Become a Future Queer Filmmaker in the UK:
Join Our Film Production Workshop
Transform Your Queer Stories and Ideas into Big Screen
About the Workshop:
Join us in our weekly workshop, taking place every Saturday from March to June, a dynamic, inclusive, safe and creative space where you can develop your talent and emerge as a future queer filmmaker. This program is specifically designed to nurture new queer Chinese speaking filmmakers in the UK, offering an exciting journey of exploring gender, sexuality, and identity through storytelling and filmmaking.
Key Highlights 亮点:
Empowerment: Express your experiences of gender, sexuality, and identity through film and digital technologies.
Equipment Provided: Gain access to quality filming equipment free of charge (shared use for practical purposes).
No Cost: The program is entirely free for accepted participants – no tuition or camera rental fees.
Creative Freedom: You're encouraged to create a short film in any genre, sharing your unique perspective on identity, community, and social change.
Inclusivity: Open to all queer Chinese-speaking individuals aged 18 or above, regardless of prior filmmaking experience.
Programme Structure项目架构：
Duration: Every Saturday from 23 March 2024 till mid-May 2024
Workshop Location: Central London
Capacity: 10 selected participants
Support: Guidance from experienced coordinators and tutors.
Screening and copyright: Films to be shared under Creative Commons Public License (CC BY 4.0) for project publicity.
**Successful applicants will be interviewed and workshop photos will be used for project publicity and reports.
Programme Agenda项目安排:
From March 2024 to June, 2024
Language of instruction: Mandarin with English Supplementary
从2024年3月到2024年6月
教学语言：普通话为主，英语为辅。
Week 1: 23.03.2024 Saturday 1000-1700
Visualising your body images (Kit Hung)
第一周：视觉化你的身体形象
Week 2: 30.03.2024 Saturday 1000-1700
Morning: Consolidating Your Idea (Kit Hung/Face to Face)
Afternoon: Moving images and self-expression: queer/feminist/essay film/practices (Yash Zhang)
第二周：上午-“巩固你的拍摄想法”工作坊
下午-流动的影像与自我表达：酷儿/女性主义/散文电影范例/实践
Week 3: 06.04.2024 Saturday 1000-1700
Morning: Shorts Film Screening, Q&A and consultation with Directors. Presentation, Production Workflow Overview.
Afternoon: Begining pre-production, Camera Operation and Sound Recording (Kit Hung + Guests)
第三周：上午-短片放映与交流，学员拍摄想法展示，技术知识的学习
下午-前期制作、摄像机和录音等技能的学习
Week 4: 13.04.2024 Saturday 1000-1700
Morning: Post-production workflow and Editing theory (Kit Hung)
Afternoon: Practical Workshop (Student need to prepare their one laptop with editing program installed)
第四周：上午-后期制作流程和剪辑理论
下午-实践工作坊（学员们需自备一台有编辑软件的笔记本电脑）
Week 5: 14-26.04.2024
Shooting Week, 14-26 April 2024, free arrangement.
第五周： 拍摄周，自由安排。
Week 6: 27.04.2024 Buffer (Last mins shooting or Editing begin)
Individual studies, tutorial and appointment upon request
第六周：根据需求而定的辅导
Week 7: 4.May.2024 1000-1700 (Guest TBC)
Morning: Distributing Your Film - Film Festival programer and guest visit
Afternoon: Financing Your Film
第七周：上午-与电影节策划人，影像工作者的交流
下午为“如何经济上支持影片创作”工坊
Week 8: Internal Screening (4.5 end of the day or 11.5 afternoon)
第八周：内部放映会
Films public showcase: London and Nottingham, June 2024.
学员们作品的公开放映活动：一场在伦敦，一场在诺丁汉，时间为骄傲月2024 年 6 月期间。
Eligibility谁适合报名:
This programme is completely free of charge for accepted participants. You do not have to pay any tuition or camera mental fees for the workshops. However, please take care of the rented equipment and make sure there is no damage. Damage of equipment will incur a financial compensation as per the terms and conditions of the equipment provider.
该项目完全免费。您无需支付任何学习和设备租赁费用。不过，请妥善保管租用的设备，确保没有损坏。如有损坏，需根据设备供应方的要求进行相应赔偿。
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Chinese-speaking, self-identified queer individuals.
