Hooligan sparrow 2016 123movies 123 movies watch full. The news was filled with politics, conflicts, and stories that connected us. Hooligan sparrow is a film about a group of the most. Buying tickets to the 2016 sydney underground film festival is easy whether to a single session, or any combination of passes listed below. For a feature film to be considered for the 2016 awards, the films distributor or producer must either send a scanned, signed copy of the osc form and legal billing complete onscreen credits via the dropbox link associated with the films online submission, or deliver a signed osc form and legal billing to the academys 8949 wilshire. Wangs feature debut, hooligan sparrow, was shortlisted for the 2017 academy award for best documentary feature and received two emmy nominations. F ilm is a powerful weapon against oppressive regimes and also an instrument of international solidarity. Nanfu wang hooligan sparrow official trailer 1 2016 documentary the danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker nanfu wang follows maverick activist ye haiyan a.
Jun 07, 2016 women are at the forefront of this years human rights watch festival, an annual showcase of documentaries that tell stories of injustice, oppression, and threats to civil liberty around the world. Her first documentary hooligan sparrow debuted at the 2016 sundance film. Nanfu wang directed and produced the awardwinning documentary hooligan sparrow. Nanfu wangs hooligan sparrow is a film that documents just how dangerous it is to be a womens rights activist in china, observing the life of ye haiyan, a. She travels to hainan province to protest a case in which sexual mistreatment of elementaryage school girls by their principal has gone unprosecuted. About four years ago, i attended an exhibition at the hirshhorn museum in washington d. Pov premiere party sweepstakes sweepstakes 2016 official.
So here is a list of women that made changes in 2016 that you probably didnt hear about. The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker nanfu wang follows maverick activist ye haiyan and her band of colleagues to hainan province in southern china, to protest the case of six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. Click here for our complete coverage from the 2016 sundance film. In this case, a group of cambodian activists use both their phones and the foreign directors camera in order to register police brutality and the governments antidemocratic stance between 2011 and 2016. At the end of the film, the lawyers eventually locate one of the fathers of the abused girls and travel back to hainan to interview him in a powerful and heartbreaking testimony. It also won a film independent spirit award, an ida documentary award, a peabody award, a cinema eye honors award, and the george polk award. The admirably gutsy documentary hooligan sparrow tells the story of ye haiyan, the chinese woman who owned that pillow. Hooligan sparrow 2016 human rights activist ye haiyan is chased from town to town by local governments, national secret police, and even her own neighbors after she seeks justice against an.
I had never done it before and i cannot picture myself doing it. Amy taubin on nanfu wang and jialing zhangs one child nation. At this point in the film, she had already been arrested following her participation in a protest against a government official. After its premiere at the sundance film festival 2016, hooligan sparrow opened theatrically across north america and was later released on pov, netflix, amazon, and itunes. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker nanfu wang follows maverick activist ye haiyan aka hooligan sparrow and her band of colleagues to southern china to seek justice in the case of. I like certain bits more than others but at least it is done.
Hooligan sparrow, wangs first film, was an official selection of the 2016 sundance film festival and debuts this month on the pov series on pbs and on netflix. Wangs feature debut, hooligan sparrow 2016 sundance film festival, was shortlisted for the 2017 academy award for best documentary feature. Watch hooligan sparrow 2016 full movie online 123movie watch hooligan sparrow 2016 123movies online for free. A feminist activist, ye began blogging about sex worker experiences in 2005 but first went viral in china in 2010 for doing sex work for free to bring attention to the rights of sex workers across china and the value of sex work as useful labor. In hainan province, she filmed yes protests against the sexual assault. His work includes the scores to the oscarnominated minding the gap, nanfu wangs hooligan sparrow, i am another you, and one child nation, and the celebrated pbs series soundbreaking. Haiyan aka hooligan sparrow leads a group of activists in a protesta move that could end with each participants arrest. His philosophy is, you can kill me, but you can not kill the truth. She directs, produces, films, and edits feature documentaries, including hooligan sparrow 2016 sundance film festival. The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker nanfu wang follows maverick activist ye haiyan a.
