

Raise The Umbrellas
Four years later, Hong Kong’s 2014 democratic Umbrella Movement has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, yet political backlash against protesters has intensified. Repeatedly the target of censorship*, Raise the Umbrellas traces the lineage of the massive Hong Kong protest to the global Occupy movement, 1989 Tiananmen, and its democratic struggles since British colonial days. Highlights range from the Umbrella Movement’s eco-awareness and its burgeoning aspiration for independence, to its empowerment of women -- “umbrella mothers” -- and the rainbow-bridging activism of LGBTQ iconic artists. Incisive and intimate, driven by stirring on-site footage in a major Asian metropolis riven by protest, Umbrellas includes anti-Occupy views that lay bare the sheer political risk for post-colonial Hong Kong’s universal-suffragist striving to define its autonomy within China.
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- Released
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- Box office
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- Language
- Cantonese
- political activism
- hong kong
- social activism
- umbrella revolution
- hong kong protests
- umbrella movement
Top billed cast
Behind the camera
Director
Produced in
Hong Kong, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)Screening by Asian Film and Media Initiative, NYU21 Feb 2018
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical (limited)Dinner screening at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong28 Nov 2016
- Theatrical (limited)Fund-raising screening at HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity4 Dec 2016
- Theatrical (limited)At HKUST20 Nov 2017
- Theatrical (limited)Independently Yours: Cosmopolitanism, Rebellion and Sexual Citizens - an Evans Chan retrospective, Hong Kong Arts Centre18 Nov 2018
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Raise The Umbrellas was released on 28 November 2016.
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