Cooperating with China’s Propaganda with Fake Film Festival – International – Liberty Times Newsletter



The French director of the documentary “Spring, See Hong Kong”, Lie Li Forui, has lived in China for many years and is suspected of acting as a propaganda tool for Beijing. (Taken from Lie Fury’s Facebook)

2022/08/23 05:30

[Compiled by Sun Yuqing/Comprehensive Report]The “China Media Research Project” of the University of Hong Kong debunks the suspicion of fake Chinese documentary “Spring, See Hong Kong”. In line with the doubts of the CCP’s propaganda agencies “big internal propaganda” and “big external propaganda”, it once again highlights the operation mode that Chinese propaganda agencies are good at “mixing the fake with the real”.

Director consultants have many intersections

Hong Kong University investigators found that the French director Benoit Lelievre of “Spring, See Hong Kong”, as well as Chinese director Jin Huaqing, who served as a consultant, and the chairman and artist of the Greek “Yerapetra International Documentary Film Festival” (IDFI) Eleni Vlassi, the director, has a great relationship with each other. For example, Jin Huaqing joined the IDFI jury in 2018 and 19, and Lie Furui also participated. The three also joined forces at China’s “Silk Road International Film Festival” and other similar events, and were reported by the Chinese media, but Jin Huaqing insisted that he did not know Lie Furui, nor did he work with Wallassy.

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IDFI has close relationship with China

In addition, IDFI has a very close relationship with China, including jointly promoting the “Chinese Dream” project with nine large international film festivals in China in 2016, and has successively awarded awards to a number of “Chinese culture and medical experts” in the past few years. Scholars”, but none of these scholars have anything to do with the film. It is puzzling that other film festivals around the world have never mentioned this plan, while the organizers behind the Chinese film festivals that cooperate with IDFI mostly work closely with the CCP’s local propaganda agencies. For example, “Haining Film Culture”, the organizer of the “Silk Road International Film Festival”, has cooperated with the local publicity department to launch a “tell China’s story well” piece.

Not only that, in his documentary “Hong Kong, Please Shine Again”, Jin Huaqing told the “anti-extradition” movement from Beijing’s perspective, accusing Hong Kong of “radical and violent crimes” that were instigated by “Western anti-China” forces, and stressed that ” The National Security Law for Hong Kong is supported by the general public. Although the film has the same style as the official promotional film, it was still awarded the “Best Foreign Language Short Film” award by IDFI. The Hong Kong media also quoted Wallasi’s affirmation of the film, but it was not confirmed by Wallasi himself.

The HKU team bluntly stated that foreign recognition is obviously an important step for the Chinese-language media to promote “Hong Kong, please shine again” because it legitimizes Beijing’s stance on political events in Hong Kong. Xia Hong, a researcher at the Institute of Strategic Studies, a military school funded by the French Ministry of Defense, said that from the above case, it can be seen that China’s propaganda methods are clumsy, and Lie Furui may only be a name-caller, and Chinese officials do not care about the channels or effects of propaganda, and everything is only about achieving performance. .

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