HONG KONG MIXTAPE 

Political engagement spawned the wildest of wonderlands for Hong Kong’s creativity – but as a new law annihilates freedom of expression overnight, underground artists and creatives find themselves targets and their works being disappeared.

Immediately after the National Security Law was imposed in June 2020, the government started an endless list of words, images, books, slogans, songs that were now illegal - making so much that was ‘normal' forbidden.

The feature documentary HONG KONG MIXTAPE weaves in the personal story of San, the director - as we immerse with her and these underground artists, including some of Asia’s most iconic creators - rappers, dancers, performers, illustrators, stunt collectives - as they navigate this authoritarian new normal, and race to preserve Hong Kong's creative uprising.

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Directed by San San F Young

‘Young does a fantastic job of chronicling the change in Hong Kong’s mooD… This change in mood is aided by the film’s elegant style, with gorgeous yet foreboding shots of the city coupled with more extravagant pieces of visual flair’

The Herald - Derek MacArthur