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Network Coordinators<\/span><\/h5>\n
\"Chris<\/p>\n
Professor Chris Berry,
\nKing’s College London<\/h5>\n

Chris Berry has been attending both approved international film festivals in the Chinese speaking world and also independent film festivals. He is interested in the local (national, regional, city-based) characteristics and roles of these events.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Luke<\/p>\n
Dr. Luke Robinson,
\nUniversity of Sussex<\/h5>\n

Luke Robinson is lecturer in Film Studies in the Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex. He has a particular interest in the independent film festival circuit in the PRC, and the exhibition of Chinese-language film outside Asia.<\/p><\/div>\n

Participants<\/span><\/h5>\n
\"Dr.<\/p>\n
Dr. Hongwei Bao,
\nUniversity of Nottingham<\/h5>\n

Hongwei Bao is interested in alternative film festival practices, especially with regard to gender, sexuality, identities and social movements (such as queer film festivals and women’s film festivals), in mainland China.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Jenny<\/p>\n
Assistant Professor Jenny Chio,
\nEmory University<\/h5>\n

Jenny Chio is a cultural anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker. With Luke Robinson, she is engaged in a collaborative research project exploring post-socialist public culture, archives and social memory, and film festival spaces in China (particularly at the Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival).<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dina<\/p>\n
Professor Dina Iordanova,
\nSt. Andrew\u2019s University<\/h5>\n

Dina Iordanova has initiated and led research on various aspects of film festivals as part of her interest in film culture beyond the West, which spans to include Asia and China in particular.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Flora<\/p>\n
Flora Lichaa,
\nINALCO\/Paris 3<\/h5>\n

Flora Lichaa has conducted anthropological fieldwork on Chinese independent film festivals from 2009 to 2013 in the framework of a PhD research on Chinese independent documentary.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Karen<\/p>\n
Professor Karen Lury,
\nUniversity of Glasgow<\/h5>\n

Karen Lury\u2019s research is concerned with the representation of children and more recently children\u2019s film, particularly those films produced through national subsidies or philanthropic initiatives. Her interest in children\u2019s films extends to their exhibition and reception through Children\u2019s Film Festivals including those in Europe, North America, India, South Korea and China.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Gina<\/p>\n
Professor Gina Marchetti,
\nUniversity of Hong Kong<\/h5>\n

Gina Marchetti is conducting a major research project on Hong Kong women filmmakers, and their use of Chinese film festivals to promote their work.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Elena<\/p>\n
Dr. Elena Pollacchi,
\nCa’Foscari University\/Venice International Film Festival<\/h5>\n

In her travels and as she thinks about this network, Elena Pollacchi asks, will the ambitious and fastrising Beijing International Film Festival define its space in the already busy calendar of major festival events and increase its competition against the more established Shanghai International Film Festival?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ma<\/p>\n
Dr. Ma Ran,
\nOsaka City University<\/h5>\n

Ma Ran is currently working on a project exploring the film festival network in relation to the emergence and transformation of public culture in Asian cities, with specific attention directed to the independently-run festivals and the related circulatory entities and networks in Mainland China.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ming-Yeh<\/p>\n
Dr. Ming-Yeh Rawnsley,
\nUniversity of Westminster\/European Research Centre on Contemporary Taiwan (Tubingen)<\/h5>\n

Ming-Yeh Rawnsley is interested in the history and practice of film festivals in Taiwan, in particular the Golden Harvest Award (Jin sui jiang).<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Julian<\/p>\n
Associate Professor Julian Stringer,
\nUniversity of Nottingham<\/h5>\n

Julian Stringer wrote his PhD thesis on film festivals (Indiana University, 2003) and has published widely on the topic, including a co-authored chapter (with Nikki J. Y. Lee) on Chinese cinema at international film festivals for A Companion to Chinese Cinema (WileyBlackwell, 2012).<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Cindy<\/p>\n
Professor Cindy Wong,
\nCollege of Staten Island\/CUNY<\/h5>\n

Cindy Wong’s wide-ranging interests in film festivals include diasporic film festivals, Chinese language cinema shown in film festivals outside Greater China, and the Hong Kong International Film Festival.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Esther<\/p>\n
Associate Professor Esther C. M. Yau,
\nUniversity of Hong Kong<\/h5>\n

Esther Yau is interested in reflecting on her experience of organizing a festival of independent filmmaker Ying Liang\u2019s work in Hong Kong.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Su-Anne<\/p>\n
Su-Anne Yeo, Goldsmiths,
\nUniversity of London<\/h5>\n

Su-Anne Yeo is interested in the role of themed film festivals, particularly in Hong Kong and in the diaspora, in facilitating peripheral-to-peripheral networks and producing alternative identities and social imaginaries.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sabrina<\/p>\n
Dr. Sabrina Yu,
\nNewcastle University<\/h5>\n

Sabrina Yu is interested in Chinese independent film festivals including their identities, the discursive space they created, the difficulties and challenges they face, and their future development. She is also interested in exploring overseas Chinese film exhibitions\/festivals as an alternative venue for Chinese independent film festivals.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here you can find out more details on all our existing network members. Our ‘Who are we?’ has a full list, including concise bios, of our Network Coordinators and also all our Participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":244,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6xTKd-W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/chinesefilmfeststudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/chinesefilmfeststudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/chinesefilmfeststudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/chinesefilmfeststudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/chinesefilmfeststudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/chinesefilmfeststudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/chinesefilmfeststudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/chinesefilmfeststudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}