bangkok Thailand and he is also on the ©Matteo Pezzi advisory board of CIAC, University of Algarve, Portugal. Chris Berry is Professor of Filmn Studies at King's College London. In the 1980s, he worked for China Film Import and Export Corporation in Beijing as a translator. His curating work includes the 2011 Cultural Revolution in Cinema season in Vienna (with Katja W/iederspahn) and the 2017 Taiwan's Lost Commercial Cinema: Recovered and Restored project on taiyupian (with Ming-Yeh Rawnsley). Film Festival jury service Chris BERRY has included Hawai'i, Pusan, Singapore, and, in 2017, the Golden Horse United Kingdom in Taipei. Primary publications include: (with Mary Farquhar) "Cinema and the National:China on Screen" (Columbia University Press and Hong Kong University Press,2006);"Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: the Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution" (New York: Routledge, 2004); (co-edited with Luke Robinson) "Chinese Film Festivals:Sites of Translation"(Palgrave Macmillan,2017); and (co-edited with Koichi Iwabuchi and Eva Tsai) "Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2016). Geoff Campbell was born in Toronto, Canada, where he graduated from the Ontario College of Art (1981)and Sheridan College Computer Animation (1985).He began his lengthy and successful career in motion picture Special Effects in 1984 at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),Visual Effects Department in London, England. In 1990, Geoff moved to San Francisco to Geoffrey commence a nine month contract with Industrial Light & Magic as CAMPBELL Digital Modeler and Animator on the feature film Terminator 2. That Canada contract with ILM was extended a fulfilling,award winning 28 years with Geoff acting as Senior Character Model Supervisor on over 25 ground breaking feature films,including Jurassic Park,Jumanji,Men In Black, Star Wars Episodes I and II, Galaxy Quest,Pirates Of the Caribbean I, ll, and lll,Rango, Jurassic World, and Ready Player One. Geoff is currently collaborating on two animated feature films, including an original story line and a screen adaptation of Anne of Green Gables-The MusicalTM. Geoff Campbell was the model supervisor and lead modeler on five Academy Award winning films: "Rango", "Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest", "Jurassic Park", "Death Becomes Her", and "Terminator 2." 12 上つ GUFA 2018 一ORGANISING COMMITTEE 一
Mark Chait, Internationally renowned Hollywood Film Composer and Concert Pianist,winner of the prestigious Emmy Award and three time Telly Award. Mark also composed for an Academy Award nominated film 'Contact' starring Brad Pitt and Elias Koteas. Mark CHAIT 'The Power of One', was Mark's hit theme song for the popular United States Pokemon movie,which became a billboard-charts hit for 8 weeks. Sung by Donna Summer and produced by the legendary Producer David Foster. More recently Mark has collaborated with famous Chinese talents including Director Mao Weining and lyricists Liang Mang and Qu Yuan. A classically trained musician, Mark was born in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in Australia. He launched his film scoring career in the US and became internationally recognised through his rich melodies and sweeping orchestrations. In 2015,Mark Chait opened 'Studio CHAIT' the first Hollywood- style Film Scoring Studio in Asia in partnership with DeTao Group. Angie Chen,born in Shanghai, received her BA and MA from the University of lowa, MFA from UCLA and has been making films since 1979.Now residing in Hong Kong,she works as a director/ producer, and teaches part-time in the Film Academy's MFA Programme at the Baptist University. Her feature documentaries, "This Darling Life" (2008) was nominated the Best Documentary at Angie CHEN the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards,and "One Tree Three Lives" Hong Kong (2012) garnered the Film Merit Award at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards. "i've got the blues" (2017) garnered the Best Feature-length Documentary Award at Festival Film Documenter; and screened at the Vancouver IFF, Busan IFF, Dublin IFF, HKIFF, Singapore Chinese FF, and Taipei FF. Mr Samuel Choy is currently the General Manager of Bliss Concepts Limited,who is managing the multi-media company which develops the original characters "Mcdull" & "Mcmug" publications, animated TV & features, branding and licensing, and project developments. Samuel CHOY Mr Choy is the executive producer for Mcdull's animated features, Hong Kong responsible for financing, production, distribution for all features and TV series of Mcdull. Besides, he develops different kinds of media projects and activities, inicluding animation workshop for students, exhibitions, performances, public education projects as well as co-branding activities. Before joining Bliss Concepts, Mr Choy was the General Manager of Digital Heritage Publishing Limited for the development of a major academic database "SiKuQuanShu" as well as series of publications in education sector.His earlier engagements in Breakthrough Limited and Sino United Publishing Limited focused on digital media development. Prof Roger S Christiansen is a well-known Hollywood sitcom director, member of the American Directors Guild, and the world's top director. He has more than 20 years of experience in Hollywood shooting and has participated in the production of hundreds of sitcoms. He is an experienced film and television wizard who takes care of directors, photography and editing. His directorial style is Roger S gentle, whether it is a big star or a newcomer, actors of any age CHRISTIANSEN and nationality can communicate well with Director Roger S United States Christiansen. The sensational "Friends" series not only earned him the highest honor in American TV -the Emmy Award,but also made the Chinese audience know him.Since then, he has directed "Hannah Montana", "iCarly", "Girlfriend" and many other world- renowned TV dramas. In the past 30 years, as a director,Prof Roger S Christiansen has also taught at many famous universities around the world,including Columbia University, the University of Southern California School of Film Arts, American National Drama, and Beijing Film Academy. ΠζПЮ
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is Distinguished Professor (Film) and Interim Head (History and Heritage) at the University of Lincoln (UK). She is also Visiting Professor (Art and Design) at UNSW Sydney,where she also served as Academic Lead for the Grand Challenge on Refugees and Migrants (18-18). Recent publications include: "There's No Place Like Home: The Migrant Child in World Stephanie Cinema" (2018), "Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Hemelryk Cinema: borders and encounters" (with E Wilson and S Wright, DONALD 2017). She delivered the British Film Institute's cent ans de Australia jeunesse film workshops programme to Birkenhead,Wirral (2015), and Menai High School,lllawarra (2017). She has run film workshops with child migrants from Afghanistan, Syria,Sri Lanka and China. She chaired the Jury for the Norwegian Peace Film Prize,TIFF,Tromsø(2018). Patrick Ferla is a journalist and producer for Swiss Radio Television (RTS).He has created and hosted numerous cultural programmes, produced reports in Hong Kong,Lisbon, Moscow, New York and La Paz, and covered the Berlin, Venice and Cannes Film Festivals where, in 2010, he was a member of the juryin the "Un Certain regard" section. Today, he chairs the RTS Audience Award (Literary Award). Author of Patrick FERLA several books ("Dimitri clown" (1979), "Charles-Henri Favrod, la Switzerland mémoire du regard"(1997), "René Gonzalez, le théâtre pour la vie", (2014), "Gil Roman, les territoires amoureux de la danse",2017),he Claude Dussez signs filmed interviews with personalities. Paul Griffin was one of the first traditional animators to enter the world of computer generated animation. He is a graduate of the Sheridan College Classical Animation Program and received a Bachelor of Science from the New York Institute of Technology, later working at the Computer Graphics Laboratory in Old Westbury, NY. Paul John GRIFFIN Paul has enjoyed a variety of animation projects over the years Canada ranging across commercials, games, television shows and feature films.He's worked as an animator, visual effects supervisor, director and supervising producer for some of the most prestigious studios in the world,including IndustriaI Light + Magic and Weta Digital, NZ, and has had the privilege of providing animation for some very well known directors, including Peter Jackson on Lord of the Rings and King Kong, George Lucas on Star Wars, Paul Thomas Anderson on Magnolia and David Fincher on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Some of his TV commercial work is part of the permanent video collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art, and Paul has two Clios for Superbowl commercials he has lead. Paul is currently the Animation Supervisor at Zoic Studios.He and his wife, Laurie currently make their home and base of operations in Vancouver BC, Canada. Max Howard, has over 30 years' animation industry working background. He created and ran studios for Disney in London, Paris, Orlando and Los Angeles, working on some of Disney's most memorable films including "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin" and "The Lion King".As President of Wamer Bros. Feature Animation,he Max HOWARD oversaw such hit movies as "The Iron Giant" and "Space Jam". At United States DreamWorks he was co-executive producer for "Spirit", "Stallion of the Cimarron".Max is currently producing a series of animated feature films for Exodus Film Group. "lgor", the company's first production,was released in 2008. "The Hero of Color City" opened in October 2014, with a third film, "Bunyan and Babe", recently completed. Max is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 14 上つ GUFA 2018 | ORGANISING COMMITTEE |
Lee Daw-Ming is currently Visiting Professor of the Academy of Film,Hong Kong Baptist University. He was the founding Chair of the Department of Filmmaking,Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). He graduated from Temple University with an MFA degree in Radio-Television-Film. He is the author of "Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema" (2013) and "Documentary: History, Daw-Ming LEE Aesthetics,Production,and Ethics"(2015). His forthcoming book, Taiwan Tracing the Footsteps of Motion Pictures: An Anthology of Early Taiwanese and East Asian Cinemas, is to be published by TNUA Press in 2019. Daw-Ming is also a renowned filmmaker from Taiwan. He is the supervising producer of Taiwan Public Television documentary series "Taiwan:A People's History" (2006), director of"The Suona Player/Chui gu chui" (1988), producer of A"Drifting Life" (1996, winners of Silver Award at Tokyo International Film Festival and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Special Mention at Cannes Film Festival), as well as numerous television documentary series and five documentary films,many of them shown in Hong Kong International Film Festival. Lee is an editorial board member of Studies in Documentary Film. Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media,Head of Department, Faculty of Architecture, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Committee of Film and Audio visual Screening, Ministry of Culture Project Evaluator, Thai Media Fund Prapatsorn LERTANANTA Thailand As an independent producer,through his own company Es.Docu,he has developed an intense career of documentary production.Social Affairs, History and Politics...more than 40 hours of documentaries in the last twenty years as Producer, Director and Scriptwriter. China,India and Spain has been the focus of the stories of Larry Larry LEVENE Levene documentaries,that has been awarded in many International United Kingdom Festivals from the ONDAS prize (In the Tibetan Labyrinth) to best Photography in Shanghai Int. Festival (Sadhus). He has produced three fiction films: "Kathmandu Lullaby", "Thi Mai, Heading Vietnam" and "Crossing the Desert" to be released by the end of this year. Two fiction movies on production,both of them in co-production with China: "Dragonkeeper" a 3D CGI animation Film and "Lost in China" and one under preparation "My Wedding Key". Larry Levene is Vice President of ADN the Spanish Association of Documentary Filmmakers. Claude Mouriéras is a French film director,screenwriter and stage director.He makes fiction films: "Everything's Fine, We're Leaving" (selected by Directors' fortnight of Cannes Film Festival), "Tell Me I'm Dreaming" (Cannes Official Selection, Jean Vigo Award), "Sale Gosse" (Selected by San Sebastian Festival), "Montalvo and the Child" (Selected by Cannes Critics' Week)...and a dozen full-length Claude documentaries in Afghanistan: Le voyage des femmes de Zartalé MOURIÉRAS (Silver FIPA), in Ethiopia Le prêt la poule et l'oeuf (Prize of the Cinéma France du Réel)...He hasalso directed stage productions. He has been the director of the new cinema school in France La CinéFabrique for 5 years. ΠζTU
Born in Paris in 1952, Jean Perret visited schools and University in Zurich and Geneva, Switzerland. His master in contemporary history was dedicated to Swiss documentaries of the 30'. Sincethen,he wrote many articles for newspapers, magazines, books. He taught semiotics and cinema, worked for the public radio, produced television broadcasts for independent documentaries. In charge of Jean PERRET the documentary section at the Festival of Locarno, he became France afterwards the Director in 1995 of the International Film Festival of Nyon (Switzerland), & "Visions du Réel". In 2010,he decided to move to the Geneva University of Art and Design,where he has been till August 2018 in charge of the Film Department / cinéma du réel. He is now an independent lecturer, essays writer,develops pedagogical projects for instance at the EITCV Cuba and collaborates with the GoldenEgg Production Company. Tony Rayns is a London-based filmmaker, critic and festival programmer, with a special interest in the film cultures of East Asia.His writing appears regularly in the BFI magazine Sight & Sound. His films include the documentaries "New Chinese Cinema" (1988),"The Jang Sunwoo Variations" (2001) and "Jang Sunwoo in November" (2006). His latest book is a study of Wong Kar Wai's film "In the Mood for Tony RAYNS Love".From 1989 to 2016 he curated the East Asian selections for United Kingdom Vancouver International Film Festival and ran the Dragons & Tigers Award competition for new East Asian directors,which introduced many new talents. Nan Sun Shi was pivotal in the success of Cinema City Studios and Film Workshop Co.Ltd., which she founded with internationally-acclaimed producer and director TSUI Hark.Nansun was a member of the International Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 2007 and at the Cannes Film Festival 2011. In October 2013, the French Government honored Nansun with the title of Officier de l'Ordre des Nan Sun SHI Arts et des Lettres. Nansun received the Best Independent Producer Hong Kong Award-Premio Raimondo Rezzonico at the Locarno International Film Festival 2014,the Golden Mulberry Life Achievement Award at the Udine Far East Film Festival 2015, the Special Achievement Award at the BIFF with Marie Claire Asia Star Awards 2015, and the Berlinale Camera Award (Producer) at the Berlin International Film Festival 2017. Nansun is a member of the Hong Kong Tourism Board and vice ©Jin Liang chairman of the End Child Sexual Abuse Foundation. Shaoyi Sun (PhD,University of Southern California)is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Shanghai Theater Academy (STA). He has taught Chinese film and literature at Macao University of Science and Technology (MUST), the University of Southern California (USC), University of California at Irvine, National Chung Hsing University (Taiwan),Shanghai University, and New York University in Shanghai.Dr Shaoyi SUN Sun was the NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) China juror at multiple international film festivals including Taiwan Golden Horse (2015), Bangalore (2011),Singapore (2009), Brisbane (2007) and Hawaii(2001); a jury member of the 2016 VGSIK (The Russian State University of Cinematography) International Student Film and Stage Play Festival,2008 Shanghai International Film Festival's Student Shorts Award and of the 2000 Dhaka International Film Festival. Patrick Tam, a key figure of the Hong Kong New Wave cinema in the eighties,began his career in Television Broadcasts Limited in 1967 and, as TV film director, had created groundbreaking,highly renowned TV film series such as "CID", "Seven Women" and "13".Tam turned to feature filmmaking in 1979 and directed "The Sword", his debut film, after which an interesting and outstanding body of works Patrick TAM followed, among them, "Nomad", "Final Victory" and "After This Our Hong Kong Exile".His films have met with critical success, received nominations and won awards in film festivals. Tam's achievement in film editing has also received extensive public recognition. Besides directing films, Tam is active as a film educator in recent years and is currently a Visiting Professor in Baptist University's Academy of Film. 16 CC一 GUFA 2018 一ORGANISING COMMITTEE 一
