SYNOPSIS
UNSUNG HEROES OF INK shines a light on the often overlooked role of paper in Chinese ink painting. Beijing-based artists Liu Dan and Shao Fan explain how paper shapes their work. Their collaborators are craftspeople in the remote Jing County, Anhui Province, who observe ancient methods to hand-produce xuan paper. These craftspeople, who have spent a lifetime honing their skills, are the “unsung heroes of ink”.
THE TEAM
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Olivia Wang 汪鈴
Producer & Director
UNSUNG HEROES OF INK is Olivia Wang’s debut documentary, which she directed and produced.
Based in Hong Kong, Olivia is an independent art curator, consultant and writer, with over twelve years of industry experience. Her writing on contemporary Chinese ink art has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, ArtAsiaPacific, Orientations, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, among others. See her writing here.
Olivia holds a BA from Brown University and MPhil from Oxford University.
Vincent Du 杜海
Director of Photography
As director and/or cinematographer, Vincent Du has made four documentaries for Al Jazeera English. His fiction film Five to Nine (2015), co-produced with three other Asian directors has been screened at the Singapore International Film Festival, and the Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival. Vincent now teaches documentary at the Journalism School of Tianjin Normal University.
Bob Lee 李博
Editor
Bob Lee is a Beijing-based non-fiction-film editor. His most recent film Our Time Machine premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. He was co-editor of Plastic China (2016), which won the Best Editing Award at the 2017 Golden Horse Film Festival, and was selected at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Other recent works include The Hammer And Sickle Are Sleeping (Best Short Fiction Film, 2014, Golden Horse Awards), and Please Remember Me (2015).
PRESS
SCREENINGS
Film screening & discussion, 17–30 December 2022, Art in Ink Festival, Hong Kong Palace Museum
Film screening & discussion, 21 & 29 September 2022, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong
Film screening & discussion, 28 March–3 April 2022, Salem Film Fest
Film screening, 25–29 April 2021, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival
Film screening & discussion, 13–18 April 2021, Princeton Environmental Film Festival
Film screening & discussion, Shorts Programme, 11–19 November 2020, DOC NYC
Film screening & discussion, Soho House, 7 November 2020, Hong Kong
Film screening & discussion, Ashmolean Museum, 4 November 2020, Oxford
Film screening, Asia Now, Paris Asian Art Fair, 22–23 October 2020, Paris
Premiere Film Screening and Conversation on Ink Art, Asia Society Switzerland, 23 April 2020
Film screening & discussion, M+ and the Ink Society, 8 January 2020, Hong Kong
CONTACT
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