Top directors come to King's for Chinese Visual Festival

Some of the most exciting directors in Chinese language cinema will be showcased at the Chinese Visual Festival (CVF) hosted at King's College London again this year. The festival, now in its fifth year, will bring major directors in documentary, fiction and experimental video art from Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and beyond to London. The festival will be hosted at King's with events also being held at the British Film Institute, Southbank, Bertha DocHouse and Chelsea College of Arts from 7-22 May. Guests will be joined by a rich variety of leading academics and key figures in the documentary film industry and related social studies, who will take part in Q&A sessions as well as a programme of talks and symposia, making the festival a lively forum for discussion and debate. Dying tradition Guest artists include Gu Tao, whose documentary The Last Moose of Aoluguya, an award winning film exploring dying tradition and the fate of ethnic minority groups in modern China, will open the festival. A Q&A session with the director will follow the screening and there will be a panel discussion on the controversies of ethnographic film making on Sunday 10 May. Collaboration with the Taiwan Ministry of Culture this year will see the featuring of the very best in independent Taiwanese cinema, covering a wide range of films by exciting and talented directors.