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All age groups from 18 years old and above are welcome.
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No prior filmmaking experience needed.
Application Deadline报名截止日期:
8th February 2024 23:59 London Time
Notification何时通知结果:
Application results will be communicated via email around 15th February 2024.
Seletion Criteria筛选标准:
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Commitment to idea development,
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Willingness to share stories,
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and ability to work effectively in a team
Organisers 组织者
Kit Hung
Project Director, A Socially Engaged Art Practitioner.
Qiuyan has 8 years of experience in activism, community building and empowerment. She established Queer China UK after realising the intersectional invisibility of the Chinese LGBTQ+ diaspora community. In recent years, Qiuyan has curated many interesting projects with her lovely community including “Drag Up!”, “Safe Distance”, Queer Chinese Art Festival and queering Chinatown zine making workshops.
Tutor and Workshop Facilitator.
Awards winning queer filmmaker from Hong Kong. Yale-China Artist Fellow.
Lecturer@University of Westminster, UK. Living in London and Switzerland. He is most notable for his film Soundless Wind Chime (2009), which has won several awards.
Qianlin Wang (she/her)
Documentary Filmmaker.
A recent University of the Arts London, London College of Communication graduate. She is passionate about using the camera to improve the visibility of marginalised communities. She directed the Drag Up! Documentary in 2023. Qianlin has been supporting the queer Chinese community through Queer China UK since 2020.
Producer and Academic Advisor.
Dr. Hongwei Bao is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham where he co-directs the Centre for Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. He holds a PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (NIAS Press, 2018), Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (Routledge 2020), Queer Media in China (Routledge 2021) and Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge 2022). He also coedits Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality (Routledge, 2024).
Qiuyan Chen(she/her)
Dr.Hongwei Bao(he/him)
Special Guests 分享嘉宾：
Yuxuan Xue (she/her), Master of Photography from University of the Arts London, currently teaching at the university. Her work focuses on the relationship between human identities and places, and specializes in image and multi-media creation. Co-founder of the Informal Action Group IAG, which focuses on the informal economy and related communities in Chengdu and gives voice to them through the medium of art.
伦敦艺术大学摄影硕士，目前在大学教书。关注⼈的⾝份和地⽅的关系，擅长影像与多媒介创作。非正式行动小组IAG发起人之一，小组目前关注成都非正式经济及其相关的群体生存境遇，并将观察思考通过艺术媒介发声与交互。红印美术馆“城市里的空间与艺术艺术展”参展艺术家（2023）；BRC北部湾滨海湿地保护⾏动项⽬合作社区专家（2022）；第⼆届中国民族博物馆⼈类学研究计划参与艺术家（2021）；100公⾥X上海城市空间艺术季驻地艺术家（2021）；成都苏坡街道办X爱有戏社区发展中⼼“重思场景”驻地艺术家（2021）；《To The Island》，成都艺术与社会创新实验室（2021）；台湾细着艺术：东南亚岛屿⽣态链研究驻地艺术家（2020）; 《Let Them Eat Cake》，伦敦艺术⼤学典藏馆（2020）; London Photobox摄影提名奖（2019）; 《Ricism is Virus》，伦敦博物馆（2019）; 北京奔放艺术“涟——孤岛计划”⽹络驻地艺术家（2019） ; 《⽩⽇依⼭》，台北国际摄影节新锐摄影师（2016）; 《春风不度》，上海第⼗三届国际摄影艺术展（2016）
Samuel Zhang (he/they) is a multidisciplinary visual practitioner and LGBTQ+ rights advocate, who recently graduated from Goldsmiths in Visual Anthropology. His research-based work revolves around biopolitics, diaspora, and queer identity in photography, installation, and film. 多学科视觉艺术家和 LGBTQ+ 权益倡导者，毕业于伦敦大学金史密斯学院的视觉人类学硕士项目。他的作品主要通过摄影，电影和装置等媒介探索生命政治、离散和酷儿身份。
Yifei”Yash” Zhang (he/they) is an queer filmmaker and artist from Tengzhou, China. He is currently pursuing an MFA Creative Documentary at University College London, UK. He graduated as a Theatre and Film&Media Studies major from Rhodes College, Memphis, the United States. He spends most of his time exploring themes about queerness, fluidity, activism, futurism, mental health, post-humanism in his art works. His films have been selected and screened at multiple festivals including Indie Memphis, Mao Film Week, ISFCC, FOMI, etc. Yash just finished filming his first feature doc. It’s a personal essay film about returning home and trying to reconnect with his mother.