Johnnie To is one of the leading figures of the film industry of Hong Kong. With his calibre, versatility and energy, he has played an instrumental role in promoting the development of the Hong Kong film industry. Besides the achievements in film production and film directing, Johnnie TO Johnnie has devoted tremendous efforts to grooming local talents. Hong Kong In 2004,he became a member of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and soon after started chairing the Film and Media Arts Group of the Council. In 2005, he initiated the Fresh Wave Short Film Competition which evolved in 2010 into an international short film festival, further fostering cultural exchange among international filmmakers. In 2014,Hong Kong Baptist University conferred Dr To the honorary doctoral degree for his outstanding professional achievements as well as his remarkable contributions to the film industry. Mr Yee majored in film production in Department of Theatre Arts at UCLA and got his MFA degree in 1989. After returning to Taiwan and working as a TV commercial director for years, he made his first feature "Lonely Hearts Club" in 1995 which was selected in competition in Rotterdam Film Festival. He made his second feature "Blue Gate Crossing" in 2002 which was shown in Director Fortnight Chihyen YEE in Cannes Film Festival. Taiwan His third and the latest feature "Meeting Dr Sun" in 2014 won both the best feature and audience choice awards in Osaka Asian Film Festival, and the film also won the best original screenplay in Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. For the past three years,he has been working on his first animation feature "City of the Lost Things"' and writing a new TV series about the judicial system in Taiwan. Dr Lifen Zhang is currently a professor at the School of Journalism, Fudan University,Shanghai. He obtained his BA degree in Journalism at Fudan University in 1984 and received his PhD in Communications at University of Leicester in the UK. Lifen ZHANG Since 2004, primarily based in London,he was the founding editor of United Kingdom FTChinese.com,the FT's award-winning Chinese language business website. He was also the FT's associate editor between 2009-2015. Between 1993-2003, prior to joining the FT he was with the BBC in the UK for 10 years. He has been visiting professor and visiting scholar at the National Chengchi University in Taipei, the Baptist University in HK,University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong,Fudan University in Shanghai,most recently with the Said Business School at Oxford University, England. He received various awards including SOPA journalism awards,Asia's top press award, BBC Onnasis Bursary Award,and The State Street Award for Outstanding Contributions in Institutional Journalism. Came from a long line of film practitioners,Dasheng Zheng graduated from Department of Directing,Shanghai Theatre Academy and furthered his study in School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His recent film "Bangzi Melody", a story based on Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, has earned him the Best Cinematography of the Golden Dasheng Rooster Awards and several nominations of the Golden Horse Film ZHENG Festival and the Beijing Student Film Festival. China Dedicated to drama and documentary, Dasheng Zheng thrived and found his own way in film-making industry among his career for two decades. 17 之ΠζПЮ
57 12 25 COUNTRIES & REGIONS OF SUBMISSION Category No. of Films Narrative 750 Documentary 325 Animation 346 Narrative(Chinese) 172 Experimental 295 Total 1841 1 United States 283 27 Switzerland 14 2 United Kingdom 28 South Africa 13 76T 3 China 29 Portugal 12 69T 4 India 146 30 Denmark 12 5 Turkey 72 31 Thailand 11 6 Iran 53 32 Colombia 11 7 Germany 51 33 Croatia 10 8 Brazil 34 Egypt 10 67 9 Taiwan 48 35 Malaysia 10 10 Canada 46 36 Venezuela 10 Hong Kong 44 37 Lebanon 10 11 12 France 38 38 Romania 6 13 Belgium 32 39 Chile 7 14 Russia 31 40 Georgia 7 15 Australia 29 41 Ireland 7 16 South Korea 29 42 Albania 6 17 Philippines 29 43 Armenia 6 Singapore 28 44 Czech 6 18 Israel 24 45 Nepal 6 19 Indonesia 23 46 Pakistan 6 20 21 Poland 21 47 Slovenia 6 Bangladesh 20 48 Ukraine 6 22 23 Italy 49 Ecuador 5 6T 24 Argentina 18 50 Costa Rica 5 25 Spain 18 51 Austria 4 26 Mexico 16 52 Bulgaria 4 18 GUFA 2018 | WORLD MAP |
63 66 4 79 Vietnam 2 53 Estonia 4 80 Azerbaijan 1 54 Greece 4 81 Carmeroon 1 55 Hungary 1 Japan 4 82 Cuba 56 4 83 Ghana 1 57 Netherlands 58 New Zealand 84 Iceland 1 7 4 85 Jordan 1 59 Serbia 60 Uzbekistan 4 North Korea 1 98 3 87 Latvia 1 61 Cyprus 3 88 Macao 1 62 Kosovo 3 89 Macedonia 1 63 Kyrgyzstan 64 Lithuania 3 90 Moldova 1 T 65 Morocco 3 91 Mongolia Afghanistan 2 92 Myanmar 1 99 2 93 Paraguay 1 67 Algeria Belarus 2 94 Sri Lanka 1 68 1 69 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 95 Tanzania Dominican Republic 2 96 Trinidad and Tobago 1 70 97 Tunisia 1 71 Finland 2 2 98 United Arab Emeriates 1 72 Iraq 2 99 Uruguay 1 73 Nigeria 74 Norway 2 75 Qatar 2 76 Saudi Arabia 2 77 Slovakia 2 78 Sweden 2 19
INSTITUTIONS WITH ENTRIES SELECTED FOR SCREENING INSTITUTIONS (arranged in alphabeticalorder) COUNTRIES/REGIONS Academy of Arts Banja Luka (University of Banja Luka) Bosnia and Herzegovina American Film Institute United States Anadolu University Turkey ArtEZ University of Arts Netherland Ashoka University India Beijing Film Academy Modern Creative College China Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design,Jerusalem Israel BNU-HKBU United International College China California Institute of the Arts United States Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Italian National Film School) Italy Chang'an University China Chapman University United States Christian Heritage College Australia Chung-Ang University Korea City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Communication University of China China Curtin University Australia De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Philippines Divadelní fakulta JAMU Czech Republic Elmikarbordi (The.University of Applied Science and Technology) Iran Emerson College United States Falmouth University United Kingdom Film and Television Institute of India India Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg(Film Academy Baden-Württemberg) Germany Filmakademie Wien (University of Music and Perfoming Arts Vienna) Austria Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF (Konrad Wolf Film Germany University of Babelsberg) Free University of Berlin Germany Full Sail University United States German Film and Television Academy Berlin Germany GOBELINS,l'école de l'image (School of lmages GOBELINS) France Helwan University Egypt HFF-University of Television and Film Munich Germany Hochschule Luzern-Design & Kunst(Lucerne School of Art and Design)Switzerland Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Hsuan Chuang University Taiwan I.A.D (Institut des Arts de Diffusion) Belgium IADT (Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art,Design and Technology) Ireland Indonesian Institute of The Arts Yogyakarta Indonesia Ithaca College United States Jiaotong University China Goldsmiths University of London United Kingdom Karel de Grote University College Belgium Korea National University of Arts Korea Krasnodar State Institute of Culture Russia Kyrgyz Turkish Manas University Kyrgyzstan Lebanese American University United States Łódź Film School(Lodz Film School) Poland London Film School United Kingdom 20 | LIST OF INSTITUTIONS GUFA 2018
Loyola Marymount University United States LUCA School of Arts Belgium Lusófona University Portugal Lycoming College United States Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda India MeiShi Film Academy of ChongQing University China Metropolitan University United Kingdom Musashino Art University Japan Nanjing University of Art China Nanyang Technological University Singapore National College of Arts,Lahore Pakistan National Institute of Design India National Taiwan University of Arts Taiwan National Taiwan University of Sport Taiwvan Norwich University of the Arts United Kingdom Pearl Academy India Plymouth College of Art United Kingdom Ringling College of Art and Design United States Sarajevo School of Scienece and Technology Bosnia and Herzegovina School of Visual Arts United States Scottsdale Community College United States Shanghai Theatre Academy China Shih Chien University Taiwan Shih Hsin University Taiwan Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology Taiwan Southwest University for Nationalities China St.Petersburg State University of Film and Television Russia State University of Performing and Visual arts,Rohtak India Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts Sweden Sunway University Malaysia Supinfocom Rubika France Tainan National University of The Arts Taiwan Taiwan Yi-Shou University Taiwan Tallinn University Estonia Tezpur University India The City College of New York United States The European Film College Denmark UL AGRFT(University of Ljubljana) Slovenia Ulster University United Kingdom Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Andrés Bello Catholic University) Venezuela Universidad del Valle (University of Valle) Colombia Universidad Mayor (Major University) Chile Universidade Estácio de Sá (Estacio de Sa University) Brazil Universitas Multimedia Nusantara (Multimedia Nusantara University) Indonesia University for the Creative Arts United Kingdom University of Arts of Tirana Albania University of Central Florida United States University of Edinburgh United Kingdom University of La Sabana Colombia University of Portsmouth United Kingdom University of Southern California United States University of the Arts London United Kingdom Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture Uzbekistan Vancouver Film School Canada VGIK (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography) Russia Virginia Commonwealth University United States Woodbury University United States Zhejiang University of Media and Communications China 21
TIMETABLE AT A GLANCE 善衡校園 HO SIN HANG CAMPUS (HSHC) 音樂室 區樹洪平台花園 Music AuS Au Shue Hung Reh earsal Terrace Gard 7 A VENUE: Hall 區樹洪樓 Au Shue Hun OPEN PIAZZA OUTSIDE Building O 大學會堂 Academic AC HALL Community Hall(ACH) 星島樓 呂明才中心 Sing Tao Lui Ming Choi Building (STB)* Centre(LMC) 11 Day 1 基督教 教育中心 19:00-19:30 Ch istian 7-Nov Kick-off Ceremony Education Centre(CE (Wed) (西翼) 溫仁才大樓 (東翼) 11 TOEN Oen Hall Oen Hall Building(Main Building) Oen Hall Building 平台 Build ding (West Podium (East Wing) (Level 6) (六樓) Wing) (OEE) Day 3 19:00-21:00 (OEW) 11 查濟民科學大樓 9-Nov Award Presentation Cha Chi-ming Scien B (Fri) Ceremony 楊瑞生紀念館 Yeung Shui Sang B William M.W Mong Courtyar 平台Podium (五樓 Level 5) 邵逸夫大樓 方樹泉圖書館/方樹 Sir Run Run Shaw Fong Shu Chuen Lib Building(RRS) 文農學圃 Man Lung Garden B VENUE:LT3 建新中心 Franki Centre(FC) 金城道 教育 Kam Shing Road 總辦事處 (位於二樓) Day 1 SCE 20:30-22:15 Headquarters 7-Nov (Located on 2/F) Screening:Animation (Wed) 72,73,85 Junction Road 聯合道 25M,29A,72,85 Legend 圖例 行人出入口 BUS Pedestrian Entrance/Exit VENUE:AAB201 往 九龍塘 車輛出入口 港鐵站 Vehicular Entrance/Exit Day 1 10:00-14:30 To 7-Nov Screening:Narrative Kowloon BUS 公共巴士站 (Wed) 15:00-18:00 Tong Bus Stop MTR Station Screening:Experimental 公共小巴站 Public Light Bus Stop 10:30-14:30 Day 2 Screening:Documentary 往 港鐵站 8-Nov 14:30-18:30 九龍塘 MTR Station (沙福道) (Thu) Screening: 公共交通 * 此兩座大樓的房間編號 Chinese Narrative 交匯處 英文字首均為AST To A common room code 9:30-12:30 Kowloon AST is adopted to alI the 浸 Tong Screening: (Suffolk Road) rooms in these two buildings BAPT Day 3 Chinese Narrative Public Transport R Interchange 9-Nov (Fri) 12:30-18:00 25M,25M(s), 29A,29B,61M Screening: Over the Horizon BUS Hereford Road 禧福道 窩打老道 Waterloo Road | TIMETABLE AT A GLANCE | GUFA 2018
香港浸會大學 HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY 北 VENUE: SCC201 N 10:00-14:00 Day 1 Screening:Documentary Chuk Yuen Road 竹園道 7-Nov (Wed) 14:00-18:00 Screening: Chinese Narrative 廣播道 SPH) 10:30-12:00 Master Class with Mr Max Howard "Creating an Effective Story Day 2 and How to Pitch it" 8-Nov * (Thu) 14:30-16:00 Jen Car Park 往樂富 港鐵站 Master Class with To Lok Fu MTR Station Ms.Clare Stewart Junction Road 聯合道 "Navigating International Film Festival" 11:00-12:30 逸夫校園 Master Class with SHAW CAMPUS Mr Tim Yip BUS (SC) "The Invisible Golden Age" 13:00-15:00 Day 3 Pitching 9-Nov 逸夫行政樓 Shaw Tower(SWT) (Fri) 15:00-16:30 Master Class with 區樹洪紀念圖書館 Mr Paul Stekler Au Shue Hun ung Memorial Library (AML) "How to Make a Great Documentary in 90 聯校運動中心 Minutes" Joint Sports Centre(JSC) 永隆銀行商學大樓 The Wing L ng Lung Bank Building for Business Studies(WLB) 林護國際會議中心 am Woo へ International Conference Centre 思齊樓 David C.Lam Building (DLB) E VENUE: Baptist University 郭鐘寶芬女士康體文娛中心 KOO MING KOWN Madam Kwok Chung Bo Fun Sports and Cultural Centre(SCC) 及行政大樓 EXHIBITION GALLERY 停車場C入口 Car Park C Entrance 賽馬會師生活動中心/陳瑞槐夫人 Day 1 胡尹桂女士持續教育大樓 Jockey Club Academic Community Centre (ACC)/Madam 7-Nov Kwai School of C Continuing Education Tower(SCE) (Wed) 賽馬會中醫藥學院大樓 Jockey Club School of Chinese Medicine Building(SCM) Day 2 Exhibition 學生宿舍 Student Residence Halls(SRH) 8-Nov Stills of Selected Entries 停車場C出口 Car Park C Exit (Thu) Day 3 9-Nov 傳理視藝大樓/傳理視藝停車場 (Fri) Communication and Visual Arts Building( (CVA)/Communication and Visual Arts Car Park 漫會大學道 Orive
SCREENING To connect the filmmakers with the audience, student film screenings will be organised for open discussions and exchange of ideas. The films selected for the screenings will include shortlisted entries and outstanding student productions of the year. OVERALL SCHEDULE Project Title Name of College/University Hope Spots De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Beyond the World University of Edinburgh Facing the Sun University of La Sabana Heroes, After The Cape Sunway University Unclaimed Lycoming College Satellite Baby School of Visual Arts Documentary Life in Gray Universidade Estácio de Sá (Estacio de Venue:SCC201 Sa University) 10:00-14:00 HELLO Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Southern Taiwan University of Science The Call and Technology Living in Chains Nanyang Technological University Go Ahead National Taiwan University of Sport The Words Anadolu University Look for Cheng Chapman University Traveler Helwan University My Little Brother, Korea National University of Arts Seung-hyuk Day 1 「APOLLYON」 Scottsdale Community College 7-Nov (Wed) The Watchmaker Christian Heritage College Filmakademie Wien (Universityof Music The Victory of Charity and Perfoming Arts Vienna) She Dreams University of the Arts London Das Sofortbild-System HFF-University of Television and Film 63 Munich A FEW KNOTS AWAY Metropolitan University Narrative German Film and Television Academy Venue:AAB201 P Berlin 10:00-14:30 Scraps London Film School The Last Lullaby The European Film College Mahaantam National Institute of Design Girl in the Galactic Sun Vancouver Film School State University of Performing and Visual VAISHALI arts,Rohtak Elmikarbordi (The University of Applied Limit Science and Technology) PABLO I.A.D (Institut des Arts de Diffusion) The Inland Sea Norwich University of the Arts Little Darling American Film Institute 24 GUFA 2018 | SCREENING OVERALL SCHEDULE |
