9 October 2019
The Hong Kong Documentary Film Festival will be screening the directorial debut of our recent Master of Journalism graduate, Mak Ru Yin, on 10 October. Ru Yin and her teammates Sophie Li, Sha Miao and Elise […]
1 June 2019
Ruby Yang, project director of the Hong Kong Documentary Initiative (HKDI), was named Artist of the Year for Film at the 2018 Hong Kong Arts Development Awards. This is the first time documentary filmmakers have been […]
2 August 2017
2011 Master of Journalism graduate Vincent Du is among six awardees of this year’s Seed Grants Programme. Along with two other recipients, Vincent was awarded a production grant of HK$150,000 for his film China’s Forgotten […]
18 May 2017
Join us for a screening of six short documentaries produced by our Master of Journalism students. The documentaries are compelling stories of ordinary folks who shared with us their search for identity, their dreams, and […]
6 November 2015
It’s a story of a family of Yunnan snub-nosed monkeys living in the highest forests in the world produced by award-winning filmmaker Xi Zhinong. A group of filmmakers from Wild China Film Studio, led by […]
29 April 2014
Academy Award winner and JMSC faculty member Ruby Yang delivered her inaugural talk, titled “Becoming American, Becoming Chinese: A Personal Journey Through San Francisco, Beijing and Hong Kong,” as HKU’s new Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities on April 25. She showed clips of her documentaries, short subjects and public service announcements, and gave a tour d’horizon of her career.
29 January 2014
Ruby Yang, the Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, has joined the Journalism and Media Studies Centre as Hong Kong University’s Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities. In addition to teaching a course on documentary video production, the Chinese-American filmmaker will be running the “Ruby Yang Workshop.” Both the documentary course and the workshop will be available to all HKU students.
3 November 2013
A work by four students from the Journalism and Media Studies Centre was nominated for best documentary film at the 1st China International Micro-film Exhibition held in Hangzhou October 18-20. The film was one of 48 nominees selected from over 2,000 entries.