www.yashzhang.com IG: yashzhang_
来自山东滕州，电影创作者。现就读于伦敦大学学院创意纪录片艺术硕士专业。本科就读于美国罗德学院（Rhodes College)自我设计的戏剧和电影媒体双专业。自2017年以来参与了多部电影短片和戏剧及音乐剧制作，近两年主要在探索表演、社会运动，身体和感知间的联系，以及元叙事的多媒介表达。关注酷儿影像，散文电影，流动性，未来主义，心理健康，后人类等创作母体。
电影短片「如是说」，「树跟安德莉亚在一起」曾入围孟菲斯独立电影节，Mao冇·国际青年影像周，ISFCC，浪影像展映，FOMI等多个电影节和展映。目前Yash刚完成了第一部纪录长片《飞行船》的拍摄，这是一部回归家乡，尝试与母亲连接的私人影像作品。
More guests will be announced. Stay tuned!
A: We expect you to attend all the workshops. However, we will try to work with participants', tutors’ and guests' availability to design the most suitable programme possible.
我们期待参与者能全程出席所有安排。以上的时间段有可以调整的地方，报名成功后，会私下根据成员和分享嘉宾可行的时间段进行微调。
You might have following questions
你可能还有以下疑惑：
Q: My experiences are not exciting and interesting enough. Can I shoot other people’s stories? 我的经历不够精彩和有趣，我能去拍别人的故事吗？
A: Not only are the so-called "exciting" and "interesting" stories worthy of appearing on the screen; your stories are as well. In fact, this misunderstanding has led to the stereotyping and symbolization of LGBTQ+ films to a certain extent. Through this project, we hope to help our community build confidence, improve capacity, and then use practice to enrich existing on-screen LGBTQ+ images.
不是只有所谓“精彩”和“有趣”的故事才有资格出现在荧幕上，实际上因为这样的误解，一定程度上导致了LGBTQ+影片的刻版化和符号化。通过这个项目，我们希望帮助社群成员建立身份自信，提升拍摄能力，然后用实践丰富现有的荧幕LGBTQ+形象。
Q: What is the film public showcase in London and Nottingham in June 2024? 项目安排里提到6月份有公开放映活动，这是什么呀？
A: Through three months of learning and practice, each participant will be able to create their own short film. We will celebrate the creative outputs through the public screenings. The screening events are scheduled to take place during the Pride Month in June 2024, which is also a perfect time to increase the visibility of Chinese queer community through film. We anticipate two screenings, one in London and one in Nottingham, both free of charge to the audience. But other screening opportunities are possible.