Trick Shih Hsin University Blue-Tales from Emerson College Suburbia Abang Taiwan Yi-Shou University DISCONNECTION Communication University of China HEY! THE YOUNG MAN! National Taiwan University of Arts Chinese Dinner for Two National Taiwan University of Arts Narrative Blizzard Night Communication University of China Venue: SCC201 14:00-18:00 MeiShi Film Academy of ChongQing The Aftermath University Xi Er Chang'an University Lucky Hong Kong Baptist University Dare Not Fly National Taiwan University of Arts Knight Shanghai Theatre Academy Before the Exam BNU-HKBU United International College Journey Curtin University Reality Fragment Jiaotong University Goldsmiths 160921 University of London Projections of a Universidad del Valle (University of Valle) Beautiful Creature Les Homards Immortels LUCA School of Arts (Night Song) Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Mother Culture VGIK (Gerasimov Institute of MOSCOW Cinematography) JA:PA Divadelní fakulta JAMU Day 1 SOLDAT University of Portsmouth 7-Nov Leak Full Sail University (Wed) Experimental I was lost. Now I'm not. Plymouth College of Art Venue:AAB201 15:00-18:00 Anpadh Pearl Academy Fisso Shih Chien University Dejà Vu Ulster University Dreamweaver University of Central Florida Panlk Karel de Grote University College Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Follower (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg) Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Worm Culture How Far is That Tezpur University iVe! Loyola Marymount University Donuts Woodbury University DEKKO University of Southern California Moved to Tiers Ithaca College Universitas Multimedia Nusantara Life of Death (Multimedia Nusantara University) UNCANNY California Institute of the Arts Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD Drowning WOLF (Konrad Wolf Film University of Animation Babelsberg) Venue:LT3 Ringling College of Art and Design Saba 20:30-22:15 Butterflies Ringling College of Art and Design Grandma's Pie Ringling College of Art and Design Religion for Dummies Ashoka University Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Swim (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg)
Project Title Name of College/University Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Him&Her (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg) Lost Control Tainan National University of The Arts IADT (Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, The Usual Design and Technology) Tiffanys Ringling College of Art and Design GOBELINS, l'école de l'image (School of A Day in the Park Images GOBELINS) Cage University for the Creative Arts Meet Chung-Ang University Protect the Animals Southwest University for Nationalities Day 1 Animation Little Red Riding Hood Musashino Art University 7-Nov (Wed) Venue:LT3 June Lily Hong Kong Baptist University 20:30-22:15 Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia The Eel (Italian National Film School) St.Petersburg State University of Film Blanket Tale and Television Little Bandits California Institute of the Arts I Loaf You School of Visual Arts Water Moves University for the Creative Arts INN School of Visual Arts Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Myosotis (Film Academy Baden-Württemberg) Hersenspinsels ArtEZ University of Arts (Figment) Pigeongrove Northumbria University A Shelter Nankai University Nanuli and Gogi Tallinn University Fight For Breath Hsuan Chuang University And What is the Film and Television Institute of India Summer Saying Nanami National Institute of Design Documentary "I came in at the end, Venue:AAB201 the best was over" The 10:30-14:30 Sopranos between Sapienza University of Rome Reality and Collective Consciousness Tole (Children On the Indonesian Institute of The Arts Street) Yogyakarta The Sisters kódź Film School (Lodz Film School) Day 2 8-Nov Glow Worm in a Jungle Film and Television Institute of India (Thu) Faces In The Crowd Film and Television Institute of India Xuan Xuan Communication University of China Adulting Hong Kong Baptist University Please Translate University of Southern California Zhejiang University of Media and We Outlaws Communications Chinese The Winds of the Wind Zhejiang University of Media and Communications Narrative Venue:AAB201 Cut From The Same Hong Kong Baptist University 14:30-18:30 Cloth Farewell,Summer Night Hong Kong Baptist University Chameleons Hong Kong Baptist University Misty BNU-HKBU United International College Love After Love Communication University of China 26 GUFA 2018 SCREENING OVERALL SCHEDULE |
The Death of a Crow Nanjing University of Art The Night Without Stars Zhejiang University of Media and Communications Chinese Narrative Where is Spring Hong Kong Baptist University Venue:AAB201 17 Years City University of Hong Kong 09:30-12:30 Beijing Film Academy Modern Creative The Darkened Sky College Baron Samedi Hong Kong Baptist University Over the Living Like Heta Hochschule Luzern-Design & Kunst Horizon: (Lucerne School of Art and Design) Animation GP-to Supinfocom Rubika Venue:AAB201 12:30-13:00 Honk Virginia Commonwealth University Memorándum Universidad Mayor (Major University) Listen The City College of New York Dust Free University of Berlin Over the Day 3 Horizon: City of Walls University of Arts of Tirana 9-Nov Documentary The Two Halves Falmouth University (Fri) Venue:AAB201 Lusófona University 13:00-16:00 Salt Sarajevo School of Scienece and Winter Sun Technology Handwriting Krasnodar State Institute of Culture Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Over the I'm not a robot Jerusalem Horizon: Experimental Universidad Católica Andrés Bello Kampos (Andrés Bello Catholic University) Venue:AAB201 16:00-16:30 Kyrgyz Turkish Manas University Night Guest Brine Lebanese American University Academy of Arts Banja Luka (University Over the Daybreak of Banja Luka) Horizon: Narrative Roof Knocking Lusófona University Venue:AAB201 Schoolyard Blues Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts 16:30-18:00 What Remains UL AGRFT (University of Ljubljana) Bedero National College of Arts,Lahore 27
DETAILED SCHEDULE DOCUMENTARY HOPE SPOTS BEYOND THE WORLD Philippines |18'24 Director Joseph Dominic Cruz United Kingdom | 16' | Director Yanlin Li De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde University of Edinburgh A look inside the local professional The film is Yanlin's personal odyssey in wrestling scene in the Philippines, search of the hidden family story of her presenting the storytelling aspect of dead Chinese grandmother's past- what is the polarizing sportof pro being a medium. In the film,she wrestling through the lens of the explores the spiritual world andthe homegrown promotion's first female search for an understanding of death. wrestler. FACING THE SUN Colombia | 17'25 | Director Juan Diego Rodriguez University of La Sabana Migration is an important part of humanity, nation and the history that formed him. whether in the search for a better life,new Today, after 55 years without touching his experiences, or those moments of need homeland from exile, he awaits a single that surpass tradition and roots. This is the desire:To return and face the ghosts of his case of Pedro Ojeda, a Cuban who at 15 memory.Cuba,the country that gave him was forced to leave his country for fear of everything and took it away, his brilliant being shot while working indirectly with childhood, dark memories,the family he the revolution, being the messenger of a remembers,the one he does not know rebel priest. Pedro emigrated to Colombia yet and everything that has changed in his leaving behind his family,his friends, his absence. 28 千年祖宗千年盛 GUFA 2018 SCREENING |
SCREENING TIME:7-NOV(Wed)2018 VENUE:AAB 201 TIME:10:00-14:00 HEROES,AFTER THE CAPE Malaysia |12'22| Director Enrico Wong Juin Foo Sunway University Humanitarian GARY CONRAD LIEW (29) the underprivileged is worth going is determined to aid the homeless through at all. Doubt grows toward the amidst a feeding ban imposed by Kuala efficacy of his organization,Street Lumpur's municipal council;limiting Feeders, as well as the concept of feeding activities to three areas within feeding the homeless as a whole. Is Gary the city.Working endlessly, he begins to simply an enabler of his own adversary, question whether his various efforts for or is he the hero that Malaysia needs? UNCLAIMED SATELLITE BABY United States | 8' | Director Mary Radel United States | 40' | Director Lucy Huang Lycoming College School of Visual Arts This short documentary following the Satellite Baby tells an extraordinary story Lycoming County Coroner's Office as of a Chinese immigrant Julie suddenly they attempt to create permanent raising her three kids after years of living housing for unclaimed cremains in the alone.She is trying to rebuild the county. relationship with her kids in their new home in Flushing, Queens after she left them in China to be raised by their extended families. | DOCUMENTARY |
LIFE IN GRAY HELLO Brazil | 15' | Director Leonardo Martinelli | India | 20'43 | Director Abhijit Patro Estacio de Sa University Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda A faux documentary about the ongoing HELLO is a twenty minute ethnographic social, political and economical crisis in documentary film about the daily Brazil,where the government cuts the activities and customary practices of the colors of Rio de Janeiro, turning the city Adivasi group-the Santhals -dwelling black and white. in the area in and around Jharkhand, India.The film is shot in their language, Santhali, depicting a variety of customs; traditional arts and crafts that this tribe is involved with-also showing aspects of their lives such as birth, their means of survival, the education system and their cultural activities. THE CALL Taiwan |27'30 | Director Chen-Wei Kuo Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology There is a place in Tainan called Xigang road will destroy the fields,precious District. People who live there received trees and a hundred-year-old railway. the Urban Renewal documents of the The members of Protect Xigang Farm municipal government in 2014.Cheng promoted Nature Farming and Railway Tun-che (TC) organized local residents Renaissance and they tried to protect to resist the government. In May 2017, and develop Xigang. We hope this video Ministry of the Interior passed the case can convey our point of view. Our of island requisition of Xigang for the environment needs to be protected. We outer ring road.But this outer ring road can't make up after we destroy the can only save two minutes on transport. environment. What's worse, building the outer ring 30 | SCREENING GUFA 2018
LIVING IN CHAINS Singapore | 14'38 | Director Nur Humaira Sajat Nanyang Technological University Living in Chains is a short documentary of the traditional healers and the film that centers around the banned unconventional methods they employ to practice in Indonesia known as pasung. heal the patients. The film also serves to Pasung refers to the practice of physical highlight thestigma and cultural beliefs restraint or confinement upon a person that perpetuate the practice which still deemed as mentally ill.The exists in certain parts of the world in this documentary presents the standpoints modern day and age. GO AHEAD Taiwan | 29'16 |Director Jhen-Ci Wang,Yu-Shao Liu | National Taiwan University of Sport In Meinung, Taiwan, most families his plan. This project has run for 7 years encourage their children to study hard so far. If they do not have enough for better job opportunities after financial support, the team will be graduation. The sports education is dismissed. It also means that the neglected by most. However, there was contribution of Xu would be wasted.In an excellent baseball player in Meinung, the past few years, there are two players Xu Sheng-Ming. He decided to be a from this team chosen for the national baseball coach in his hometown after team. The coaches are worried that they retirement. He recruited young baseball might not get sponsorship after ten players and established a baseball team years.They can only keep coaching -"Meinung Junior Baseball Team".He those kids who have baseball dreams. also fundraised for the team to run a What they can do is to keep the ball ten-year restoration project of baseball, running and keep young people moving but he passed away in the first year of toward their goals. 31
THE WORDS LOOK FOR CHENG Turkey | 5'11 | Director Turgut Barut United States | 20' | Director Zhan Luo| Anadolu University Chapman University Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of Cheng changed from a security guard to the printing and typesetting industry. a millionaire in 5 years, he bought a Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's luxury car and had a terrible car standard dummy text ever since the accident,then he disappeared. 1500s,when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. The leap into electronic typesetting,remaining essentially unchanged. DOCUMENTARY SCREENING TIME:8-NOV(Thu) 2018 VENUE:AAB 201 TIME:10:30-17:30 PIGEONGROVE Pigeongrove is a short documentary film based in the small town of Skinningrove, United Kingdom |7'40| Director Ruby Blake| located on the coast of North Yorkshire. Northumbria University In the film we explore their annual tradition of the community coming together and organising the build of a bonfire-which has a different theme every year. We see the progress of the build,the meaning behind the pigeon theme and the overall team effort to make the event happen, with both adults and children getting involved. The finale shows their hard work put into practice as audiences gather to witness the fireworks display and the incredible bonfire being lit. 32 GUFA 2018 SCREENING |
A SHELTER China |19'58 | Director Wenting Wei Nankai University There is a nursing home called "Fuling" Winter is coming, and the lunar new in Hedong District of Tianjin. It is also a year is approaching.The landlord will relief station for the vagrants and not rent the building to her.Ding went beggars.The tramps, the murderers,the to court with her lawyer, but the result intellectual disabilities...live in this was not satisfactory. narrow building. As a dean,Dingshuang has been over half a hundred years old. NANULI AND GOGI FIGHT FOR BREATH Estonia | 14'15 | Director Mariam Agladze Taiwan | 33'40 | Director Chun-Ting Chou Tallinn University Hsuan Chuang University A short documentary following an old Zimao village villagers had been living couple trying to come in terms with with the bad smell and had their lives death in an abandoned countryside affected for almost 20 years as a result village. The loneliness of being the only of the illegal exposion of organic people in the village, situated in the fertilizer. When the owner of the organic western part of Georgia,is shown with fertilizer farm decided to extend his silence between them as they stare farm,the villagers are very angry and blankly into space. they decided to stand up for themselves and fight for their rights. The homeland and villagers pull together the relationship of people,but profits and expansion of factory ruins the relationship with people. The current environmental issue of Taiwan is reflected in the case of Zimao village. 33 DOCUMENTARY
