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Meet-the-Filmmaker
Screening of I've Got the Blues 水底行走的人 and Conversation with Director Angie Chen
Date: Saturday, 20 September 2025
Time: 14:00-15:30 (screening); 15:30-16:00 (In-person conversation)
Venue: AERL 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory, University of British Columbia (UBC)
Address: 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver | Map | Parking
Join us for the Vancouver screening of the award-winning documentary I've Got the Blues 《水底行走的人》(2017) to celebrate the work of Director Angie Chen 陳安琪, a trailblazing woman filmmaker who leads a transnational filmmaking career since the 1980s.
Born in Shanghai in 1949, Angie Chen studied in Taiwan before earning her bachelor’s and master’s degree at the University of Iowa. She pursued filmmaking in UCLA’s distinguished MFA program. Her first documentary, Der Besuch (The Visit, 1981), which was about her father, and was filmed in Germany, has been critically acclaimed internationally.
She returned to Hong Kong and entered the commercial industry in the 1980s. She directed several feature films including Maybe It’s Love (1984), My Name Ain’t Suzie (1985), and Chaos By Design (1988). She turned to making commercials and publicity shorts before re-emerging as a documentary filmmaker.
This Vancouver screening presents her award-winning film I’ve Got the Blues, a documentary featuring Chen as herself and Hong Kong artist Wong Yan Kwai, Yank [Trailer].
Following the film screening, Director Angie Chen will join an in-person conversation with the audience.
Conversation in English. Film in Cantonese with English subtitles.
Free event. Open to All. Registration required.
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ASIA 324: Literature of Hong Kong
Introduces the literature of Hong Kong from the late-19th century to the 21st century, with a goal to explore how the stories of Hong Kong are narrated and mediated over time.
ASIA 325: Hong Kong Cinema
A survey of the cinema of Hong Kong from the post-war period to the present.
ASIA 323/HIST 377: History of Cantonese Worlds
The history, culture, languages, and identities of the multi-faceted Cantonese worlds, in the context of Chinese history and the Cantonese diaspora.
ASIA/HIST 373: History of Hong Kong
Explores the history, culture, and identities of Hong Kong from the port’s pre-colonial settings in the early nineteenth century to its post-colonial contexts.
CNTO: Cantonese Language Courses
The University of British Columbia is the only Canadian university to offer a comprehensive, for-credit Cantonese language program.
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Support the HKSI Programming Fund
Your generosity and support expands our capacity, fuels our momentum, and helps the study of Hong Kong’s culture, history and voices in Canada. Please consider making a gift to the HKSI Program Fund to further support our teaching activities, events, and community programs into the future.
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Two Evenings with Ann Hui
September 16 - 18, 2025
The Cinematheque
With support from the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and the Asian Independent Cinema Showcase, The Cinematheque, the Chinese Canadian Museum, and the SFU Department of World Languages and Literatures present two films — Boat People and Song of the Exile — by Ann Hui, followed by a post-screening discussion with the filmmaker in person.
More details and ticketing information.
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Hong Kong Film Festival UK
September 12 - 28, 2025
London, UK
The 2025 edition of the Hong Kong Film Festival UK will take place in September in London. As part of the official selection, the feature documentary film Give and Take (2025), directed, produced, and edited by UBC Alum Jimmy Lo (Assistant Professor, MacEwan University), will be world premiered on September 18, under the program "Contours of Migration: Life Goes On in the In-between," alongside the short films Clearance (Charles Normsaskul, 2025), and Side A: A Summer Day (Kin Fai Wan, 2024).
Co-produced by Jimmy Lo and Dr. Helena Wu, Give and Take was made possible by cinematographers Hin-to Ng and Joanne Siu (with Jimmy Lo), music composer Jonathan Alexander, production assistant Veronica Wong, and subtitler and translator Marcus Lau.
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Film Screening
Golden Gate Girls with Director S. Louisa Wei
Date: Monday, September 15, 2025
Time: 18:00
Venue: Norm Theatre, University of British Columbia
The event is organized by Department of Asian Studies, School of Music, The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, and the research excellence clusters "Popular Media for Social Change" and "Cinema Thinks the World".
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July 28: In a visit organized by the UBC HKSI and iLLUME Films, director and scriptwriter Adam Sau-Ping Wong talked about his filmmaking career and the making of his latest work The Way We Talk (2024), which explores Deaf community and identity, in an in-person conversation moderated by Dr. Helena Wu. The sharing was joined by over 130 audience members consisted of students, staff, and community members (photos).
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Please kindly consider a tax-deductible donation to HKSI (support.ubc.ca/hksi). Thank you, as always, for your support of the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative.
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