Co-sponsors: UCLA Asia Pacific Center, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, Pomona College Asian Studies Program, UC Irvine Center for Asian Studies, and UC Irvine Long US-China Institute.

This online screening is free and accessible worldwide. After you register, participants will receive an email with links to both the screening and Q&A with director Adam Wong.
Virtual Screening: The Way We Keep Dancing 狂舞派 3
[Pacific Time, US & Canada] April 7, 2022 8PM to April 8, 2022 8PM

[Hong Kong Time] April 8, 2021 11AM to April 9, 2021 11AM

Q&A with Director Adam Wong 

[Pacific Time] April 8, 2022 8PM

[Hong Kong Time] April 9, 2022 11AM

Format: Online Event on Zoom

About the Film

The Kowloon Industrial District is home to many of Hong Kong’s artists, including rapper Heyo, YouTuber Alan, rising star Hana, and dancer. However, the government is preparing the area for gentrification. The group from ‘The Way We Dance’ were invited to participate in a publicity stunt to transform the district into a ‘Dance Street’. Alan points out that this is an opportunity to garner support from the public. Meanwhile, Heyo’s master Afuc is planning a revolution…

Awards and Festivals

★ 57th Golden Horse Nominations

• Best Adapted Screenplay  - Wong Sau Ping Adam

• Best New Performer - Heyo

• Best Action Choreography - Shing Mak

• Best Sound Effects - Thomas Cheng, Vincent Tam King-Wah, Chill Yang

• Best Original Film Song - Welcome to This City

• Best Film Editing - Mary Stephen, Adam Wong Sau-Ping

★ 57th Golden Horse Film Festival - Closing Film

Adam Wong 黃修平

(Director)

By The Way We Dance, Adam won the Best New Director of the Hong Kong Film Awards and the Hong Kong Film Director’s Guild in 2013. The Way We Dance and She Remembers, He Forgets got nominations at the Golden Horse Awards and were awarded at the Hong Kong Film Awards. The sequel, The Way We Keep Dancing has been born, which gets six nominations at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Award and is the closing film of the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.  

Reviews

“Politics have always been part of Wong’s movies. The dream-chasing sentiment of The Way We Dance captures the hopefulness of a Hong Kong pre-Umbrella Movement. After the failure of that event, the dual timeline She Remembers, He Forgets was already laced with middle-aged regret of dashed dreams. And now in 2021, The Way We Keep Dancing brings utter helplessness to the surface. ”

— Cinama Escapist