GUEST SPEAKERS

HARRY FREELAND, FILMMAKER & DIRECTOR OF IN THE SHADOW OF THE SUN

Harry Freeland is the CEO and Co-founder of Standing Voice and an award-winning British documentary filmmaker and photographer. Harry’s films have screened on television, in cinemas and at film festivals in over sixty countries worldwide. His films have won many international awards, including the 2013 Best Feature Documentary at the One World Media Awards. Born out of the extraordinary global response to his BBC and ITVS International feature documentary In the Shadow of the Sun, Standing Voice is a frontline organisation founded to advance the human rights of people with albinism in East Africa by promoting social change. Having worked alongside this marginalised group for over a decade, Harry has brought this issue to the forefront of global discussion in some of the highest-profile arenas around the world.

KELLEY LOPER

Kelley Loper is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, HKU, specialising in discrimination law and international refugee law. She currently serves as Director of the LLM in Human Rights Programme. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of Justice Centre Hong Kong, formerly the Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre which she chaired for four years, and has also advised a number of other international and local organizations including the UNHCR, UN Women, Amnesty International, and the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor on a range of human rights issues. She teaches courses on the international and regional protection of human rights and equality and non-discrimination. Her current research focuses on refugee protection in Asia, same-sex couple rights, and the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

CHAN, HO LUN FREDIE, FILMMAKER & DIRECTOR OF OPEN ROAD AFTER HARVEST

Chan Ho-lun Fredie is a filmmaker and Director of “Open Road After Harvest”. Born in Hong Kong, after graduating from the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in 2006, he became a TV producer of Public and Current Affairs Unit at Radio Television Hong Kong. He is now actively involved in various independent film productions and education. His works were exhibited and screened in various international film festivals. His film Beautiful Life received the Gold Award in 19th Open Category in the Incubator for Film and Visual Media in Asia (ifva) 2014.

WONG, YU WING

Wong Yu Wing is a farmer of Au Law Organic Farm. He is one of the key characters in the film Open Road After Harest.

FARZANA ASLAM

Farzana Aslam is Principal Lecturer and Associate Director, CCPL, Faculty of Law at HKU. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law in 2007, Farzana practiced at the London Bar for a period of 7 years before joining Goldman Sachs in 2001 as their principal in-house employment counsel for the Asia Pacific region. Farzana is an experienced trainer, facilitator and executive coach. She has consulted on a full range of employment law, diversity, cross-cultural and cross-border management and human rights issues across the Asia Pacific region. She is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Justice Centre, Hong Kong. She is co-editor of Employment Law and Practice in Hong Kong, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Rights and the Law and the Asian Journal of Legal Education.

WILLIAM NEE

William Nee is the China Researcher at Amnesty International. William specializes in China’s human rights issues, including the death penalty, freedom of speech and religion, and civil society. Before joining Amnesty in 2014 he was the Development Director and Public Affairs & Liaison Officer of China Labour Bulletin. William was a lecturer at Shanghai University from 2004 to 2007. He obtained his Master of International and Public Affairs from HKU.

HKU x MAGG

HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016

March 21-23, 2016