Others
Theratrical Release and Other Outreach Events
Dear Child, How Are You?
Executive Producer : Sinje Lee
Director : Tan Seng Kiat , Kethsvin Chee, Sinje Lee
Dear Child, How Are You? is a series of 4 documentary films about child education, included:
- The Journey of Sinje
- Hilltop House
- We Rode An Ostrich
- Who Am I
In Hong Kong, Dear Child, How Are You? went on general release in September 2023, at Golden Harvest Cinemas. Also, Sinje also joined the post-screening talk and shared her thoughts about this film and also the topic of children education to the audiences.
On the other hand, this film also has group screening events organized by schools, education centres, and the community of Waldorf Education in Hong Kong.
What’s more, Dear Child, How Are You? can be watched in nowtrue, a pay documentary channel of nowTV Hong Kong.
➤Official Trailer : https://youtu.be/MSWRxjI95Zs
LOVE Talk
Executive Producer: Ben Tsiang, Chang Chao-wei, Ruby Chen, Shen Ko-Shang
Director : Shen Ko-Shang
On Valentine’s Day 2019, LOVE Talk started to go on general release in two cinemas, and showed a total of 33 screenings in 3 months.
Mr. Shen Ko-sheng also attended the post-screening talk, to share and interact with the Hong Kong audience. .
Moreover, CNEX organized 2 special post-screening talks by the family counseling specialists, in order to advance the audience’s experience and self-learning.
Synopsis:
Another provocative work by the Taipei Film Festival award-winning director, Shen Ko-shang. He spent the total of seven years documenting the most personal and intimate conversation of eight couples. Fairy tales often stops with the phrase, “and they lived happily after.” However, the end of the fairy tale marks not the end, but the beginning in actuality. The film challenges the couples with the underlying questions that exist but rarely discussed between husband and wife: Why do you decide to marry? When the passion fades, what is it that sustains the relationship? How do they deal with the problems with their in-laws? What changes are they faced with once children are involved? How do they put up with each other? The couple are from various professions and social class. Through the most genuine dialogs, the films guides the audience to rethink and reflect on the meaning of happiness and marriage.
➤Official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LOVETalkMovie/
Plastic China
Executive Producer: Ben Tsiang, Chang Chao-wei, Jean Tsien
Prodicer : Ruby Chen
Director : Wang Jiu-liang
Plastic China’s main character Yi-Jie is an unschooled 11-year-old girl whose family works and lives in a typical plastic waste household-recycling workshop. As much as her life is poor and distorted, she’s a truly global child who learns the outside world from the waste workshop that her family lives in and works in – also known as the “United Nations of Plastic Wastes.” She lives her happiness and sorrows amongst the waste,, as well. Small packs of discarded instant black powder tells her the bitter taste of “coffee”; the English children’s learning cards teach her words like “summer” and “father’s day”; and brokenBarbie dolls are her best friends to talk to. This is her world.
Plastic China also unveils the true face of China. The current world image of the growing China prosperity is similar to that of plastic surgery – fake and fragile with uncertain consequences. People lose their mind over this unreal beauty and their own fates are formed into whatever shape reality requires – just like those plastic products coming out of the mold machine.
Tracing further to the plastic waste imported from around the world, this signals and symbolizes the lives of those on the other side of the world – far away from China’s plastic recycling workshops. When these symbolic wastes immersed deeply in this impoverished world of these Chinese workers, we are confronted with the truth that the world is flat and issues don’t go away by changing time and location. At the end of the day, as a global nation, we are all in this together, and we all play a part in this ever changing world.
➤Offical Website of Plastic China: https://www.cnex.tw/plasticchina
2018 New Taipei City Documentary Night
2018 New Taipei City Documentary Night (新北市紀錄片之夜2018) was co-organized by CNEX, New Taipei City Government, and Kwang Hua Information and culture center.
This film screening event was held on 7 and 8 September, 2018. We have selected 4 award-winning films from the New Taipei City Documentary Festival.
This screening event was free-of-charge to join. We want the Hong Kong audiences can know more about Taiwan in different faces.