通过三个月的学习与实践，每位参与者都将能创作出自己的短片，我们希望通过公开放映的方式来庆祝我们的学习成果。放映活动安排在了6月骄傲月，这也是在英国骄傲月通过影片提高华语酷儿可见度的绝佳时机。总计两场免费公众放映，一场在伦敦，一场在诺丁汉。其他放映活动待定。
Q: Can the dates of workshops be flexible? What if some of the dates I can't make it? 上文里列出的时间段能调整吗？有些日期我无法参与怎么办？
*All the films produced through the project will be listed under a Creative Commons license, available on the project website and with the creators’ names credited. We expect that you share your completed film with us, according to Creative Commons Public Licence (CC BY 4.0), on the project website, in post-workshop screening events and for project publicity. 所有工作坊中产出的艺术成果及作品受到知识共享许可协议的保护，按照参与者指定方式进行署名。你完成的影片需与我们分享，根据知识共享公共许可协议, 用于项目网站，影片放映活动以及项目宣传。
*We expect that you agree to be interviewed by the project team, and the workshops to be documented in photographs and videos for the use of project publicity and the project reports. 我们会对工作坊进行适当拍摄和录像。这些材料会用于项目宣传以及项目报告。
The project is supported by the University of Nottingham. In collaboration with Queer China UK, it hopes to connect academic research to society and empower minority communities. 该项目得到了诺丁汉大学的支持， 与Queer China UK合作，将学术研究与社会联系起来，赋能少数群体。
Film Showcase @London
Location: Queer Britain
Date: Saturday 22 June 2024
Film Showcase @Nottingham
Location: University of Nottingham
Date: Friday 21 June 2024
亞細亞的獨角獸 The Missing Dialogues
dir.Ming | 26mins08s |
在成長過程中，被政治身份塑造意味著什麼？一個在中國大陸長大的臺灣人，究竟是台灣人，還是中国人？這是Ming成長過程中逃不開的問題。酷兒身份又如何與這些層面交織在一起？《亞細亞的獨角獸》是一部由對話片段編織而成的紀錄片，隨著導演Ming探索自己和台灣的關係，袒露脆弱，影片深入探討了這些交錯的面向。我們的身份認同和歸屬感要怎樣被定義？我們如何與他人連結？台灣和中國之間缺失了哪些對話？
What does it mean to be shaped by political identity while growing up? As a Taiwanese growing up in China Mainland, such questions from others have been an inescapable tide for Ming. How does being queer intertwine with these layers? "The Missing Dialogues" is a documentary that delves into these intersections through the director's exploration of her Taiwanese roots, exposing the hidden vulnerabilities. By connecting with others and unearthing the silenced conversations between Taiwanese and Chinese perspectives, the film tenderly reveals new ways of perceiving identity and belonging.
cc.ming825@gmail.com | @nemofindingccm
dir.Jash | 8mins07s |
《间》THE LEAVED, THE LEFT
《间》是一部诗意且内省的短片，探索自我认同、亲密关系和归属感的交织。影片通过不断行驶的列车和变换的场景，如同意识或梦境般，捕捉主人公在存在与缺席、连结与孤独、想象与真实之间寻找平衡的过程。就像列车有其起点和终点一样，以及影片使用的黑白色调，都在象征主人公在二元世界中的挣扎。
The Leaved, The Left is a poetic and introspective short film that explores the intertwining themes of self-identity, intimate relationships, and the sense of belonging. Through the journey of a constantly moving train and shifting scenes, akin to consciousness or dreams, the film captures the protagonist's quest to find the balance between presence and absence, connection and solitude, imagination and reality. Just as a train has its starting point and destination, the film's use of black-and-white imagery symbolizes the protagonist's struggle within a binary world.
@awesomejash | awesomejash.com | awesomejashart@gmail.com
T是什么？T is for?
dir.Haoye | 8mins45s |
这部影片参与了由诺丁汉大学与queerchinauk共同策划的项目queer across wave film project.这部短片是一个爱情故事，但更像是一个个人故事，改编自导演HAOYE好野的个人故事。
一名来自东亚queer文化的lesbian（T），在超市遇到了一见钟情的女生，在想要接近女生的过程中，偶然听到了女生打电话描述自己的理想型，从而T在这个过程中发了一些心理变化，以及开始疑惑自己的性别认同。
本片导演同样在东亚的酷儿文化中长大，在成长过程中一直陷入性取向和性别认同之间的选择难题。“大家做选择的时候都这么简单吗？就像女生就一定喜欢吃甜品，男生就一定喜欢吃肉吗？那我呢？我该怎么选呢？”
“到底是人在做选择，还是选择在选择人呢？”
The film is part of the queer across wave film project, a joint project between the University of Nottingham and queerchinauk. The short film is a love story, but more of a personal story adapted from a personal story by the director, HAOYE好野.
A lesbian (T) from an East Asian queer culture meets a girl in a supermarket who she falls in love with at first sight. In the process of trying to get closer to the girl, she overhears the girl on the phone describing her ideal type, which leads to T's psychological changes and doubts about her gender identity.
The director of this film also grew up in the queer culture of East Asia. In the process of growing up, she has been caught in the dilemma of choosing between sexual orientation and gender identity. "Is it so easy for everyone to make a choice? Do girls always like dessert, and do boys always like meat? What about me? How do I choose?"
