LEE Wai Kwan & YIP Man Hay

YIP Man Hay is an independent director whose works focus on issues surrounding migrant workers’ rights. His films ‘The Food Fascist’ and ‘Stolen Homelands’ received local and international recognition. He is the recipient of the IFVA Silver Award and South Taiwan Film Festival Human Rights Award. To promote student film development, Yip co-founded Groundsup Student Film Festival with fellow local independent filmmakers.

LEE Wai Kwan is a writer and journalist who has been working with local independent news media such as Initium Media, Ming Pao Weekly and Inmedia HK. Her works focus on gender equality, grassroots community, and human rights of ethnic minorities. Lee received the Mind HK Media Award in 2019.

Yip Wai Man and Lee Wai Kwan  Artists’ Statement
“Migrant Down the Rabbit Hole” documents the story of Yuli, a Hong Kong domestic worker from Indonesia.  Despite her low status as a maid, Yuli is a novelist who won a literature award and also a journalist dedicated to writing. During the Hong Kong protest movements, Yuli “falls into a rabbit hole” and finds herself reporting the anti-extradition movement every Sunday, her only day off. Her thoughts and caring about the city are far more from what people usually imagine as the narrative of a domestic worker. But they are not only migrant domestic workers: they also have other social roles, and are a citizen of Hong Kong.