Films including:
- After Crossing – Director: Chang Hao-chuan
- The Farthest – Director: Hsu Hung-tsai
- 1/3 Millions -Director: Chang Wei-Chih
- Miracle -Director: Lu Rou-Shiuan
CNEX x MaD 2017
CNEX joined the MaD Festival 2017 to become one of the co-organizer of the festival.
This year, CNEX had chosen 4 films on the theme of “The Blink of the Creative Mass” . We hope these films can inspire the people to make changes.
Documentary films including:
- Tomorrow – Director: Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent
- Project Wild Thing – Director: David Bond
- The Verse of Us – Director: Xiaoyu Qin and Feiyue Wu
- Citizen Jane : Battle For The City- Director: Matt Tyrnauer
CNEX x MaD 2016
CNEX joined the MaD Festival 2016 and brought 5 documentary films to react with the theme of “Village Reinvented : An Emergent Grid for Different Realities”. We hope the audiences can rethink about the possibilities in their lives, and their relations with the natural environment.
Documentary films including:
- If You Build It – Director: Patrick Creadon
- Capital C – Director:Timon Birkhofer, Jørg M. Kundinger
- A Young Patriot – Director: Du Haibin
- Rafea : Solar Mama – Director: Jehane Noujaim, Mona Eldaief
- Water is life – Director: Ke Chin-yuan
CNEX x MaD 2015
CNEX joined the MaD Festival 2015 and bought 6 documentary films to echo with the theme of “Village Reimagined: Emergent Realities on a Different Grid”. We hope audiences can think more about the possibilities in lives, also the relationship in between human and the environment.
Documentary films including:
- The Human Scale : Bringing Cities to Life – Director: Andreas Dalsgaard
- Waste Land – Director: Lucy Walker
- Flowing Stories – Director: Tsang Tsui-Shan
- Forest Dancing – Director: Seok-Pil Kang
- Maker – Director: Mu-min Tsai
- Planting for Life – Director : Gu Xiaogang
CNEX x MaD 2014
In the MaD Festival 2014, CNEX bought 5 documentary films which echo with the theme of “The Fifth Direction : From to Beyond”. We hope these documentary can inspire the people to think outside of the box.
Documentary Film list:
- Bananas! At Any Cost? – Director : Fredrik Gertten
- No Impact Man – Director: Laura Gabbert, Justin Schein
- Fish Story – Director: Wong Siu-pong
- Digital Nation – Director: Rachel Rdetzin
- Environment Arts Movement at Plum Tree Creek – Bamboo Curtain Studio
- The Island President – Director : Jon Shenk
CNEX @ Feminism Film Festival of AAF
In February 2014, the Association for the Advancement of Feminism have organized a Feminism Film Festival on the topic of “Female and Human Rights” . CNEX had become one of the co-organizer of this event.
CNEX’s Documentary films including:
- The World Before Her – Director: Nisha Pahuja
- Mothers – Director: Xu Hui-jing
“Talk about Films & Books” Seminar
“Talk about Films & Books” Seminar (書．影．談) is a seminar to explore the issue of poverty and the society. The organizer invited guests from various background to discuss this issue in many viewpoints. This seminar was in June 2010.
Also, this seminar contained book reading and discussion section, photo sharing section by a professional photographer, and documentary film screening section, to let the participants to know more and think more about the issue of poverty.
CNEX’s production, All’s Right With The World had a screening in this event. Mr. Cheung King-wai attended the post-screening talk. He also introduced another short film Crimson Jade to the participants.
Screening 2.0
Screening 2.0 (2.0 放映式) is a event to raise awareness of the social development of the Greater China area, CNEX introduced documentary films to the university students, and invited guests and lecturers to join the discussion section.
This event was in 2009 to 2010.
Documentary films including:
- All’s Right With The World – Director: Cheung King-wai
- The District Councilor – Director: Chan Wai-yee
- Brave Father – Director : Li Jun-Hu
- Hip-Hop Storm – Director : Su Che-hsien
- Umbrella… – Director : Du Hai-bin
- KJ – Director : Cheung King-wai
- Puujee – Director: Kazuya Yamada
- Please Vote For Me – Director: Chen Weijun