AND WHAT IS THE NANAMI SUMMER SAYING India | 19'58 | Director Payal Kapadiai India | 1441 | Director Kunika Kharat Film and Television Institute of India National Institute of Design Namdeo has learnt to live off the forest An observational take on people who from his father. He stares at the treetops, sell funeral supplies on the streets of searching for honey.The wind blows Ahmedabad.From the process of and afternoon descends on the small making a Nanami (bier) to the customer village by the jungle.Women of the negotiation while selling it, is the life of village,whisper little secrets of their lost the people selling these Nanamis.The loves. Never seen, and only heard.A documentary is a quite observation of strange smoke emits from the ground, death in everyday lives of threestalls, like a dream of a time gone by. with three generations of people doing the same job of selling funeral supplies. "I CAME IN AT THE END, THE BEST WAS OVER" THE SOPRANOS BETWEEN REALITY AND COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS Italy | 8'14 | Director Edoardo Spallazzi| Sapienza University of Rome "I came in at the end. The best was over" The Sopranos between collective imagination and reality The Sopranos, the show that changed The documentary gives an in-depth look the way we look at tv series, is packed at how these elements all blend full of movie and real-life references, together as well as the way the show which in turn shape the characters and suggests the loss of identity in today's the story itself. While at the same time man. creating a clear distance from both. 34 SCREENING | GUFA 2018
TOLE (CHILDREN ON THE STREET) Indonesia |21'09 | Director Fuad Hilmi Hirnanda Indonesian Institute of The Arts Yogyakarta Mrs. Fitri (38), Tole's parents (12) has a himself a disadvantaged children.By husband who jobless like herself. Every reason of economic limitations,Mrs.Fitri day,Mrs. Fitri wait for Tole ngamen sacrificed her third child to be the (street work) at a red light in front of backbone of her family without thinking Borobudur Plaza.The unfavorable about the rights and obligations that background of Tole's family makes she should gave as a parent. THE SISTERS Poland | 19'53 | Director Michal Hytroś Lodz Film School Behind the mighty eighteenth-century and Benedykta (40 years in convent) wall of the oldest enclosed convent in - introduce us to the world behind the -Benedictine convent in Staniatki, near wall telling us about their lives and Krakow -the life of twelve nuns in their decisions in a specific way.They show 70s goes on. Despite their age and the us the world of convent in true colours, world of rapid change, they try to without stereotypes,often touching and comply with the rule set over ten amusing at the same time. This is the centuries ago 'ORA et LABORA'each film about silence said aloud. day. Our protagonists- nuns Anuncjata 35 | DOCUMENTARY |
GLOW WORM FACES IN THE IN A JUNGLE CROWD India | 12' | Director Ramana Dumpala India | 19'59 | Director Shahi AJ / Film and Television Institute of India Film and Television Institute of India "Glow Worm in a Jungle" is about Hema Yet another following story.A search for Sane, a retired Botany professor,who the person that recurred the most in the has never used electricity ever in her bunch of photographs i had found life. Living surrounded by nature, amidst abanddoned in a scrap car on an evening a concrete jungle, she shares her walk around my institute.A Play with philosophy of life with doses of humor that figure's resistance to form. and wisdom. Searching parallels for my obsessions in the ever elusive figure strandedin the photographs. XUAN XUAN China | 42'27 | Director Angrli Liu Communication University of China Cool,means very, extremely and deeply I think no one could give a specific in the Chinese dictionary.Now we could answer.At the end of last year, I met her use it to express admirations for on the Internet. Through pieces in a somebody or something unusual and virtual world,She leaves a pretty cool avantgarde. Most of people always say impression on others: Tattoo,piercings, they would be cool guys.As with how ear stretching, photographic films and to give a specific definition of this word, vintage.Is she really cool in real life? 36 GUFA 2018 SCREENING
SCREENING ANIMATION SCREENING TIME:7-NOV(Wed] 2018 VENUE:LT3 TIME:20:30-22:15 LIFE OF DEATH UNCANNY Indonesia |5'23| Director Jason KIANTORO Bryan ARFIANDY Universitas Multimedia Nusantara United States | 3'56 | Director YOO Hyoung (Multimedia Nusantara University) Joon | California Institute of the Arts Death,while struggling to balance his It's about a girl who faces and embraces work and family life, talks about his her true self,triggered by finding dying existence,his job,and his opinions on crow. human beings in an interview from the documentary titled 'Life of Death'. DROWNING SABA Germany | 5' | Director Pedro HARRES United States | 1'23| Filmuniversitat Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF Director Negin FARTASHMEHR (Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg) Ringling College of Art and Design Hans is not as young as he used to be.In A kind young girl, Saba, lives on her own order to avoid his loneliness,he must in the middle of a war zone.One day she learn how to swim in the big sea of finds an injured bird struggling for life in information that is the Internet nowadays. the streets, andshe decides to help the Is he prepared for the overwhelming flightless dove. They find in each other amount of distractions and traps that the akindred spirit, and give one another online world can offer? hope in a place devoid of all light. 37 |ANIMATION
BUTTERFLIES United States | 2'14 Director Abby BOYCE | Ringling College of Art and Design When Peter sees a girl, Robin,he thinks fend off the butterflies,he unknowingly is beautiful running the local coffee cart, demonstrates his persistence and he is overcome with nervousness.He strength to Robin in his quest to talk to gets "butterflies in his stomach," which her. only seem to increase his anxiety throughout the film.As he attempts to GRANDMA'S PIE HIM&HER United States | 2'35 Director Camilo CASTRO Germany | 7'47 | Director Nathalie LAMB Ricardo San EMETERIO Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg Ringling College of Art and Design (Film Academy Baden-Wurttemberg) A hungry dragon chases after an What if a magical treehouse could oblivious grandma that is too focused illustrate our fantasies and desires? If all on making her favorite apple pie to objects would have a soul and even notice the death and destrujction going long-distance relationships would be on around her... easy to handle? Well -we can't give you the recipe for long-distance relationships, but for the rest Him&Her finds an answer. 38 GUFA 2018
RELIGION FOR DUMMIES India | 449 | Director Kabeer KHURANA Ashoka University Having spent days sitting in a bustling does the yield of his religious tactics. marketplace, a famished beggar finds Soon enough, owing to his growing that everyone turns a blind eye to the influence, he has enough followers to bowl he clutches onto,aching to receive establish his own religion, Spinnism, a few coins or a piece of bread.The operating on its own Code of Conduct. beggar is dismayed at the state of He becomes a master of conning affairs, but soon something stirs his common-folk and, quite literally, makes imagination.He observes a man, them spin to his tunes. With an ever- appearing to be a religious mendicant, growing yield, there is no end to his lure credulous passers-by into giving megalomania. He takes to exploiting him money in exchange for blessings women and gains the attention of and chants. Struck by this incident, the paparazzi engrossed in every action of beggar decides to don a religious garb, his.In this game of power,sex,and and almost instantly sees things change money,he is convinced that he is for the better. He is met with new invincible.The film ends with a painting respect, and the bowl overflows with of him,forever embedded on the walls money.As his attire gets grander,so of history. SWIM Germany | 3'01 | Director Maike KOLLER Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg (Film Academy Baden-Wurttemberg) The animation film"Swim" is the story of eventually is pulled into the sea by a big an old woman who despite her age, still wave.Being in panic the old woman wishes to learn how to swim.Well tries to keep herself above water but is equipped with an inner tube, floaties crushed under water by the weight of and a pair of goggles the old woman the waves and pulled into the deep. first hesitates to step into the water but Slowly the old woman starts to drowvn... 39 ANIMATION
THE USUAL Ireland |4'05 Director Eabha BORTOLOZZO,Jack KIRWAN| IADT (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art,Design and Technology) A day in the life of a barman and his consumes the more illustrative and patron. Set in an Irish pub, this animated evocative the animation becomes. short is narrated by a voice over Completed in traditional hand drawn compiled from interviews with John B. animation this short film explores the King and Richard Burton in which they serious issues of addiction and alcohol discuss their relationship with alcohol. consumption in a sensitive and creative The animation mirrors the intoxication of way. the main character; the more alcohol he TIFFANYS A DAY IN THE PARK United States | 4'44 | Director Sean Daniel, France | 2'55 | Director Diego Porral SOLDEVILLA ESSER Caitlin CHIUSANO, Zhara HONORE | GOBELINS,l'ecole de l'image Ringling College of Art and Design (School of Images GOBELINS) A planet conquering Alien who mistakes In " A day in the park" we are introduced a high school mean girl for the ruler of to a monologue by a grandfather who Earth competes against her for the Prom explains to his grandkid how things used Queen crown. to be, or maybe; how they are now. 40 O-CC<L二-C
LOST CONTROL Taiwan | 5'54 | Director CHANG Chia-Tse Tainan National University of The Arts After a man entering his cozy room,he compulsive disorder. Invisible sound and immediately feels dissatisfied for the interference will stimulate the role into a location of goods he plans. So, he moves more crazy state. The protagonist will use his goods and cleans his room again and the ruler and the line to regulate his again.Although he finishes his cleaning behavior. Not only the location of the works, pressure in his mind will suddenly object, but also tilt angle are important interfere him to clean his room basis. It makes him how to judge the continuously.Gradually,he can not correct border, and also makes him get a control his behavior anymore. Finally,he sense of security. Most people think that enters into disorder. In disorder,he can obsessive-compulsive disorder is a not control his behavior and situation symbol of order,but the author does not anymore.He is engulfed by disorder. In think so. When the patient is more the bubble,he floats and drifts with wave tangled for order of objects, it is more motion of his emotion. After all, can he difficult for him to control his own protect himself and not to be interfered emotions and behavior.Finally,he will be by disorder? The story is adapted from out of the standard of nature. And this is the condition of my friend, through my also the most important core of this long observation.I think about the creation.When the character and items relationship between obsessive- gradually lose the order, they enter a compulsive disorder and order by another more chaotic space. Then they are point of view.The author discovers that wrapped in bubbles.Thne story gives a the friend will only conduct obsessive- metaphor that the choice between order compulsive disorder in his room,so the and disorder, only patient can choose by story starts from the friendd's room. He will himself. There is only a fine line between start endless behavior of obsessive- order and disorder. HERSENSPINSELS (FIGMENT) Netherlands |6'35 | Director Christina KINGMA ArtEZ University of Arts Hersenspinsels follows the story of a perfectionist spider that works hard to process human images.One day, he needs to process something that he hasn't seen for a long time. Hersenspinsels is a dutch saying that litterally translated means: 'brain spiders'. Which in English can be described as 'figment'.
CAGE MEET United Kingdom|3'14| Korea |5'25 Director Daisy FAIRBAIRN Director YUAN Hongliang University for the Creative Arts Chung-Ang University Based on a true story,this animation Because of the characteristics of takes you through a Lorikeet's journey seasons,the electric fan and the heater as he is torn from his home. can't get the opportunity to meet each other. To get around this obstacle the fan seeks out ways to meet with the heater in a series of efforts and failures. PROTECT THE LITTLE RED RIDING ANIMALS HOOD China|o'35| Japan | 3'23 | Director LU Yinchu | Director WEI Man Southwest University for Nationalities Musashino Art University Protect the animals I am timid and afraid to speak in front of Lu Yinchu, Students of Southwest many people.The reason why I would University for Nationalities in China, be have to date back to many years ago. first time creating an animation This kind of childhood memories I really do not want to recall.However, by means of the form of animation, it will be a liberation for me. This story happened when I was 4 years old. At that time I was in kindergarten. Fortuitously,a coincidence changed my active character... Early childhood education is very important, and very slight things may change one's life. GUFA 2018 SCREENING
JUNE LILY THE EEL Italy | 7'37| Director Silvia BASSOLI,Giacomo D'ANCONA, Hong Kong |5'06| Maria Virginia MORATTI | Director TAN Yuehan| Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Hong Kong Baptist University (Italian National Film School) The two girls were suffering from their The friendship between two children perspective dilemmas at the same time. raised together in the Po Valley The unshakable male power brought countryside is lost when one has to them endless fear and distress. move with his family. June lily also means young girls.What They will meet again as adults, thanks to could they do to escape that bad the eel, a call from the dephts of the dreams? earth. The film is dedicated to the land and the people of the Emilia region,shaken by the earthquake in 2012. BLANKET TALE LITTLE BANDITS Russia |3'29 United States | 4'| Director Maria KUZMENKO Director Alex AVAGIMIAN| St.Petersburg State University of Film and California Institute of the Arts Television Once upon a time the town was A kid is convinced that shooting a bird attacked by the Giant. All mothers and will turn him into a "Man". Loosely based children have run up frightened.Dads on a true personal story. and grandfathers began to fight, but destroyed the city more. Only kind and wise grandmothers found a solution and saved the city. | ANIMATION |
I LOAF YOU WATER MOVES United States | 2'| United Kingdom |1'32 Director LEE Yen Juen Director Leto MEADE | School of Visual Arts University for the Creative Arts I Loaf You is a 3D animated short film An autobiographical film about my about a torpedo loaf who is shorter than relationship with the sea. other baguettes trying to find his true love.The film is mainly to convey the idea that even if you are different and cannot accomplish certain tasks, you can always try other ways such as teaming up with others, embracing yourself to meet your goals. INN MYOSOTIS Germany | 3'44| United States |4'24| Director Levin TAMOJ, Fabienne PRIESS Director CHEN Junheng Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg School of Visual Arts (Film Academy Baden-Wurttemberg) The scene behind that toilet door still On her walk through the woods an appeared in her nightmare over and elderly woman discovers a mysterious over. She tried to cut her hair to erase cave. She gets lost in a bizarre world of the bad memories but failed.The young vegetation that seems so strange but girls were still struggling in their familiar at the same time. respective dilemmas.However,the June lily finally withered and fell.Facing the horrible male power and destruction of both body and mind, she made her choice eventually.
