Hong Kong independent short documentary“Creativity is”
Celebrating creativity within ourselves
What is Creativity? Are you Creative? These are the two questions the Hong Kong independent short documentary, Creativity is, explores through a group of students and six individuals –an inventor (Cesar Jung-Harada of MakerBay), a psychologist (Professor Chiu Chi-Yue, Dean of Faculty of Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong), an activist (Ren Wan of JupYeah), a startup entrepreneur (Quinn Lai of EONIQ), a yoga teacher (Maggie Lin, Cofounder of nose hk), and a spatial designer (Dylan Kwok of Hong Kong Design Centre).
It is not hard to imagine the suffocation of our creativity in Hong Kong, disturbed and bombarded with expectations of the older generation, interference of the Internet, oppression of urban space and all other negativity around. Directed by Sharon Yeung, a Hong Kong independent filmmaker, and produced by CNEX, the 25-minute documentary launches into a whirl through numerous ideas on creativity from how our mind works, to our obsessions and fears. It then explores the possibilities of what we can do to rediscover the creativity within ourselves.
About the director, Sharon Yeung
Sharon is an independent filmmaker. She grew up in Hong Kong, studied film in Los Angeles, and worked on commercials in Beijing. She is now docked at Hong Kong again, while occasionally city-hopping around Asia, shooting documentaries and creating new media projects. Her current project, Creativity is, spans over a year, evolving from a short documentary to a personal screening experience and now an upcoming new media interactive experience online. Her other immersive media project, MADE, is recently selected for the 2017 Sheffield Documentary Festival. In the gaps between film projects, Sharon likes to host screenings and salons to connect minds around issues we care about.
About CNEX
CNEX is the short form of “Chinese Next” and “See Next”. It’s a non-profit foundation devoted to the production and promotion of documentaries of the Chinese people. CNEX strives to facilitate cultural exchange between Chinese and the rest of the world through supporting documentaries depicting contemporary Chinese – people of Chinese ethnicity, their living and their society. CNEX aspires to become a platform supporting Chinese documentary filmmakers to enhance a sustainable strategy for the contemporary Chinese documentary making. CNEX aims to establish and develop a library of global Chinese non-fiction works to preserve visuals and cultures of Chinese communities, especially in a time of unprecedented and rapid changes happening in this ancient culture.
Directed by Sharon Yeung, a Hong Kong independent filmmaker, the 25-minute documentary launches into a whirl through numerous ideas on creativity from how our mind works, to our obsessions and fears. It then explores the possibilities of what we can do to rediscover the creativity within ourselves.
“Creativity is” explores numerous ideas on creativity through six individuals –(from top to bottom, from left to right) an activist (Ren Wan of JupYeah), an inventor (Cesar Jung-Harada of MakerBay), a startup entrepreneur (Quinn Lai of EONIQ), a psychologist (Professor Chiu Chi-Yue, Dean of Faculty of Social Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong), a spatial designer (Dylan Kwok of Hong Kong Design Centre), and a yoga teacher (Maggie Lin, Cofounder of nose hk).
香港獨立短篇紀錄片《原來我》
原來，我們每一個人都是創造者
什麼是創意？「創意」，究竟是天才的專利，還是你和我與生俱來的天賦？《原來我》是一套關於創意的短篇紀錄片，探討時下年青人自覺缺乏創意的現象和年青人在創意上感到無力的原因，並訪問六位不同領域的人物－發明家原田実、中文大學社會科學系院長及心理學家趙志裕教授、環保組織「執嘢」創辨人尹寶燕、創業家黎鈞國、瑜伽導師及nose hk共同創辦人連君婷、空間設計師郭達麟，分享這六位對「創意」的看法，以及他們在創造過程中成長的感悟。
在今天的香港，我們都背負著種種包袱－上一輩的期望、互聯網的干擾、城市空間的壓迫、周遭的負能量－都令我們的創意都變得窒息、萎縮、甚至流逝，原本充滿創意的你我都變得千人一面，循規蹈矩。由香港獨立電影人楊曉芙執導、CNEX監製，《原來我》將帶領觀眾拋下既有想法，從而一起探索、尋找、發現只要學懂如何放下各種思維上的包袱，原來，我們每一個人都是創造者。
關於導演楊曉芙
楊曉芙是一位獨立電影導演。她成長於香港，在洛杉磯研讀電影，後曾居北京拍攝廣告。今天她重新回到熟悉的香港，亦同時在亞洲各國之間穿梭，拍攝紀錄片及籌劃新媒體項目。她最新的紀錄片作品《原來我》，投注一年時間製作，從最初的短篇紀錄片，發展成一系列體驗式放映，現更正被製作成一項新媒體互動紀錄片。她的另一項虛擬實境媒體創作《MADE》同時入選2017年雪菲爾紀錄片節。在拍攝電影之外，她不時舉辦放映會和文化沙龍，聚集不同背景的朋友一起討論各種切身的議題。
關於CNEX
CNEX 為一非營利性質的民間文創組織，由兩岸三地熱愛紀錄片的人士組成，目前由北京國際交流協會、臺灣蔣見美教授文教基金會、香港 CNEX 基金會共同推動。CNEX 以開展文化資源、培育文化創意人才、促進華人社會和諧進步與華人文化的可持續性發展為願景，期望透過紀實文藝促進國際社會與華人的文化交流。CNEX在大變遷的全球化時代，提供華人新一代紀實創作者及其文藝作品的創作與交流平臺，幫助更多的專業人士以影音和文字的形式留下華人社會發展的生態軌跡。
香港獨立電影人楊曉芙執導關於創意的短篇紀錄片《原來我》，帶領觀眾拋下既有想法，從而一起探索、尋找、發現只要學懂得如何放下各種思維上的包袱，
原來，我們每一個人都是創造者。
在短篇紀錄片《原來我》中，訪問了6位不同領域的人物－（由上至下，由左至右）
環保組織創辨人「執嘢」尹寶燕、發明家原田実、創業家黎鈞國、
中文大學社會科學系院長及心理學家趙志裕教授、空間設計師郭達麟、
瑜伽導師及nose hk共同創辦人連君婷，分享這六位對「創意」的看法。