The five-day workshop not only built friendship between the trainers and the young people, but also let us hear the boys’ dreams, reasons and difficulties of studying in a boarding disciplinary school- like loneliness, missing family members, and eagerness for freedom, friendship. We also get to know some reasons of the behavioural problems, like family violence, bullying in schools, etc

Watch their one minute video stories here.

Training-of-trainers workshop

UNICEF HK hold a two-day training workshop on 12 and 13 May at Hong Kong Baptist University. Three oversea experts of One Minutes Junior, Mr Chris Schuepp, Ms Vivian Wen Li Lin and Ms Judith Leysner came to train and build capacities of local artists with knowledge and skills, so that they could become the local trainers of a series of Believe In Zero, Make A Video camps and help Hong Kong youth to create their one minute video story.

Learn about our trainers here.

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Mentor and editor for Generation Y directed by Igrien Yin Liu (1987). Finalist for the Cinemasia Film Lab 2012.
To premiere Thursday, 5 April 2012 at De Balie, Amsterdam.
www.cinemasia.nl

5 april
Slanted visions: Returning the Gaze
Asian European Media Maker Forum
18:00 – 19:30 | Theater 2

After the premiere of the three CinemAsia FilmLAB shorts, we will investigate the role of Asian European media makers in challenging stereotypical representations of Asia and Asians in Europe. Images of Asians are not only stereotypical, but also painfully absent within media productions. While societal reality shows us a ethnic diverse image, media representations lack this diversity. This panel explores how these filmmakers, actors and producers articulate the need for the recognition of (multi)cultural identities and why they consider this important.

The first two films in Loni Ding’s Asian American history series will be showing in Berkeley on June 9 and July 14 at. the Unitarian Fellowship, 1924 Cedar Street. Dr. Harvey Dong, a member of the Asian American Studies faculty at UC-Berkeley, will lead the discussion after both screenings.

Part One – Coolies, Sailors, Settlers: Voyage to the New World – Thursday June 9 at 7:30 p.m.
“The story of how Asians – Filipinos, Chinese, Asian Indians – first arrived in the Americas. Crossing centuries and oceans, from the 16th century Manila-Acapulco trade … to the Opium Wars … to 19th century plantation coolie labor in South America and the Caribbean.”

Part Two – Chinese in the Frontier West: An American Story – Thursday July 14 at 7:30 p.m.
“The arrival of Chinese in Gold Rush California of the 1850s … their ventures into the Frontier West from Oregon and Washington to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota … Laboring, reclaiming land, and community building, while pursuing cases before the U.S. courts for justice and equality, they set legal precedents and left a legacy of civil rights for all Americans.”

Both screenings are at the Berkeley Fellowship Hall, 1924 Cedar St. (at Bonita), Berkeley [between Shattuck and Martin Luther King Jr Way]. Suggested donation $5-10. No one turned away for lack of funds. Wheelchair accessible.

“…A breathtakingly beautiful narrative on Asian arrivals in the Americas from an informed world historical perspective.”
– Prof. Dilip Basu, History, UC-Santa Cruz

“…Splendidly conceived, emotionally compelling…offering a new history of Asian America, indeed of America…A must see.”
– Prof. Gary Okihiro, History, Columbia University

“…The global approach is a major achievement – a qualitative leap forward!”
– Prof. Robert Allen, Senior Editor, Black Scholar