SCREENING NARRATIVE SCREENING TIME:7-NOV(Wed)2018 VENUE:AAB 201 TIME: 10:00-14:30 TRAVELER MY LITTLE BROTHER, SEUNG-HYUK Egypt |6' | Director Hossam MOUSA,Ahmed RAAFAT Korea |19'09| Yara MAGDY,Amr GALAL,Zahra ASHRAF Director KIM Deokgeun| Helwan University Korea National University of Arts Rahaal is an ordinary book like all other Seung-hyuk has been sacrificing a lot for books which are existed in Arab world.It his older brother Min-hyuk who is tells the catastrophe of the book which suffering from ADHD.He finds out that is treated badly and carelessly,it also his mother,who is divorced from his tells the meaningless of reading in our father and about to leave home,is countries at modern times. The film tells planning to take Min-hyuk with her. the story of the book from its beginning Seung-hyuk doesn't want to concede before printing to its sad end. this time,so he sends Min-hyeok to school all by himself. APOLLYON THE WATCHMAKER United States |6'48| Director Matthew BURKETT| Australia | 9'59| Scottsdale Community College Director Kai D'AMOUR| (Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg) Christian Heritage College A woman's suffering may bring about It's only when time is taken from us that monstrous consequences for humanity. we realized how precious it is.An old watchmaker travels back through his past in search of redemption. NARRATIVE
THE VICTORY OF CHARITY Austria | 24'14 Director Albert MEISL University of Music and Perfoming Arts Vienna Bican GErSUKS GIAXREN METHICDE Musicologist Mr Szabo has dedicated the rare piece, Szabo doesn't shy away himself to collecting archival material from a veritable break-in.Hlis young, from the history of Austrian pop music. aspiring colleague Mr Fitzthum helps him Due to a unfortunate coincidence,an - not entirely voluntarily. Because unlike original stage costume of a Viennese Szabo he has a lot to lose: his job,his beat band from the 6os landed in a career and above all,his freedom. charity clothing collection.To retreive SHE DREAMS A FEW KNOTS AWAY United Kingdom | 9'33 United Kingdom | 15'| Director Joseph DALY| Director Mansour FOROUZESH University of the Arts London Metropolitan University MIA,who has hopes of becoming an Due to unbearable conditions,the actress, but starts having a series of people were forced to leave the island. paranoia nightmares that her landlady is Haj Habib died last night and his son letting men into her room at night, Hashem came from overseas for taking believing that the lure of acting in the body to another place,out of the London was just a ruse, and men are island. but the sea is rough and also the physically taking out her organs. people disagree with him, even his sister Atiye. 46 GUEAC018 つ
DAS SOFORTBILD-SYSTEM 63 Germany | 12'38 | Director Philipp LINK| HFF-University of Television and Film Munich A 1963 TV-news report about a unique them to people around the world experiment:The Hermanns, a typical through hundreds of channels. But how German family, is selected as one offirst does the new technology change the households to try out the new lives of the Hermann family members Sofortbild-System 63 by the national who just want to get a glimpse of the German television. The family can now world out there? use a special TV which could connect P SCRAPS Germany | 19'28 United Kingdom | 10'25 Director Marcus HANISCH Director Chris BRAKE| German Film and Television Academy Berlin London Film School To unburden himself from his feeling of When lonely hoarder Gordon Grott guilt,scientist "P" transfers a traumatic builds a surrogate family from household memory to an android robot girl. waste, little does he realize that his boy Meanwhile the robot starts to remember made of trash has a life of his own. details of P's life, that P has already forgotten. A surreal stream of consciousness that contains memories, conversations and the most important question of all. |NARRATIVE
THE LAST LULLABY Denmark| 10'| Director Birgit KASPER The European Film College It is about a family tragedy based on of fate. The father hears the news in the true story. One day when a ten-month- most unpleasant way possible,while the old baby took his first step, nobody mother and granddfather are desperately could imagine the next day would be his fighting to save the baby's life. When last one, but that's exactly what the father arrives, his worst nightmares happened.This story follows a young are confirmed,the little life has gone. family: a firefighter, his wife, and a baby The everyday hero,devoted to hisfamily boy.A beautiful spring day, something and dedicated to saving the lives of happened that no one expected.An strangers,had to face the reality of uncontrollable force of nature wind took death once again,but this time around away their baby's life in a twisted game in a very personal way. MAHAANTAM VAISHALI India | 9'33 | India |28'11| Director Prachi SHARMA Director Shridhar SUDHIR State University of Performing and Visual arts, National Institute of Design Rohtak The film follows the life of Gauri, a The film is about a girl who due to family 7-year-old girl, over four days, where a problems went to a canal to commit small, insignificant incident at her school suicide. There she met a boy who gives rise to a series of events which changes her mind. lead to a grave end. It is her first glimpse into the ugly sideof nationalism,a concept she is not able to comprehend in its entirety,but which makes a lasting impression on her young mind. GUFA 2018
GIRL IN THE GALACTIC SUN Canada | 10'45 | Director Heather PERLUZZO Vancouver Film School The Gemini are a genderless alien overwhelming mental trauma a woman species who have discovered they'll must endure. Gemini 944 is unique become extinct if theydon't find a way among the Gemini,its strong will and to reproduce. After years of searching, empathy makes it the best candidate to they encountered humans and their successfully transition into a woman. reproductive method,this in addition to G944 arrives to the Galactic Sun Facility their Gemini similarities has brought unaware of the risks, but her desperation them hope. However, the female to understand what it is to feel like a metamorphosis from Gemini to human woman leads her down a dangerous has not been successful due to the path. THE INLAND SEA LIMIT United Kingdom| 7' | Iran | 7' | Director Simon NUNN| Director Javad DARAEI| Norwich University of the Arts Elmikarbordi (The University of Applied Science and Technology) The Inland Sea is a meditative journey Someone in a quiet area asked help from into the mind of a female victim of the people who he sees till someone domestic abuse,the unnamed enters the house and suddenly... protagonist meandering through her memories, fantasies and dreams whilst over a cup of tea on a hazy summers afternoon. The film oscillates between the past and present,expressing the characters feeling of entrapment of her paradoxical emotions of love and hate towards her deceased partner. | NARRATIVE
LITTLE DARLING PABLO United States | 13'38 | Belgium |16'05 | Director Michael OSHINS Director Sergio Guataquira SARMIENTO American Film Institute I.A.D (Institut des Arts de Diffusion) During a routine music copyright Months after a violent separation, Anouk infringement case,courtroom sketch and Pablo have to meet two members artist, William Darling, is triggered into of the Ministry of State at Anouk's place alarming imagery from his past. to have the legal authenticity of their cohabitation validated.This is very important for Pablo to be able to regularize his status as a foreigner in Belgium. He must convince Anouk to pretend to be a couple again for one hour. 50 GUFA 2018
SCREENING EXPERIMENTAL SCREENING TIME:7-NOV (Wed)2018 VENUE:AAB 201 TIME:15:00-18:00 JOURNEY LES HOMARDS IMMORTELS (NIGHT SONG) Australia |7'40 Director Radheya JEGATHEVA Belgium |13'13 |Director Kate VOET Curtin University LUCA School of Arts R n Alone in space, an astronaut drifts Over the course of a lengthy night,Alba through the empty void. After finding and Max meet after a brief and crude another astronaut in the same separation,rediscovering each other while predicament, she gives him a polaroid uncovering their motivations and desires image of the Earth. They then team up against the backdrop of an anonymous, to go on an epic journey across the foreign city. They find themselves universe to return to their planet.Will balancing on the thin line between these star-crossed lovers find home? solitude and establishing a connection. PROJECTIONS OF A BEAUTIFUL CREATURE Colombia |4'38 | Director Estefanny RIOS Universidad del Valle (University of Valle) ■yecciones de una Hierncsa Criaiu A relationship that transmutes,the that transforms how we see ourselves and appearance that seizes the body,the that, in its process, subjects the body to obsession built from an ideal. "Projections stop being what it is, to pass to be a of a Beautiful Creature" poses the image canvas loaded with prejudices, demands. of the ideal of beauty,represented by In the end,how much of your body can Marylin Monroe, as a performative element you lose and keep recognizing you?
REALITY FRAGMENT 160921 China,United Kingdom | 13'35 Director April LIN, Jasmine LIN Jiaotong University Goldsmiths University of London Our own histories are always under distance, as they go through the motions curation, and as such,our perspectives of growving themselves by growing their become the central point in the building of universes.We witness not only their personal realities.How do these multiple movements, but also partake in the lived worlds,each their own amalgamation thoughts of two witnesses and howvby of memories,sensations,thoughts,coexist seeing these two people,worlds are with de facto presentations of distance, merged. In turn, we ask you, a viewer of history,and totality?Reality Fragment this film and thus also a witness, to pay 160921 follows two people in their process attentionto your own movements of of reality-curation, as they create their own perception and reflect around the ways in spaces against and via understandings of which you build your own world. MOSCOW DEJA VU Russia |3'45| United Kingdom | 5'15 Director Ararat GULANYAN Director Jamie BAKER| VGIK (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography) Ulster University Moscow is a typical metropolis: a large Dave, a young ambitious business man is crowd of people,traffic jams,polluted late for an important meeting.He ecology,the threat of terrorism, attempts,repeatedly,to leave the unemployment,crime,constant waves corridor by going through a door,only of migrants.The reason is oil. Oil... Oil... to find himself back where he started. Oil... But some doors are best left closed!
MOTHER JA:PA Uzbekistan |16'43| Czech Republic |3'11 Director Abdurahmonov BOTIR Director Jiri KARMASIN llkhomjonov ABDUAZIM| Divadelni fakulta JAMU Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture War. And not only on the front line,but The film was made as cooperation also in the deep rear, in Uzbekistan. And between two Czech Art schools. Project for this war there is no difference who is called Dancing Films from the Depth. you are: a child, a disabled person or a The Depth is name of the industrial area woman.But you can defeat death.You in Ostrava city. So we take the name a just need to stay human. bit deeper and tried to experiment, technically and also with the plot. JA:PA stands for mysterious playful person imprisoned in unhappy place. Is this all only a dream, or we someday suddenly wake up... Wake up to what? SOLDAT United Kingdom | 4'21| Director Cristian lonut NECULA | University of Portsmouth Costel Draghici, a Reserve General of the foundations of loyalty to his co- the Romanian Armed Forces,grew up in workers and love tohis close relatives. a politically unstable country during Despite the turmoil and adversity he wartime and faced the revolution while faced throughout his life, now at 85 he working as the director of the only can safely say he had a successful Missile Factory in Romania. He was a career,but his greatest achievement is military man who continuously ascended his auspicious family. in his career and built a happy family on 53
DREAMWEAVER United States |6'15 Director Katherine RYSCHKEWITSCH, Erich SCHULZ University of Central Florida The Chippewa tribe believes that Asibikaashi, the spider woman, protects children from bad dreams at night by weaving dream catchers to hang above their heads when they sleep.In Dreamweaver, she teaches Namid,a scared eight-year-old Chippewa girl who suffers from nightmares,to overcome her fears. LEAK I WAS LOST.NOW I'M NOT. United States |3'50 Director Gabriel INGHILTERRA United Kingdom |4'21 Full Sail University Director Constantinos CHRISTOU Plymouth College of Art This short film was made with basically There are times when I feel lost, unsure, no budget but with a lot of creativity and unable to understand where l and passion.With only one actress, one stand,where l belong, or where l location, zero dialogue and three crew should go. By embracing the members, we managed to give life to a unpredictable and by trusting my simple but engaging story.A young capacity to cope no matter what, I can artist woman is sitting on the stairs of a step out of my comfort zone and building sketching a butterfly.When become a more understanding and finished, a drop of cloudy water falls on more compassionate person because of her sketch, she tries to clean it but ends it. up staining it. She stares where the drop came from,while a strange sound comes out of it, suddenly the loud slam of a door scares her as a boy passes by her and continues down the stairs.Alone again,she realizes that there is a real butterfly resting over her sketch.....
ANPADH India |5'52 Director Ayush TANDON Pearl Academy The core objective of the movie is to together.The movie depicts the sad create awareness about the educational reality of girls in our country that we are situation girls are experiencing in this all well aware of. Instead of going down country,highlighting the role played by the usual route of portraying the girl as parents. In a society fueled by a helpless victim, the film brings hope patriarchy,I have shown the importance into the storyline.I wanted to show this of a supportive male member. While I story in a different light.A light of hope, don't in any way support this mindset,I because there is still room for change, felt the need to show the bond between we are all going through change and we siblings in a slightly different way.One must strive towards the positives of it. where they would break the system FISSO Taiwan |8'46| Director Raito Jing Yi LOW Shih Chien University This story came from my father with my special daily life with my thoughts about thoughts about hometown. My father is family.The story is about the changing a photographer workaholic and so affection of a cameraman family.If there caring of his camera that even my is no any feeling between the two of mother began to doubt their love so couple, even live together just like two much, I saw it but I could do nothing. separated heart.How can a broken So I made this story,using the camera as heart become completed? a medium,adding these insignificant but 55
FOLLOWER WORM Germany | 9'56| Director Jonathan BEHR Uzbekistan| 7'05| Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg Director Samugjanov ABROR| (Film Academy Baden-Wurttemberg) Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture Clara Reichert only wants to spend a A lonely old man in the desert found his casual evening babysitting in a rich dream in his headphones.ln my film family's house, when she gets a new "Worm" I would like to show one of the follower for her Instagram account. But biggest ecologic problem of 21 century, this one is different.This one is not easy which is not only the problem of Central to shake off. He follows her not only in Asia but the whole world's, "Aral Sea" the digital world -he stalks in the real problem andstory about old man who world too. Even as Clara calls her misses the sea. The film was shot on the boyfriend Patrick for help, the situation February of 2018 in Muynak, is only getting worse,because the Karakalpakstan.This film is my diploma follower has anything but good work in the university. intentions.While Patrick is on his way to save her,she barricades herself inside the house. DEKKO United States | 8'53 1 Director Even WU| University of Southern California DEKKO is a film about an ordinary lures him entering the creepy delivery man delivers foodto an apartment.The sense of anxiety is in the unordinary apartment where no one air and it continues to grow as he finds answers the door.One peep through out the horrifying connection between the doorframe scares him as the his past and this very apartment. apartment clearly has signs of struggle. He wants to escape yet a strangely familiar old melody coming from inside 56 PANO QUADRAT ZEITRAFFER FOTO
PANIK Belgium|4'52| Director Mohamed ZIANI Karel de Grote University College EEN WIJK VOOR IEDER VAN ONS 25g UDD POAC:"IEDEREN STUK TAARE The film shows a black and white neighborhood with towering buildings. animation film in which every frame is Hle investigates the leaders of painted manually.This quest for 'consciousness-makers' from the past authenticity is expressed through strong and tries to capture the future in his art. dynamic images that create an almost He transforms into a crow that perceives surrealistic atmosphere by means of everything from above.A bird that movement.The animated film shows a symbolizes freedom, but the crow character that reflects to himself and the symbolizes something that is sad.He world around him.As a young man from seeks, observes, thinks, philosophises a social and social disadvantaged and experiments. He makes and passes neighborhood,he investigates his on. environment and surroundings,a iVE! United States | 13'10 Director Zubaidah K. WAAJID Loyola Marymount University As a witness of the brutal rape and while chasing her mother's memory.This murder of her mother while crossing the film touches on the larger issue of sexual border,Ru, 9, is disjointed from reality. violence against migrant women and She experiences a metaphysical journey the grief that follows. 57 一EXPERIMENTAL 一
