ABOUT Karen

Born and raised in Hong Kong, now based in Berlin, Germany. After she graduated from the University of Hong Kong in French and German, she worked at Ying E Chi, an independent film organisation from Hong Kong, where she coordinated film screenings and the Japan Hong Kong Independent Film Festival in Tokyo.

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In 2017, she moved to Berlin for her MA in Cultural Studies at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin with a focus on political philosophy and Hong Kong's colonial history. During her stay in Berlin, she curated several film festivals: (selected) Waves of Freedom (2023, in cooperation with Robert Havemann Stiftung, Bundesarchiv and Stasi Museum) and Voices of the Ground: Short Film in Chinese Languages (2021). With her cross-disciplinary experiences and focus on politics, she produced works related to feminism, refugee issues and racism: (selected) short film "Head & Leg" (2024) by Popo Fan, a sound installation “Exclave” (2023) at Brotfabrik Berlin and a play “A Tidal Home” (2021). 

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She also published two academic articles on the Hong Kong protest in 2019:

• (2023) Analysis of Social Movements in Hong Kong in 2014 and 2019 From the Perspective of Body Politics and Feeling Politics

• (2020) Protests in Hong Kong from Confucianism to Levinas's Substitution” 

 

In 2018, she attended the Film-Philosophy Conference 2018 in Sweden, holding a workshop titled "Global Circulation as Discursive Space: Case Study of Hongkonger & Hong Kong Indie Film in Global Circulation”

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She started her role as head of communication and marketing at the European Film Academy in 2023 Februray.

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To know more about her projects, see productions and curations!

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