Panel Discussion: Asian Disapora Filmmakers

14:30 – May 10, 2026

King's College London – Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS

Room KIN 623 (Anatomy Museum)

Join five incrediblly talented short and feature-filmmakers from Asia for an open discussion on their craft, their professional lives, and their diasporic experience. They will share invaluable insights and offer a Q&A with the attendees. Later in the evening, you can also join us for a screening of their short films.

The panel consists of:

• Lilly Zhuang (director of Here), an award-winning, Chinese-Dutch filmmaker based in London. Working across documentary and fiction, Lilly centres her interdisciplinary creative and academic work around the renegotiation of the diasporic nature of identity and belonging
• John Peter Cadiz Chua (director of No More Crying), a Chinese-Filipino filmmaker and writer based in Hong Kong. His work centres stories from the Lannang community.
• Zhou Zhenyu (director of Branches from Concrete), a Chinese artist based in Paris, working in film and video installations. His autobiographical films depict landscapes and people that have been overlooked in the modernisation process of contemporary Chinese society.
• Viet Vu (director of An Act of Affection and The Eternal Springtime), a Vietnamese filmmaker based in Belgium. Working in experimental cinema, docufiction, and alternative narratives, his films uncover forgotten stories within shifting socio-political contexts, foregrounding queer themes and underrepresented communities.
• Victor Fan (director of Desire/Sleep), a Hong Kong scholar and filmmaker based in London. His research centres on Asia as method, Buddhist studies, Sinophone media and Queer/Trans studies. He made several short films dealing with national history and Hong Kong identity.

Re:Mind is a festival bringing some of the most exciting new voices in Asian cinema for the first time to London, with the aim of showcasing film’s power to heal. Through its film programme and workshops, Re:Mind promotes mindfulness, community-building, and alternative forms of resistance. Its first edition runs from May 7 to 17 at the Garden Cinema and King’s College London.

For more details about the festival and other events, visit our website:

https://remindff.org.uk/

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King's College London, Strand, London, United Kingdom

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