HOW FAR IS THAT MOVED TO TIERS India |4'36| Director Akashdeep DEKA, Kularanjan MEDHI United States | 11'10 Mridupawan PARASHAR Director Avery HERZOG| Tezpur University Ithaca College In an effort to gallop with the Two wedding cake toppers come to life happenings of his time, a man may lose in a bakery, and escape away to have all his gears.One may afar from the their own wedding. crowd, another might put up a fight. Does this dark route emit any light? DONUTS United States |21'04| Director Brendan ANDUZE Woodbury University While on his way home from a funeral, the man tries to figure out the an unnamed man finds himself trapped conditionsof his stay, he realizes that he inside a late night donut and coffee may have bitten off more than he can shop under the supervision of its chew. mysterious owner and operator,Sam.As 58 GUEA2018
SCREENING CHINESE NARRATIVE SCREENING TIME:7-NOV (Wed)2018 VENUE:SCC 201 TIME:14:00-18:00 TRICK 一場名叫張伯的惡作劇 Taiwan | 20'| Director CHEN Pei Kai 陳培凱|Shih Hsin University 世新大學 Jian Lun gets really annoyed that the He got really mad with Mr Chang as he security guard bothers him too much. thinks that no matter what, a security One day,Jian Lun had a really bad guard should never leave his duty.Jian stomachache and realized that he has Lun decides to pull a prank on Mr Chang forgotten to bring his access card along. with his girlfriend and buddy. Mr Chang was away from his work duty. BLUE-TALES FROM LUCKY SUBURBIA United States | 9'54 Hong Kong | 11'01 | Director DAI Zhenni| Director Vivian LAU | Emerson College Hong Kong Baptist University 香港浸會大學 A young Asian American girl growing up Today was supposed to be Jack's last in the suburbs of America has her day in life.On his way to revenge,he childhood interrupted by the met someone who changed his life.It disappearance of a local teen. became a lucky day... 59 一CHINESE NARRATWE I
ABANG 阿邦 Taiwan |20'|Director LOW Chia Xuen 劉家軒| Taiwan Yi-Shou University 台灣義守大學 Malaysia is a multiracial country with the misunderstandings and arguments long-established ethnic conflicts since it with his brother. Gradually,Yu Le finds gained independence in 1957. Yu Le and the atmosphere in the group opposes Yu Bang, a pair of non-biological his belief and values. Meanwhile, waves brothers, was raised under such of remorse and condemnation from their circumstances. Even though Yu Le is of mother have flooded Yu Bang for his Malay descent, nonetheless, Yu Bang still behaviour towards Yu Le.While trying to loves him unconditionally regardless of reunite with each other, they also race.However,Yu Le starts getting improve their flaws and acknowledge involved in an extremist group after that their love has overcome racial running away from home one day due to barriers. DINNER FOR TWO 雙人晚餐 Taiwan|14'58 |Director JI Jiajia紀佳佳| National Taiwan University of Arts 台灣藝術大學 In order to please her vegetarian piece of steak on her birthday,which husband A-Liang,newly-wed housewife brings up a series of conflicts in her Xiao Xiao suppresses her desire for marriage. eating meat.However,she receives a 60 GUFA 2018 | SCREENING |
DISCONNECTION 斷綫 China | 16'52 | Director ZHANG Hangshuo 張航碩 Communication University of China 中國傳媒大學 Lin Bingxin is an ordinary college woman then drove away."Ordinary student.He often drives a bright red car. Man" also shares a picture of Lin and his One day,his mother calls him and asks friend posing near the red car. It hints him if he has recently committed that Lin is the perpetrator. Lin and his anything.Then, a friend sent him a parents ask a journalist for help and he Weibo (Chinese micro-blogging site) starts to be convinced that his classmate screenshot of the user "Ordinary Man".It Xu Kai is the "Ordinary Man". Yet, Lin is turns out that there was a car crash making a terrible but unwittingly earlier today.A red car hit a pregnant mistake... HEY!THE YOUNG BLIZZARD NIGHT MAN! 夜幕降臨 嘿!年輕人 Taiwan | 10' | China|27'20|Director YANG Ke 楊珂 Director SYU Jhih-Han 許志漢| Communication University of China National Taiwan University of Arts 台灣藝術大學 中國傳媒大學 If there is a chance let you meet your A father and his son involved in the same younger self,what will you say to car crash. This incident and constant yourself? In this film,60-year-old blackmailing become a recurring hairdresser Lao-Liou has a rough time nightmare for both of them. Under the learning stylish haircuts.He has a chance great stress, they start to give in more to meet his younger self and does a and more...The truth of the crash is haircut for him.Through the process,he about to come out, and neither of them realises that he is still full of hope, just knows what the irrational decisions will like a young mnan. lead them to.... 一CHINESE NARRATIVE 一
THE AFTERMATH 劫後餘生 China |19'11 | Director 王瀟余 MeiShi Film Academy of ChongQing University重慶大學美視電影學院 In order to raise money for his grandpa's to obtain the password of the safe. treatment, Niu Bo sneaks into a house to When Bo is leaving the house with steal but he mistakenly kidnaps the money, Luo has a sudden heart attack. unrelatable nurse Qiu Yue.Meanwhile, He releases the nurse Qiu Yue the house owner grandma Luo comes immediately to rescue her. After he back home. She mistakes Bo for her son leaves,his gut feeling tells him that who studies abroad as she suffers from there is something wrong in the house... dementia. So he pretends to be her son XI ER BEFORE THE EXAM 喜兒 考試前 China | 18'12 China|18'| Director Tosuki ZHANG 張汐羽| Director CHEN Minzhi 陳敏之| BNU-HKBU United International College Chang'an University 長安大學 北京師範大學-香港浸會大學聯合國際學院 He Kexi is an orphan who has been Before the high school entrance exam, laughed at and bullied by others the 3rd exam paper was stolen. There throughout his life.He transfers to a new are Hong Kong people,Guangzhou school but the bullying still sticks with people, Outsiders, a teacher and a him.The only person who cares himnis student. Four stories, which one do you his teacher, Weian, who was like an believe? angel to him but turned out to be the one hurts him badly. He Kexi is stuck between hope and despair,what does he finally deserve? 62
DARE NOT FLY 盲鳥 Taiwan |18'20 | Director CHEN Chu Yi 陳楚儀| National Taiwan University of Arts 台灣藝術大學 Shen Si Yan is chained to the strict mother still does not allow her to make control of her mother. She becomes a her own decisions. She gives her all to blindfolded bird who does not dare to satisfy her mother's endless demands, fly. When it comes to daily chores, but her mother keeps riding roughshod friends,work, or relationship, her mother over her opinion in the name of love. always interferes. Even after Si Yan has How can Si Yan survive, while her life is already entered the workforce,her out of her control? KNIGHT 騎士 China |36'39 | Director DAI Yi Fei 戴軼飛| Shanghai Theatre Academy 上海戲劇學院 Li Xiafeng is a young deliverer.Being be upgraded to the legendary rating: optimistic, upright,and too ordinary "Sacred Knight".Being the first "Sacred makes him a typical young man born in Knight" among the others becomes Li's the 1990s.One day,the online food dream. He is full of confidence to win delivery platform starts an event called the first place.However, after he takes "Crazy Scrambling"to celebrate its off for the journey, the absurd reality hits tenth anniversary.Any deliverers who him hard. It is so absurd that even makes can finish 66 orders within 12 hours can him doubting about his life. 63 山≥ ПUпNARR
SCREENING CHINESE NARRATIVE SCREENING TIME:8-NOV.(Wed)2018 VENUE:AAB 201 TIME:14:30-18:30 THE WINDS OF THE WIND 風吹過的日子 China |17'46| Director LIN Yucheng 林煜城| Zhejiang University of Media and Communications 浙江傳媒學院 It is a story about a high-school graduate learning the truth of his mother's leaving juvenile who possesses the longing toward and the breakup with his girlfriend,he his mother and always has the grows sympathy on his father. misunderstanding towards his father.After ADULTING 成人中 Hong Kong |34' | Director WONG Ping Hei 王秉熹| Hong Kong Baptist University 香港浸會大學 Freshly graduated and freshly between two clueless twenty- unemployed, Marina, an idealistic fine somethings who are too narcissistic to art student who is living off of her best be aware of their cluelessness,adult-ing friend, Wu, struggles to make her meal tells a "staying-their-age" story of ticket stay in Hong Kong. So she tries to people who learn nothing from society clear her debt to him by living off of but have everything to say about it. another friend, and this time, it involves Because they are not yet adults,they a very deadly weapon.A dramedy that are adult-ish, and they are adult-ing. follows a toxically symbiotic relationship | SCREENING GUFA 2018
PLEASE TRANSLATE LOVE AFTER LOVE 不曾見過 United States | 6' | Director Kelsy LUA China | 36'06 |Director DOU Haidong 竇海棟 University of Southern California Communication University of China 中國傳媒大學 鳥 Please Translate explores how language The screenwriter, Luonan,enters the divides but eventually bridges the world of the script while rewriting it. relationship between a mother (Wang Since the script is adapted from his Yu) and her daughter (Mei Lan). In a film previous relationship, it brings him deep about sacrifice,hardships and ultimately down into memories.Wandering a mother's love, Mei Lan comes to through the virtual world constructed by realize how special their bond truly is. memories and the script, he has a special encounter with the characters. WE OUTLAWS 紅裙下 China |34'28 | Director WANG Kaixuan 王凱旋| Zhejiang University of Media and Communications 浙江傳媒學院 Chen lives in the 1990s as a factory citizens of sex crime while they only worker.He is anordinary man in the wanted to love and be loved.Nowadays, daytime, but he becomes a SHE at night. even though the "Indecent Assault"is Soon he realises that he wants more alreadly removed, there are still many than dressing like a woman. The storm is misunderstandings towards LGBTQ+. waiting for him to change his life They still are taboo or even like demons forever... to some people.I shoot this short film to From 1979 to 1997 in China,there were tell this tale as I want to show how one many people arrested for "Indecent can live through that tough time 30 Assault".This offence accused many years ago. Г一Γ
CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH 胡不歸 Hong Kong | 18'|Director CHOW Lok Sum 周樂燊 Hong Kong Baptist University 香港浸會大學 The once-famous Wenwusheng Chiu as well as guilt and regret. The son Chun-fan gave up the opportunity to Jyut-sing loves rock music, but his father see of his wife for the last time for a does not understand that. They have a performance. It worsened the big fight.The intervention of the student relationship between him and his son Li Sum-ah changes the relationship Jyut-sing. He later left the Cantonese between the father and son. opera stage because of health problems, FAREWELL,SUMMER NIGHT 雨季不再來 Hong Kong|39'26 | Director HUANG Xiaopeng 黃曉鵬 Hong Kong Baptist University 香港浸會大學 Fang, an ordinary senior student, finally While facing up withsimilar pressure gets the chance to contact with his from the public exams,these four dream girl Xia by participating in the interrelated young souls are also Coming-of-age Ceremony. But he soon experiencing their own coming-of-age realises that his best friend Han and the stories... class monitor Li also has feelings for him. 66 趙颦娘之 GUFA 2018
CHAMELEONS 變色龍 Hong Kong|23'|Director CAI Zherui 蔡哲睿 Hong Kong Baptist University 香港浸會大學 Director John is writing a story about and hands a prop gun to Xiao Mo.While murder.However, he fails to develop the Xiao Mo pulls the trigger, Lulu falls to the story because of lacking murder ground,bleeding.Xiao Mo never experience.An actress Lulu is seeking an expects this and he gets frightened. opportunity for her nameless boyfriend Meanwhile, the camera is rolling, Xiao Mo.They happen to get a chance everything is being recorded... from director John,which they are eager for so long. John sets a casting at home MISTY 隔山海 China|17'49 | Director Alice CHEN 陳栩瑩 BNU-HKBU United International College 北京師範大學-香港浸會大學聯合國際學院 Dayou and Xingzi were a pair of lovers world.One day,the factory manager living in the underclass. They eloped to rapes Xingzi, their peaceful life is a factory and planned to start a new life. disrupted. Facing the helpless Xingzi, However,the tedious life and the Dayou chooses to end all of this in his injustices of the people around them own way. gradually distance themselves with the 67
SCREENING CHINESE NARRATIVE SCREENING TIME:8-NOV (Wed)2018 VENUE:AAB 201 TIME:09:30-12:30 THE DEATH OF A CROW 小鳥在前面帶路 China |23'34|Director LIU Hanwen 劉瀚文| Nanjing University of Art 南京藝術學院 Lock Lou, is going to complete a mission he loses a motorcycle and meets a with his friend's ashes. During this trip, series of ridiculous things... THE NIGHT WITHOUT STARS 失聲 China |35'17 | Director ZHOU Bowen 周博聞| Zhejiang University of Media and Communications 浙江傳媒學院 After being indecent by the teacher of hurt by the network violence. Finally her the training class, Lu Jingyan was angry mother knew that and told her not to and grieved, but She has nobody to tell. tell anyone.Her boyfriend had promised Lu's parents quarreled every day.The to help her but finally he ran away. In parents did not care about her. She tried desperation, she could only go to to communicate with her friends but the revenge by herself.When she turned friend did not help her.She tried to upstairs, she saw her wounded father release it through the network but was standing in front of him. 68
WHERE IS SPRING 李理的白日夢 Hong Kong |25'52 | Director XIAO He 肖鶴 Hong Kong Baptist University 香港浸會大學 Little boy Li Li's home moved from Li.Li Li decides to draw the attention of country to town. His father,however, his mother in his own way one day.To died accidentally and left his mother to him, this day is a normal day, but also a support the family alone,who eventually fancy day... drifted into prostitution and snubbed Li 17 YEARS 若蟲知了 Hong Kong | 59'57 | Director TO Chun Him 杜震謙| City University of Hong Kong 香港城市大學 A story about a 17 years old.Cheung activities in class to gainhis confidence. acted weirdly as defined by his He later encountered the consequence classmates.An introvert that smelled when the crowd in class changed their badly,they said. Classmates therefore point of view and blamed him for teased and eventually bullied him.Being harming Cheung.Yu was a loving and ignored along the school life,Cheung caring girl.She had a crush on Kwong enjoyed the attention and gossip since the beginning while he took the instead. He was not the stereotype kind advantage for granted and never of victim.The distant and worsening noticed her feelings. This kind of bond relationship with family was the major and interdepence was broken by factor that distorted his traits and value. Cheung for the misunderstandings.As a Kwong made use of his self- whole,their school life was surrounded centeredness as a shield to protect his by the effects of bullying and all can not fragile innerself.He led the bullying evade from being hurt. 69
THE DARKENED SKY 天將暗 China |21'18 |Director WEI Zhe 韋哲| Beijing Film Academy Modern Creative College 北京電影學院現代創意媒體學院 A car accident,4 people, the dark road, understanding towards Lin Shengming. who is the real wrecker? In the glee Liao Ping,an intern student of Lin feast, Lin Shengming was the shining Shengming' s law office, had a secret star, who won the lawsuit that helped crush on Luo Ning,pouring his heart to him to gain both money and fame.Luo her in the glee feast by the help of Ning,who just got her lawyer' s alcohol but failed... license,hoped to have a deeper BARON SAMEDI 公廁迷奇II Hong Kong |11'14 | Director ZHAO Zhenyu,YANG Darong Hong Kong Baptist University 香港浸會大學 A more than 40-year-old man who had for help, he was immediately pinched nothing to do,woke up to find himself in the neck,after a desperate struggle in a panic laying on the handicapped to break free,the man found that the toilet's floor, he does not remember man who had pinched his neck was how he came here,then found himself himself;fearing his lost memory and penniless. The man tried to open the this weird disabled toilet, he suddenly door with a headache but found heard a trance of a girl in the water pipe himself locked in this weird disabled of the toilet sink... toilet. Just as the man tried to cry out 70
SCREENING OVER THE HORIZON:ANIMATION SCREENING TIME:9-NOV (Fri) 2018 VENUE:AAB 201 TIME:12:30-13:00 LIVING LIKE HETA HONK Switzerland |6'12 Director Bianca CADERAS, Isabella LUU Kerstin ZEMP | United States | 2'56| Hochschule Luzern-Design & Kunst Director Triet LE | (Lucerne School of Art and Design) Virginia Commonwealth University 유 9 Heta lives with her pet seal in her highly COI (HONK) is a satirical animation peculiar house full of curious rooms and about abusive honking in Vietnam.The endless corridors.Her entire life consists film depicts motorists and drivers using of carefully planned avnd conducted their voices to honk to run pass each routines.When the latter get thrown other and the humorous consequences into disarray, Heta's world begins to which follow. crumble, until she feels compelled to make an irreversible decision. GP-TO France |7'27 Director Maxime GENTAL, Zoe Pelegrin-BOMEL, Edwin LEEDS, Pulkita MATHUR, Jonathan VALETTE, Catherine LARDE Supinfocom Rubika Everyday, a gigantic tube pours out an whose arm inharshly severed, and helps astronomic quantity of garbage in a him.The child,traumatised after waking huge bowl shaped dumpyard.A up, finally seems to have foundhis place creature, GP-to by name, made up of in this world with his new protector. these very wastes,takes in a young boy, 71 OVER THE HORIZ0N
