{"id":38593,"date":"2021-11-03T09:25:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T00:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/03\/hong-kong-protests-filmmakers-decry-new-law-that-could-censor-a-moment-in-history"},"modified":"2021-11-03T09:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T00:25:59","slug":"hong-kong-protests-filmmakers-decry-new-law-that-could-censor-a-moment-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38593","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong protests: filmmakers decry new law that could censor a moment in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 protests spawned documentaries that may never see broad release amid growing intolerance of anything linked to the fight for democracy<\/p>\n<p>When the DVD came back shattered, it felt like a sign. The creators of Hong Kong protest documentary, Inside the Red Brick Wall, had sent it to regulators for a screening approval, as they\u2019d done numerous times before without issue. But this time the returning envelope was filled with silver shards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t understand why, but it was intentional,\u201d one of the anonymous creators says. \u201cThey said it was broken by the DVD machine but it was intentional \u2013 it came back in pieces. It felt intentional, like they were sending a message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/03\/hong-kong-protests-filmmakers-decry-new-law-that-could-censor-a-moment-in-history\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 protests spawned documentaries that may never see broad release amid growing intolerance of anything linked to the fight for democracyWhen the DVD came back shattered, it felt like a sign. The creators of Hong Kong protest documentary, Inside &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,458,50,69,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-censorship","category-china","category-film","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38594,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593\/revisions\/38594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}