Beyond Cinema - Storytelling in Immersive Environment Workshop

Workshop

The School is inviting our alumni to conduct series of workshop in this semester for current students. The aim is to initiate ideas generation and leave you all feeling motivated for what’s next. We are glad to have Ms. Tsang Tsui-Shan, MFA graduate, to conduct the fourth alumni workshop “Beyond Cinema - Storytelling in Immersive Environment.” She is from a traditional film background, making both fiction and non-fiction films. Recently she took a big step into exploring storytelling in the virtual reality world. This workshop will share her VR experimental journey for the Venice Biennale College Cinema VR and her experience how to start your story telling in an immersive environment.

06 Mar 2022
Online via Zoom
Poster

Beyond Cinema - Storytelling in Immersive Environment Workshop by Tsang Tsui-Shan

Date: 6 March 2022 (Sunday)

Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Conducted in English

Workshop quota: 20 persons (first-come, first served)

Registration link: https://forms.gle/3Ybws579nE5uXG5dA 

A confirmation email with the Zoom meeting information will be sent to the successful registered students.

 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Tsang Tsui-Shan, Best New Director of the 31st Hong Kong Film Award 2012. Tsang studied sound design at the School of Film and Television, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts before she entered the MFA program in Media Design and Technology at the City University of Hong Kong. After graduating in 2005. Beginning with short film productions, her works have been presented internationally. Her films have typically focused on female stories in the humanitarian grounds. In 2008 her first directed feature film Lovers On the Road won the Best Drama Award of the 8th South Taiwan Film Festival. And her second feature Big Blue Lake was succeed internationally, it had won the Jury Special Award of the Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival 2013 and the Asian New Talent Jury Prix of the Shanghai International Film Festival 2012. Tsang finished her French/ Hong Kong co-production feature documentary Flowing Stories and a mainland drama Scent also released in 2014.

In recent years, Tsang has actively participated in projects relating to environmental issues and disadvantaged communities, receiving the FilmAid Asia’s Humanitarian Award in 2016. Apart from narrative feature, Tsang keeps pushing her boundary in dialogues with different art disciplines, she had been collaborating with different local dancers from 2015 making few dance video works. In 2020, her first VR project Chroma 11 was officially selected by the 77th Venice International Film Festival, Biennale College Cinema VR. Her latest feature film The Lady Improper was released in 2019 April.