OVER THE HORIZON: DOCUMENTARY SCREENING TIME:9-NOV [Fri) 2018 VENUE:AAB 201 TIME:13:00-16:00 LISTEN CITY OF WALLS United States | 13'09 Albania | 22'11| Director Min Min HEIN Director Eneos CARKA| The City College of New York University of Arts of Tirana "Listen" is a documentary portrait of This documentary gives an insight on revolutionary artist Chaw Ei Then. Exiled the street art & graffiti culture in Tirana, from her homeland of Myanmar, she uses Albania. During the shooting process, visually striking and emotionally unsettling City Hlall interferes in the art scene with performance art and artwork as a means their own project and creates a conflict of dissent,both to express her political with a political street art collective. views and to give voice to her victimized experience and inner struggles. DUST Germany|50'| Director Deepak TOLANGE Free University of Berlin Every year during winter thousands of and never return back to school. Nepalis and Indians migrate to various Dust is an attempt to find the parts of Nepal to work in brick factories. perspectives of children working in brick Many of these laborers are children who kiln areas in Nepal about their life,work drop out school,engage in hard labor and education. つ二カ>000
MEMORANDUM SALT Chile |15'| Portugal | 12'12 Director Jennifer LARA| Director Gwenn JOYAUX| Universidad Mayor (Major University) Lusofona University The anguish and darkness that is Aristotle, Cleopatra and Darwin breathed in the ex maternity hospital considered earthworms essential,even Barros Luco Trudeau through its old sacred creatures. But the only thingg we structure, its infinite corridors that fill learn about earthworms it's that if the void of hidden and repressed space. someone cut them in half, they will Its striped walls keep secrets,daily regenerate.This story demystifies that burdened with the absence and the belief.This is a story about someone illusion of hundreds of women who seek who was cut in two when she was born, the light that they never saw shine. but only one half made it through.The half with the head survived, as earthworms do. THE TWO HALVES United Kingdom |3'40| Director Mohammad Rakibul HASAN Falmouth University OUTH AMERIC Global warming seems to have more natural disasters like cyclone and severe impact on certain countries than oceanic tidal waves are affecting the others because of the way it affects the coastal area of Bangladesh.The coastal world climate.An immediate effect of lowlands of this country are inhabited global warming is the increased natural by millions of people who, ironically,are disasters like storm surge and flood, dependent on the sea for their while sea level rise is a slow,yet livelihood.Thus, Bangladesh is one of inevitable process. Bangladesh, the the scapegoats of climate change,a largest delta of the world is an obvious direct function of global warming. victim of global warming.An increase in 73
WINTER SUN HANDWRITING Bosnia and Herzegovina |30'| Russia |19'42| Director Pilar PALOMERO Director Sofiia SHAHAIEVSKA Sarajevo School of Scienece and Technology Krasnodar State Institute of Culture Nana, an eighty-year-old woman, is in a The orthodox church in Novosvetlovka need of surgery. She and her husband (Novosvitlivka) near Luhansk (Ukraine) leave their village of Hrsa and move was damaged in the course of the war. temporarily to Sarajevo, where they live Two young painters from Luhansk are with their daughter while awaiting the working on its renovation.However, procedure.Even though the couple none of them have ever painted for a loves being with their family,the wait for church before. the surgery drags on and Nana becomes increasingly home sick. The couple is promised that the suJrgery will happen very soon and that they need to be patient.As they linger longer away from their home,they miss their way of life, the mountains, and their daily routine. 74 GUFA 2018 | SCREENING |
OVER THE HORIZON: EXPERIMENTAL SCREENING TIME:9-NOV (Fri)2018 VENUE:AAB 201 TIME: 16:00-16:30 I'M NOT A ROBOT KAMPOS Israel |5'29| Venezuela,Bolivarian Republic of | 14'56 Director Lina TSIVIAN | Director Diego MURILLO Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (Andres Bello Catholic University) About the illusion of choice, the way in A family painting -and its eventual which social structures are disguised absence-triggers in the "The Young under the idea of free will.A belief system man" memories of his mother, the rural imposed on the subject and does not field and his last lover, while doubt nessicarily has his best interests at heart, brings him closer to violence. is the one propelling his life choices and his ideas concerning what to believe in, what to dream of,what or how to love, what is beauty, and what is right. NIGHT GUEST Kyrgyzstan |10'| Director Ziregul Kubandyk KIZI Kyrgyz Turkish Manas University A girl works as a security guard at a by his on the one hand surprising on the construction site and her life is other scary actions. These unexpected threatened when a stranger comes to events change.her life. her quarters at night. She is bewildered 75 一OVER THE HORIZON一
OVER THE HORIZON:NARRATIVE SCREENING TIME:9-NOV (Fri) 2018 VENUE:AAB 201 TIME:16:30-18:00 BRINE Lebanon | 1440 | Director Line ITANI Lebanese American University In a cement city reigned by drought, derive from their path to experience their survival is the only worry. In an effort to surroundings,becoming more and more subsist,people live off consuming water aware of their senses and interacting with and food replacements. Tears being the elements that are not their city's.The only remuneration possible,Aktham and struggle between walking straight and Sirab find themselves struggling to make a drifting off grows as they end up in a decent living. While Aktham resorts to cement dome,where the notion of straight physical damage to incite tears,Sirab, who is lost, and all sound is emphasized. WVhen had been living off her inheritance,finds the two reach the peak of their diversion, herself unwilling and unable to cry. The they find themselves facing the sea. two cross paths with a mnystic who,aware Aktham,witnessing the waves of pure of their state, sends them off to the emotion, stands still in contemplation while reservoir of the city's tears.She guides Sirab sheds her first tear. The two them to walk in a straight line until they surrender themselves to the water and reach the Eldorado.On their way,the two float endlessly. DAYBREAK ROOF KNOCKING Bosnia and Herzegovina | 8'25 Director Filip LONCARIC | Portugal | 12'14 Academy of Arts Banja Luka Director Sina KHALIGH (University of Banja Luka) Lusofona University A resolution of one unhappy Gaza, mid-Ramadan.A mother struggles relationship. to abandon her home as she receives a phone threat giving her 10 minutes to leave. What is lost when the bomb hits? 76 GUFA 2018 SCREENNG
SCHOOLYARD BLUES Sweden | 8'14| Director Maria Eriksson-HECHT Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts It's John's first day at school. just taking John to school. Mika sees it as Unexpectedly his eleven-year-old big his mission to teach John the hard facts brother Mika shows up to follow him to of the world,startingwith the merciless assembly. But Mika has plans other than demands of the schoolyard. WHAT REMAINS BEDERO Slovenia |20'| Pakistan | 22'40 Director Neli MARAZ | Director Nadeem ALAM| UL AGRFT (University of Ljubljana) National College of Arts, Lahore In the corridor, there's a light. He always The shepherd, loves his family as well as forgot to turn it off. In her hands a few cattle so much that one day he faces stones.The remains of something living. unforeseen situation...where he has to Out there somewhere a spot in the make a decision. grass, an imprint of two bodies. How to let go? 77 一OVER THE HORIZON一
MASTER CLASS Renowned filmmakers and artists as well as distinguished scholars and professionals in the creative media sector will be invited to hold master classes and exchange sessions. DATE: 8-NOV (Thu) & 9-NOV (Fri) 2018 VENUE:SCC 201 MASTER CLASS WITH MR MAX HOWARD "CREATING AN EFFECTIVE STORY AND HOW TO PITCH IT Day 2:8-Nov(Thu)2018 10:30-12:00 SCC 201 Moderator:Mr Michael Robinson (Lecturer,Academy of Film) ABSTRACT The key element in all great movies is 'story'. Without this ingredient, no matter how beautifully a film is created,it will not work.What are those key ingredients? Once you've created your story, how to sell it to studios in just a few short minutes -that's the 'art of the pitch'. SPEAKER: MAX HOWARD · over 30 year's animation industry working background ·worked on Disney's most memorable projects including "The Little Mermaid","Beauty and the Beast","The Lion King" · a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Max Howard, has over 30 years' animation industry working background. He created and ran studios for Disney in London, Paris, Orlando and Los Angeles,working on some of Disney's most memorable films including "Who Framed Roger Rabbit","The Little Mermaid","Beauty and the Beast", "The Lion King". As President of Warner Bros. Feature Animation, he oversaw such hit movies as "The Iron Giant" and "Space Jam". At DreamWorks he was co-executive producer for "Spirit", "Stallion of the Cimarron". Max is currently producing a series of animated feature films for Exodus Film Group. "Igor", the company's first production, was released in 2008."The Hero of Color City" opened in October 2014, with a third film, "Bunyan and Babe",recently completed. Max is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. 78 |MASTER CLASS | GUFA 2018
MASTER CLASS WITH MS CLARE STEWART "NAVIGATING INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS" Moderator:Mr Kit Hung Day 2:8-Nov(Thu) 2018 14:30-16:00 SCC 201 (Lecturer,Academy of Film) ABSTRACT In an industry that is rapidly changing,international film festivals continue to provide an important platform for introducing new and emerging talent to the film marketplace, global media and audiences around the world. Getting your film accepted into key international festivals not only provides exposure for the film and the filmmaking team, it is also an opportunity to meet film industry professionals who may buy your film for distribution or take a significant role in supporting your future projects. Clare Stewart will give an overview of the international festival circuit and advice on how to develop a festival strategy for your film.She will also provide insight into the programming process at film festivals and guidance on which festivals have formal marketplaces for both short and feature films. Clare will also give tips on how to ensure that you are festival ready, both in terms of delivering film materials when you are submitting your film and what you need to know about attending a festival as a filmmaker to ensure you get the most out of the experience. SPEAKER:CLARE STEWART ·British Film Institute's Head of Festivals and Director of the BFI London Film Festival Clare Stewart has been BFI Head of Festivals since 2011. She is currently on sabbatical from her role as FestivalDirector of the BFI London Film Festival (October) and BFI Flare:London LGBT Film Festival (March). Her 22-year film industry career has encompassed leadership roles asFestival Director, Sydney Film Festival (2006-2011) and the inaugural Head of Film Programs at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne (2002-2006) as well as various roles at the AustralianFilm Institute (1996-2001) and programmer and Committee Member of the Melbourne Cinematheque (1995-2002). She has served on the World Economic Forum's Global Advisory Council for the Creative Economies (2014-2016) and on competition juries at Sundance, Mumbai, Rio, Dubai, Hong Kong and Macau film festivals and the BAFTA Outstanding British Debut jury. 79
MASTER CLASS WITH MR TIM YIP "THE INVISIBLe GOLDEN AGE" Moderator:Mr Yimin Chen Day 3:9-Nov (Fri)2018 11:00-12:30 SCC 201 (Senior Lecturer, Academy of Film) ABSTRACT The future world has quietly come, but we have not yet transformed into the next era. We are stil obsessed with the limitations of the existing one,which will create a break, and the changes in the world will suddenly come and go beyond everything we know. This rapid transformation produces enormous energy.It will immersively transform space.At this time, I imagine that beyond thephysical world of infinite levels,there is a spiritual world that cannot be covered by time and space. It is the origin.The relationship between the spiritual and physical worlds has become a new landscape for human transformation. Multidimensional vision will change the look of the whole world. We will see more angles than we couldbefore. In the confused scenary, the spiritual world will spring up. SPEAKER:TIM YIP ·Winner of Academy Award for Best Art Direction, "Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon" As a world-renowned visual artist, art director for stage and film and fashion designer,Tim Yip continues to explore and communicate his aesthetic concept "New Orientalism", which is his interpretation of ancient culture as a means to inspire the future. He works widely in contemporary art, clothing, theatre, film, literature and other creative fields. For "Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon", Yip won the Oscar for "Best Art Direction", becoming the first Chinese to be awarded by the Academy, and the British Film and Television Academy award for "Best Costume Design", in 2001. 80 GUFA 2018 |MASTER CLASS |
MASTER CLASS WITH MR PAUL STEKLER "HOW TO MAKE A GREAT DOCUMENTARY IN 90 MINUTES" Moderator:Prof Zhu Ying Day 3:9-Nov (Fri) 2018 15:00-16:30 SCC 201 (Professor,Academy of Film) ABSTRACT All successful films,fiction and non-fiction, have the same things in common. Without compelling characters and stories, it'll be difficult to find an audience for your film. So what are you looking for, how do you know when you've found it, and how do you access it and use it to its fullest potential? Using a mix of film clips and advice from almost four decades of making documentaries, Paul Stekler, an experienced American filmmaker,will give you a summary of his take on making great documentaries. SPEAKER:PAUL STEKLER ·Award-winning documentary filmmaker,best known for his works on American politics ·Sundance Special Jury Prize: "George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire" Paul Stekler is a documentary filmmaker whose films abouJt American politics have won numerous national awards and have all been aired nationally on public television. His films include Sundance Special Jury Prize winner "George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire", the Peabody Award winning "Vote for Me:Politics in America", three films that aired on PBS's POV series ("Last Man Standing: Politics Texas Style"; "Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics"; and "Getting Back to Abnormal", about post Katrina New Orleans), and two of the Eyes on the Prize civil rights history series films.His most recent project,"Postcards from the Great Divide", was a series of short films about politics in nine states that launched on the Washington Post's website. Dr Stekler has a doctorate in American politics (Harvard '82) and was the Chair of the University of Texas' Department of Radio-Television-Film from 2010 to 2017. 81
AWARD PRESENTATION CEREMONY DATE: 9-NOV (Fri) 2018 VENUE:AC HALL TIME:19:00-21:00 LIST OF AWARDS Gold Award (Narrative and Chinese Narrative) Best Director (Narrative and Chinese Narrative) Best Script (Narrative and Chinese Narrative) Best Actor (Narrative and Chinese Narrative) Best Actress (Narrative and Chinese Narrative) Best Narrative Best Chinese-language Film Best Documentary Best Animated Short Film Best Experimental Short Film HKBU Academy of Film's Choice 82 | MASTER CLASS | GUFA 2018
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The 1st Global University Film Awards Building on 15 Years of Success of "Global Chinese Universities Student Film and Television Festival" "Global University Film Awards (GUFA) is to recognize globally the excellence of film productions by university students from across the world through connecting the global film community and its audiences with outstanding works and groundbreaking ideas.”" Our Journey GUFA builds on the success of the Global Chinese Universities Student Film and Television Festival (GCU), which was initiated by the Academy of Filmn,School of Communication of Hong Kong Baptist University in 2002. GCU is well recognized as an iconic university film event that fosters a collaborative relationship among film professionals, scholars and students in Hong Kong and those in the Greater China region. Since 2002, GCU has steadily gained recognition from tertiary institutions from home and abroad; In 2016,GCU introduced the Foreign Category to its short film competition in view of the Festival's growing popularity among the non-Chinese overseas film schools, and foreign entries were invited to compete for three Foreign Awards; Over the years, the Festival's star-studded award ceremonies have been broadcast by major Hong Kong television networks, including TVB,ATV,RTHK and ViuTV,and online platforms. Extending the award coverage to the whole world, this year, GCU is reborn and rebrand to become the Global University Film Awards amidst a growing international recognition of the wealth of creative talents of university students from around the world in movie production.GUFA is our collective global response to the call of the world's talented young. Mission GUFA strives to encourage and recognize emerging filmmakers among university students, foster creative exchange among film students around the world, and build synergy between regional young talents and international creative industry. To achieve the mission,GUFA offers a global platform, for showcasing talent, exchanging ideas and fostering network.
