Dea (Migrants Built This City) HK Film Premiere
Film Screening followed by a Q&A with the director.
DEA (Migrants Built This City) Color, 2021, 72', eng subs
Written by Indonesian domestic workers
Directed by Alberto Gerosa Volontè
Starring Dea Panendra, Bruno Zanin, Judy Houhai
Film Synopsis
Dea leaves rural Indonesia and her singing dreams to migrate to Hong Kong as a foreign domestic worker. The script is the result of a nine-months acting improv laboratory with a group of Indonesian women migrant domestic workers, who have been victims of domestic violence while working in Hong Kong.
Festival Participations:
Visions Du Rèel Market (wip, 2020)
Slamdance Film Festival, Competition, 2021
Royal Anthropological Film Festival, AV Representations of Resistance, 2021
DMZ Korean International Documentary Film Festival, Global Vision, 2021
Cineteca di Bologna, Visioni Doc, Competition , 2021 (Special Mention: WINNER)
German International Ethnographic Film Festival, Main Competition, 2022
NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival, 2022
Post-Screening Q&A
After the screening there will be a q&a with director Alberto Gerosa Volontè (Adjunct Professor in Anthropology at CUHK).Programme Enquiries﹕ thyaudiovisuallab@gmail.com
Ticketing﹕ https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/screening-of-the-film-dea-by-alberto-gerosa-tickets-427034179727