"Are people making choices, or are choices choosing people? "
@who.areu2023 | yeom326@163.com
爱的氵暴光 So Darling, Play Your Violin
dir.Yuwei | 17mins23s |
《爱的氵暴光》是一部散文电影，也是导演鱼尾的第一部电影作品。这部短片讲述了一棵树/ 一个人类的故事：ta穿行在人间，不知道爱是什么，也忘记了自己是谁——在寻觅的过程中，ta发出呐喊与疑问。
本片受中国经典哲学概念“庄周梦蝶”启发，并化用了此哲学概念来解释、解构、消解性别，将去人类中心主义与去性别化相结合；但在此间的虚实与睡梦之中，基于现实的性别议题更加显露——不仅仅指个人的性别认同与酷儿身份，更指深受儒家思想影响的东亚父权制下的性别不平等问题。正如影片开头所述，“这是一个童话故事，或者也许不是”。
“好像活着对我来说，就是不停地在说服自己扮演‘这个角色’”——是片中角色小树，也是导演鱼尾自幼至今的困惑。也许超脱肉身与物质的囚笼，灵魂只是一片无我的温柔，如梦幻泡影，如露亦如电。
“So Darling, Play Your Violin” is an essay film and also director Yuwei’s first film. It tells a story of a tree/ human: they wander through the human world, not knowing what love is and having forgotten who they are. As they retrieve lost love and self, they question.
This short film is inspired by the Chinese classic philosophical concept "Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream", applying this concept to explain, deconstruct, and dissolve gender, combining anti-anthropocentrism with degendering. However, amid the blurred lines between reality and illusion, real-world gender issues become more apparent - not only referring to an individual's gender identity & queer identity but also to gender inequality, a socio-cultural issue, under the East Asian patriarchy deeply influenced by Confucianism. As stated at the beginning of the film, “This is a fairy tale, or maybe not."
"I feel like living, for me, is constantly convincing myself to play 'this role.'" - a line from the character Little Tree in the film reflects a confusion that has troubled the director, Yuwei, since childhood. Perhaps beyond the confines of the physical body and material world, the soul is like a dream, like a bubble, like dew, like lightning, is just a fragment of gentleness without self.
@yuwei_tails_tales | yuweiwrites@gmail.com
dir.Du | 7mins53s |
WHO IS OUT?
影片主要描绘了一个女性酷儿试图向家人出柜的想象场景，强调了父母对女儿身份的漠视和回避，以及主人公在出柜时刻内心的反抗和爆发。使用了具有隐喻的出柜武器，抽离了现实与虚构。它描绘了现代酷儿女性在渴望家庭理解的同时，又想要摆脱家庭的束缚。影片采用幽默和讽刺的道具设计作为虚构线索，展示了女性和酷儿力量的自信展示。
The film mainly portrays an imagined scenario in which a female queer try to come out to her family, emphasizing the parents' disregard and avoidance of their daughter's identity, alongside the protagonist's internal struggle to resist and erupt in the coming-out moment. These elements are juxtaposed using a surrealistic approach. It depicts modern queer women want to shed family bondage while yearning for familial understanding. Employing humor and ironic "coming-out weapons" as fictional cues, the film illustrates an assertive display of feminine and queer power.
@ax0129
dir.Nan | 5mins22s |
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一场意外让奶瓶结束了他和主人的关系，他以完成最后的视频任务来向主人告别。奶瓶细数他从家乡山东小城来到伦敦这一路的虐恋经历，而这也是他游走在家乡、国外、现实世界与情色互联网之间寻找真实自我的挣扎人生。
An accident ended the relationship between Naiping and his master, and he said goodbye to his master by completing the last video task. Naiping recounted his sadomasochistic experience on the way from his small hometown in Shandong Province to London, and this was also his struggle to find his true self between his hometown, foreign countries, the real world and the erotic Internet.
初恋 First Love
dir.树Jing | 5mins10s |
旅行 A Short Trip
dir.Alice | 5mins19s |
这是一段小小的旅程！希望你喜欢！
It’s about a short trip into my life! Hope you enjoy x
@Aliced_yuchen ｜ aliceydong@gmail.com
dir.Yuxuan | 29mins42s |
不（只）日記 Non-Diary
dir.Dawn Li | 22mins47s |
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