Raise The Umbrellas
6.9
Four years later, Hong Kong’s 2014 democratic Umbrella Movement has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, yet political backlash against protesters has intensified. Repeatedly the target of censorship*, Raise the Umbrellas traces the lineage of the massive Hong Kong protest to the global Occupy movement, 1989 Tiananmen, and its democratic struggles since British colonial days. Highlights range from the Umbrella Movement’s eco-awareness and its burgeoning aspiration for independence, to its empowerment of women -- “umbrella mothers” -- and the rainbow-bridging activism of LGBTQ iconic artists. Incisive and intimate, driven by stirring on-site footage in a major Asian metropolis riven by protest, Umbrellas includes anti-Occupy views that lay bare the sheer political risk for post-colonial Hong Kong’s universal-suffragist striving to define its autonomy within China.
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Cast
11 people
Joshua Wong
Self
Benny Tai Yiu-ting
Self
Evans Chan
Martin Lee Chu-ming
Self
Denise Ho
Leung 'Long Hair' Kwok-hung
Self
Kwok-Hung Leung
Emily Lau Wai-hing
Self
Anthony Yiu-Ming Wong
Anthony Wong Yiu-Ming
Self
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Golden Swallow
Denise Ho Wan-si
Self
Known for
Life Without Principle
Evans Chan Director
United States release February 21, 2018 · Produced in Hong Kong SAR China, United States · Original title 撐傘
Production
NYHK Productions Ltd.
Production
Hong Kong SAR China · United States
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Languages
Original title
撐傘
Original language
Cantonese
Spoken on screen
Cantonese
Release dates
Hong Kong SAR China · November 28, 2016
Limited theatrical · Dinner screening at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong
United States · February 21, 2018
Limited theatrical · Screening by Asian Film and Media Initiative, NYU
Hong Kong SAR China
December 4, 2016 · Limited theatrical · Fund-raising screening at HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
November 20, 2017 · Limited theatrical · At HKUST
November 18, 2018 · Limited theatrical · Independently Yours: Cosmopolitanism, Rebellion and Sexual Citizens - an Evans Chan retrospective, Hong Kong Arts Centre
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