Programme Short Film Competition and Award Presentation Ceremony GUFA will showcase student films from around the globe to display a panoramic view of the inner world of the young filmmakers. It gives the aspiring filmmakers an international stage for them to be heard and seen, thus motivating them to further explore their potential. This year, the Short Film Competiton attracted a multitude of over 1800 submissions from film schools in 100 countries and regions. The short film competition is open to international university students,and invites submissions of five categories: Narrative, Narrative (Chinese),Documentary, Animation and Experimental. All entries will be subjected to a competitive selection process. The jury comprises world-class industry practitioners at home and abroad, including Oscar and Emmy award-winning masters. An Award Presentation Ceremony will take place on 9 November 2018 in Hong Kong to celebrate the outstanding productions. Chief award-winning entries will receive cash prize for each entry plus trophy. Master Class Renowned filmmakers and artists as well as distinguished scholars and professionals in the creative media sector will be invited to hold master classes and exchange sessions. Screenings To connect the filmmakers wvith the audience, student film screenings will be organized for open discussions and exchange of ideas. The films selected for the screenings will include shortlisted entries and outstanding student productions of the year. Pitching Participants are welcome, as individual or a group, to submit story ideas that have yet been put into production. Those who are selected will be given a chance to present their ideas. The adjudicators will comment on each pitch and the most outstanding presentations will be awarded. About the Organizer HKBU Academy of Film,School of Communication The School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University was founded in 1968.lt provides a comprehensive range of programmes in communication studies at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. The School maintains close connections with HongKong's media and creative industries. Meanwhile, the Academy of Film is dedicated to the provision of cinematic-arts and creative media education to nurture young talents into professionals who can contribute to the local and global arts and cultural industries. For the last four decades, it has been1 the chief provider of cinema, television and media education in Hong Kong. It is currently Hong Kong's flagship film school in terms of its size,breadth of programmes, distinguished alumni and strong industry connections.
Be part of the WOW event! The 1st Global University Film Awards (GUFA) celebrates young film talents from around the globe and recognizes their outstanding productions in its Short Film Competition. The organizing committee gratefully invites over 20 world-class film professionals and scholars to be the members of Judging Panel and more than 500 honorable guests comning from over 50 countries to attend the ceremony. Awards Gold Award HKBU Academy of Film'sChoice Best Narrative Best Script Best Actor Best Director Best Actress Best Documentary Best Animated Short Film Best Experimental Short Film Best Chinese-language Film Contact Website:http://af.hkbu.edu.hk/gusff/ Email:gusffest@hkbu.edu.hk Entry Statistic Update United States 283 34 Egypt 10 67 Algeria 2 United Kingdom 194 35 Malaysia 10 68 Belarus 2 China 169 36 Venezuela 10 69 Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 3 Lebanon 70 Dominican Republic 2 4 India 146 37 10 ST 5 Turkey 72 38 Romania 9 Finland 71 2 THE 6 Iran 53 39 Chile 72 lraq 2 7 G 40 Georgia 7 73 Nigeria 2 Germany 51 Brazil 49 41 Ireland 7 74 Norway 2 GLOBAL 8 48 42 Albania 6 75 Qatar 2 UNIVERSITY 9 Taiwan 2 FILM 46 43 Armenia 6 76 Saudi Arabia AWARDS Canada Slovakia 2 Hong Kong 44 44 Czech 6 77 38 45 Nepal 6 78 Sweden 2 12 France 46 Pakistan 79 Vietnam 2 13 Belgium 32 6 COUNTRIES 14 Russia 31 47 Slovenia 6 Azerbaijan 80 1 15 Australia 29 48 Ukraine 6 81 Cameroon AND 29 49 Ecuador 5 82 Cuba 16 South Korea REGIONS Philippines 29 50 Costa Rica 5 83 Ghana 17 OF 18 Singapore 28 51 Austria 4 84 lceland SUBMISSIONS 19 Israel 24 52 Bulgaria 4 85 Jordan 20 Indonesia 23 53 Estonia 4 86 North Korea Poland 21 54 Greece 4 87 Latvia 21 22 Bangladesh 20 55 Hungary 4 88 Macao Narrative 750 23 Italy 19 56 Japan 4 89 Macedonia Documentary 325 24 Argentina 18 57 Netherlands 4 90 Moldova 25 Spain 18 58 New Zealand 4 91 Mongolia Animation 346 16 59 Serbia 4 92 Myanmar 26 Mexico Narrative(Chinese) 172 27 Switzerland 14 60 Uzbekistan 4 93 Paraguay Experimental 295 28 South Africa 13 61 3 94 Sri Lanka Cyprus 29 Portugal 12 62 Kosovo 3 95 Tanzania 1841 30 Denmark 12 63 Kyrgyzstan 3 96 Trinidad and Tobago Total 31 Thailand 11 64 Lithuania 3 97 Tunisia 32 Colombia 11 65 Morocco 3 98 United Arab Emirates 33 Croatia 10 66 Afghanistan 2 99 Uruguay
Advisory Board Members Name Title |Awards Countyl Region 1. Chris BERRY Professor of Film Studies,King's College London United ·Scholar in Chinese and East Asian cinema Kingdom ·Jury for various film festivals 2. Sopawan Filmmaker and photographer Thailand BOONNIMITRA ·Lecturer in Chulalongkorn University 3. Roger CHRISTIANSEN Television Director United States Lecturer in the USC School of Cinematic Arts,Columbia University Film Division,Tokyo University of Technology,and The School of Film and Television in Cuba. Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, FRIENDS,2002 Emmy Award for Contribution on Best Comedy 4. Elizabeth DALEY Dean of the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) United States Independent producer and media consultant Twice nominated for Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards 5. Max HOWARD Animation Producer United The Animation Annie Awards,Los Angeles, 1998 Kingdom Animayo International Festival of Animation, Visual Effects and Videogames- Lifetime Achievement Award 6. Kelvin LEE Chairman of SINO-AMERICAN CULTURE ORG China Hollywood Producer, world-class cellist and music educator 7. Yizhong LI Head of The Department of Film and Television,Shanghai Jiao Tong University China Ph.D. Supervisor and Director of American Film Research Center Chinese College Association for Visual Art and Shanghai Radio and Television Society-The First Class Prize of Excellent Academic Article 8. Piyush ROY Critic, Curator, Novelist and Scholar India Consultant Writer,filmmaker, and photographer Indian National Film Awards-The Best Film Critic (Special Mention) Award, 2013 9. Nan Sun SHI Film Producer Hong Kong The Locarno Film Festival-Best Independent Producer Award, 2014 The Udine Far East Film Festival-The Golden Mulberry Life Achievement Award,2015 10. Ruo SI Associate Dean of the School of Phoenix,the Communication University of China China Teacher in the Theater,Film,and Television College Member of the China Television Producers Association and CCSMART Chief 11. Johnnie TO Film Director Hong Kong Hong Kong Film Awards-Best Director for The Mission,2000;PTU,2004; Election,2006 Golden Horse Awards-Best Director for The Mission,2000;Breaking News, 2004;Life without Principles,2012 12. Timmy YIP Film Art Director and Designer Hong Kong Academy Awards-Best Art Director for Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon, 2000 BAFTA Award-Best Costume Design for Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon, 2000
Juries Name Title |Awards| Achievements Countyl Region Marco MULLER Film Producer,Director of Pingyao International Film Festival Italy (Chair) ·Former Director of The Venice International Film Festival Russian Guild of Film Critics-Best Film,2005 The Japan Foundation-The Arts and Culture Prize,2008 1. Chris BERRY Professor of Film Studies,King's College London United ·Scholar in Chinese and East Asian cinema Kingdom · Jury for various prestigious film festivals 2. Geoffrey CAMPBELL Digital Modeling Supervisor Canada · Academy Awards-Best Effects, Visual Effects for Terminator 2:Judgment Day,1992;Jurassic Park, 1994 ·Responsible for digital modeling for 5 Oscar winning productions 3. Mark CHAIT Film Score Composer United States ·Three time Telly Awards winning composer ·Award-winner of Emmy Awards 4. Angie CHEN Documentary Filmmaker Hong Kong Golden Horse Awards-Best Documentary for This Daring Life,2008 5. Samuel CHOY Executive Producer Hong Kong Responsible for financing,production,distribution for all features and TV series of the original characters "Mcdull & Mcmug" ·General manager of Bliss ConceptsLimited the multi-media company 6. Roger CHRISTIANSEN Television Director United States Lecturer in the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Columbia University Film Division,Tokyo University of Technology,and The School of Film and Television in Cuba Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, FRIENDS,2002 7. Stephanie Hemelryk Professor of Comparative Film and Cultural Studies, UNSW Australia DONALD Chair,Norwegian Peace Film Award 8. Patrick FERLA Journalist,Writer Switzerland Jury,Un Certain Regard,The Cannes Film Festival,2010 9. Paul John GRIFFIN Animation Supervisor and Oscar-winning Visual Effect Artist Canada Academy Awards-Best Achievement in Visual Effects for King Kong,2006 Saturn Award-Best Special Effects of Star Wars: Episode I, 2000 10. Max HOWARD Animation Producer United The Animation Annie Awards,Los Angeles, 1998 Kingdom The Animayo International Festival of Animation,Visual Effects and Videogames:Lifetime Achievement Award 11. Daw Ming LEE Film Scholar and Producer Taiwan Professor and Chair of the Department of Filmmaking,Taipei National University of the Arts 12.Yong-kwan LEE Chair,Busan International Film Festival South Korea 13. Prapatsorn LERTANANTA Chairman of Design Program,Faculty of Architecture of KMITL Thailand Scholar in film theories and film history 14. Larry LEVENE Documentary Director,Producer Spain The ONDAS prize for In the Tibetan Labyrinth,2001 Shanghai Festival-Best Photography for Sadhus,2002
Name Title | Awards |Achievements County/ Region 15.Claude MOURIERAS FilmDirector and Screenwriter France ·Founder and Director of the CinéFabrique, a national higher education film and multimedia school 16.Jean PERRET Dean of the Cinema Dept,Geneva School of Art and Design Switzerland Delegate General of the Locarno Festival between 1990 and 1994 Director of the Visions du Réel, Switzerland's largest documentary festival, between 1994 and 2010 17. Resul POOKUTTY Oscar-winning Sound Designer India Academy Awards-Best Achievement in Sound Mixing for Slumdog Millionaire,2009 18. Nan Sun SHI Film producer Hong Kong The Locarno Film Festival-Best Independent Producer Award,2014 The Udine Far East Film Festival-The Golden Mulberry Life Achievement Award,2015 19. Shaoyi SUN Professor of Film and Media Studies at Shanghai Theater Academy(STA) China The NETPAC(Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) jury at multiple international film festivals including Golden Horse Awards (2015), Bangalore (2011), Singapore (2009), Brisbane (2007), etc. 20. Patrick TAM Film Director Hong Kong Golden Horse Awards-Best Feature Film for After This Our Exile,2006 Hong Kong Film Awards-Best Picture and Best Director for After This Our Exile,2007 21. Johnnie TO Film Director Hong Kong Hong Kong Film Awards-Best Director for The Mission, 2000; PTU,2004; Election,2006 Golden Horse Awards-Best Director for The Mission,2000;Breaking News, 2004;Life without Principles,2012 22.Chih-yen Yee Film Director Taiwan Taiwan TV Golden Bell Awards-Best TV series for Dangerous Mind,2007 Huabiao Film Awards-Outstanding Co-Production Film for About Love,2005 23. Li Fen ZHANG Professor and Senior Producer United Founding editor of FTChinese.com Kingdom . Asia's top press award BBC Onassis Bursary Award The State Street Award-Outstanding Contributions in Institutional Journalism 24. Dasheng ZHENG Film Director China Shanghai International TV Festival-Jury Prize for A Tao,2000 Beijing College Student Film Festival Best Director for Antique,2001 Hundred Flowers Film Festival-Golden Rooster Award for Death of Wang Bo,2005
THE GLOBAL UNIVERSITY FILM AWARDS A propos du GUFA Le"Prix International du Film des Universités (GUFA) a pour objectif de reconnaître l'excellence des productions cinématographiques d'étudiants universitaires du monde entier en mettant en contact la communauté cinématographique mondiale et ses publics avec des ceuvres exceptionnelles et des idées novatrices." Distinictions Prix d'Or,Académie HKBU du Choix du Film, Meilleur Récit, Meilleur Réalisateur, Meilleur Scénario, Meilleur Acteur, Meilleure Actrice, Mleilleur Documentaire,Meilleur Court Métrage Animé,Meilleur Court Métrage Expérimental, Meilleur Film en langue Chinoise. GUFAについて “グローバルユニバーシティワィルムアワード(世界大学映画賞GUFA)" は、画期的な取り組みやこれまでにないアイデアで国際 的な映画業界と観客とを繋げることで、世界中の大学生によって製作された映画の素晴らしさを世界的に広める為のものです。 アワード ゴールドアワード、HKBU フィルム学会賞、最優秀劇映画、最優秀監督、最優秀脚本、最優秀男優、最優秀女優、最優秀ド キュメンタリー、最優秀短編アニメーション映画、最優秀短編実験映画、最優秀中国語映画 GUFA 정보 "국제 대학교 영화 시상식 (GUFA)는 뛰어난 작품들과 획기적인 아이디어를 전 세계 영화 커뮤니티와 관객들을 연결하여 전 세계의 대학교 학생들이 만든 영상 제작물의 탁월함을 세계적으로 알리고자 하는 행사입니다." 시상식 골드 어워드, HKBU 영화학부의 선택, 최고의 극영화, 최고의 감독, 최고의 각본, 최고의 남배우, 최고의 여배 우, 최고의 다큐멘터리, 최고의 단편 애니메이션 영화, 최고의 실험적인 단편 영화, 최고의 중국어 영화. O BceмNpHOM фecTиBaлe CTyдeнчeских фильмов ПpeдHa3нayeниeм Bceмирного фестиваля студенческих фильмов (GUFA) яBлReTCя npизнaниe Macтepства студенческих кинопроектов на международном уровне, объединeниe MиpoBoro сообЩества кинематографа и зрителей и представление выдающихся работ и прогрессивных идей. Harpaдbl 《Золотая наградa», «Выбор Гонконгского баптистского университета», «Лучший сюжетный фильм», «Лучший режиссер», «Лучший сценарий», «Лучший актер», «Лучшая актриса», «Лучший документальный фильм», «Лучший короткометражный мультипліикационный фильм», «Лучший короткометражный экспериментальный фильм», «Лучший фильм на китайском языкe». Acerca de GUFA "El Festival Global Cinematográfico Universitario (GUFA) tiene como objetivo reconocer la excelencia de las producciones cinematográficas de los universitarios de todo el mundo conectando a toda la comunidad cinematográfica y a sus audiencias para dar a conocer trabajos remarcables e ideas únicas." Premios Premio de Oro,HKBU Academia de la Película Seleccionada, Mejor Narrador, Mejor Director, Mejor Guion, Mejor Actor, Mejor Actriz, Mejor Documental,Mejor Corto de Animación,Mejor Corto Experimental, Mejor Película en Chino.