Hooligan sparrow 2016 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Budding filmmakers can take away a valuable lesson from the documentary hooligan sparrow. Her feature debut, hooligan sparrow, premiered at the sundance film festival in 2016. Very quickly after meeting ye for the first time in may 20, they attended a protest in hainan, the. May 24, 2019 thanks to the visibility of nanfu wangs hooligan sparrow 2016 on feminist activist ye haiyan, and with her one child nation 2019 about the onechild policy currently making the festival rounds, films from china using a firstperson lens are gaining much attention. The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker nanfu wang follows maverick activist ye haiyan aka hooligan sparrow and her band of colleagues to southern china as they seek justice in the. My memory is my power is a vital register of a highly contemptible and humiliating practice. Official selection of the 2016 sundance film festival. Director nanfu wang took risks to film the human rights abuse in china.
Nanfu wang hooligan sparrow official trailer 1 2016. Hooligan sparrow, film about activist who fought for 6 sexually abused girls in china, airs on pbs. She was born in 1985 in a village outside fengcheng, jiangxi province. Hooligan sparrow is a 2016 documentary film about ye haiyan and other chinese activists written and produced by nanfu wang. Jul 04, 2016 in light of hooligan sparrow making the academy awards best documentary shortlist, we present again cfi founding editor jonathan landreths interview with director nanfu wang from july. Born in 1975, at the tail end of the cultural revolution, ms.
His latest short film sparrow was completed in 2016 and is due for release in 2017. Founder peter boyd is also executive fellow at yales center for business and the environment, helping other organizations with a combination of strategy, marketing and an eye for climate change solutions and entrepreneurial opportunity. Nanfu wang is an emmynominated filmmaker based in new york. Human rights activist ye haiyan, aka sparrow, knew she faced these risks when she went to. Ruggieros compositions have appeared in over 160 television series including the voice. Mar 25, 2016 nanfu wang is not only the director of hooligan sparrow. Human rights activist ye haiyan is chased from town to town by local governments, national secret police, and even her own neighbors after she seeks justice against an elementary school principal. In early september 20, after i finished filming, i returned to new york. Nanfu wangs hooligan sparrow is a film that documents just how. Dec 18, 2018 hooligan sparrow 2016 is a documentary that follows filmmaker nanfu wang as she follows political activists working to fight sexual abuse in sex trafficking and child abuse. The film follows the titular humanrights activist ye haiyan as she demands justice for a group of underage girls who had been pimped out by their middle school principal and raped by local officials. She then travels to utah, to meet dylans family, in the second part of the film, called. Hooligan sparrow 2016 new zealand international film festival.
Nicknamed hooligan sparrow, ye became a social media cause. Smuggled out of china before it could be completed, wang nanfus film stands as a courageous testament to the liberating potential of. Hooligan sparrow official trailer 1 2016 documentary youtube. The rice farmers explain that they were perpetually in debt with their bosses, who systematically cheated on them. Nanfu wangs hooligan sparrow 2016 is an eighty minute documentary film that captures the horrors of an extremely misogynistic and capitalistic government, through the experiences of chinese womens activism. However, with all those stories, it seemed that many powerful, creative, and brilliant women were left out. Ye haiyan is labeled a trouble maker by the chinese government. She gets a chance to test both values during the summer she spends doing a movie about a woman rights activist in china. Documentary hooligan sparrow shows how dangerous it is. You must have a little courage yourself just to watch it. Nanfu wang is a young chinese girl who enjoys the ideals of creative expression and artistic freedom. Sparrow has nowhere to turn except to travel back to her home village, a place far removed from politics and activism. You dont need fancy camera equipment or in some instances, even a camera if youre passionate enough. Beside what you know about china and its economy, there are stories you dont usually see, and this is that story, said hooligan sparrow director nanfu wang at the sundance film festival.
