During his studies in Edinburgh in 2021, filmmaker Fredie Chan experienced a protest by the locals to fight for their housing rights, as developers are discovered to be converting empty lots and unused old buildings into new international students flats, rather than resolving severe housing shortage for the locals. From the perspective of a Hongkonger, who is no stranger to housing problems, the documentary follows a group of local grassroots housing advocates, attempting to investigate the crisis, connecting the dots between global and local. Screened with the director’s previous film Beautiful Life, about an Indonesian girl who left her homeland to work as a domestic helper for a financially unstable grassroot family in Hong Kong.
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Fredie Chan Director
Budget $12K · First release March 23, 2023 · Produced in Hong Kong SAR China
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$12,500
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Hong Kong SAR China
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Original language
English
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English
Release dates
United Kingdom · March 23, 2023
Premiere · Hong Kong Film Festival UK 2023
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Hong Kong SAR China
October 28, 2023 · Premiere · Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2023
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