This years human rights watch festival pushes documentary to. It featured the work of ai weiwei, the controversial chinese artist and activist whose courageous muckraking was memorably chronicled in alison klaymans great 2012 documentary, ai weiwei. Aug 14, 2019 wang completed her first documentary, hooligan sparrow 2016, just after receiving her graduate degree in journalism from new york university. This year, about half the feature films are by women directors, and often that perspective is reflected in their choice of topic abortion. Stories women tell, hooligan sparrow, tempestad, sonita. Hooligan sparrow 2016 new zealand international film. Believe every good thing you read about this movie. Someone who embarrasses the state, for example, with public protests involving the civil rights of sex workers. Jun 29, 2016 nanfu wang hoped that a woman called ye haiyan hooligan sparrow, who had offered free sex on the internet to draw attention to the plight of poor women selling their bodies to support their children, would lead her to the prostitutes she wanted to interview for a documentary film. The chilling story about the chinese states intimidation and violence against human rights activist ye haiyan. Jan 14, 2020 having long since ascended to the ranks of royalty at the sundance film festival, ethan hawke, dee rees, isabella rossellini and gregg araki have now been named as jurors for this years utah. When a chinese elementary school principal who raped six of his students seems poised to receive a light sentence, famed womens rights advocate ye haiyan aka hooligan sparrow leads a group of. Nanfu wangs debut film hooligan sparrow made the shortlist of 15 titles still in contention to be nominated for the best documentary feature oscar. She is a reallife hero who risked her life in order for the atrocities she captured with her lens to be viewed by a global audience, and the fact that she will be in attendance at the chicago premiere of her film is a cause for celebration.
Since its premiere at the sundance film festival 2016, hooligan sparrow has won over twenty awards internationally including two emmy nominations, a peabody award, a cinema eye honor for the best debut film, the george polk award for the journalistic achievement, an ida award, and the truer than fiction award at the independent spirit awards. While the story largely focuses on ye haiyan, or sparrow, as she strives to raise awareness of crimes committed against women of all ages, the film is told from the. Making a film about government corruption in china has to take guts, but what if you grew up. She led a protest when two chinese government officials received light sentences after sexually abusing six schoolgirls.
The protagonist, sparrow, is brash and creative in exposing injustices done to women and sexual abuse of young girls. Nanfu wangs remarkable documentary debut hooligan sparrow. Chris ruggiero is an emmynominated composer and music producer. The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker nanfu wang follows maverick activist ye haiyan aka hooligan sparrow and her band of. Time4good is a socialbenefit business aimed at solving one of the biggest market failures of our generation. Smuggled out of china before it could be completed, wang nanfus film stands as. One of the artworks on display was so wrenching that i still choke up when recalling it. Hooligan sparrow official trailer 1 2016 documentary. Smuggled out of china before it could be completed, wang nanfus film stands as a courageous testament to the liberating potential of journalistic freedom, and an unnerving reckoning of the forces most invested in keeping it from ever happening. I showed a rough cut of the film to all of the main subjects before i finished it and now, theyve had a few. Hooligan sparrow a guerrilla documentary about a child rape case in china and the fearless protest against it exposes a government that only pretends to uphold the rule. Using free sex to expose sexual abuse in china chinafile. Film on china sex workers shines at sundance festival south.
Hooligan sparrow 2016 is available on netflix united states. Urmila questions her parents why they did this to her. Hooligan sparrows nanfu wang on the stacked odds of exposing corruption in china. See more ideas about documentaries, film and movies. Feb 07, 2016 film on china sex workers shines at sundance festival hooligan sparrow director lands us screenings, hopes documentary is seen locally and in china raquel carvalho. Ye is better known by her internet pseudonym, hooligan sparrow, for wang nanfus documentary is name. Bertha film fund and idfa bertha film fund year of release. Filmmaker nanfu wang on hooligan sparrow caam home. Her feature debut hooligan sparrow was shortlisted for the 2017 academy award for best documentary feature. The dissidents who speak out against towering monolithic regimes. It has won over twenty awards internationally including a. Wangs first film, hooligan sparrow, follows womens rights advocate ye haiyan, better known as hooligan sparrow, as she fights for human rights in china. Indomitable activist ye haiyan faces increasingly hostile government harassment as she exposes the case of. Since its premiere at the 2016 sundance film festival, the doc has won more than 20 awards internationally, including a peabody award, a cinema eye honor award, the george polk award, an ida.
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