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12 June 2025

Excited to share that 綻放 to Freely Flourish has been shortlisted for St Kilda Film Festival's ‘Australia’s Top Short Film Competition'!

The St Kilda Film Festival is Australia’s longest-running short film festival and represents a key annual event on the national screen culture calendar. Accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the St Kilda Film Festival is an Academy Awards® qualifying event, with award-winning films from the Australia's Top Short Films Competition eligible for consideration in the Short Film Awards and Documentary Short sections of the Oscars®.

It will screen 9pm 12 June in St Kilda Townhall along side other shortlisted films. Details here

17 April 2025

You can now catch up on the Panel Discussion at the screening sponsored by the City of Sydney in partnership with ACON as part of the city's official 2025 Lunar New Year program!

The panel discussion was hosted by diversity and inclusion advocate Adrian Phoon with guests Nurul Tajularus, founder of Sydney queer Muslims, Cedric Cheng, founder of ANTRA and writer-director Victor Wu. They shared insights from their own personal lives as well as experiences from their advocacy and support work.

“We still have to work through those memories and the destructive impact [as individuals and as a community]. So to have this positive, beautiful story that helps us recuperate from that difficult time… It is an absolutely lovely thing.” - diversity and inclusion advocate, Adrian Phoon (host of the panel discussion)

15 May 2025

Excited to share that Parramatta Riverside Theatre will hold 2 screenings of To Freely Flourish in May!

Thursday, 15 May 7:00pm Film + Q&A session with the following panellists:
- Victor Wu 胡浩端 (writer/director/co-producer)
- Jude Ella (co-producer/cinematographer)
- Grace Ho (lead actor for role of Mum)
- Cedric Cheng 尹郑宇正 (founder of ANTRA)

Friday, 16 May at 7:00pm Film + Selection of Asian Australian short films

Sunday, 25 May at 4:30pm Film (with open captions for the hearing-impaired in English and Simplified Chinese) + Selection of Asian Australian short films

Tickets here

14 February 2025

Honoured to be invited by the City of Sydney Mayor's office to the raising of the Pride Progress Flag ceremony marking the start of Mardi Gras. And it was moving and galvanising to hear the Mayor and the Mardi Gras board member's speech addressing the challenges to our queer community and civil rights in the current social and political climate.

13 February 2025

Thank you to Canterbury-Bankstown city council for screening To Freely Flourish as part of their inaugural Our People's Festival! This is particularly significant since Bankstown with its large diaspora communities was one of the areas that was heavily targeted with misinformation during the 2017 Marriage Equality debate.

It was so heartening to see queer experiences and people with disability celebrated as an integral part of our diaspora communities.

30 January 2025

Thank you to City of Sydney for sponsoring a free community screening for Lunar New Year 2025 in partnership with ACON!

Their advocacy and promotion brought a full house of 150 audience from our diverse diaspora and queer communities. So grateful for the warm and enthusiastic reception.

And the insightful panel discussion hosted by diversity and inclusion advocate Adrian Phoon with Nurul Tajularus, founder of Sydney queer Muslims, Cedric Cheng, founder of ANTRA and with writer-director Victor Wu, really inspired and moved the audience.

7 Jan 2025

Thank you to Tury and Bill from 2CR Cantonese radio for their lovely interview about my film and story.

Interview can be streamed from here.

4 Jan 2025

Thank you to fellow musician and friend Joe Rahman at Alive FM for the thoughtful in depth interview delving into the inspirations and purpose of this film project.

Interview can be streamed from here.

24 Dec 2024

Thank you to Selina Kong from SBS Cantonese radio for their interview about my film and LNY screening. Daunted by the experience but also glad to have done my 1st ever interview in my original mother tongue 😅

Interview can be streamed from here.

1 December 2024

Please to share that To Freely Flourish has been selected for Queenstown Queer Film Festival later this month ☺️!

Hope this will help reach the Chinese diaspora community in New Zealand.

4 November 2024

It is a huge honour to share that To Freely Flourish was part of the Beijing Queer Film Festival's Love Queer Cinema Week. It was screened as part of their Queership & Kinship shorts program on 4 Nov, and had an audience of close to 70 people from the queer community in Beijing.

So glad the film is beginning to connect with Chinese communities around the world 😊

17 October 2024

Thank you to Divercity and Pride network at City of Sydney for hosting a workplace screening for their staff.

I was truly touched by their response to the film. Looking forward to working together to organise community screenings to reach our diaspora communities. 😊

26 September 2024

Thank you to @usydpride and @sydney_library at my alma mater University of Sydney for hosting a screening and my talk about my healing journey through queer diaspora filmmaking at their Pride Culture Club series. Such a lovely group and atmosphere to be sharing my story in😊

2 September 2024

Thank you to the tireless team at Qtopia for organising a screening for their wonderful volunteers at the atmospheric Substation. Their exhibits and art installations by local artists that speak from and to our shared Sydney queer history and community are truly moving and so important. So glad that the Chinese diaspora story was able to connect with people of different ages, backgrounds and experiences.

21 July 2024

A recording of the Q&A session hosted by Jay Ooi at the premiere screening is now on Youtube.

21 July 2024

Thank you everyone who came to our premiere screening and Q&A session hosted by Jay Ooi. We sold out a 153 seat cinema at Dendy Newtown! It was so touching to see how you connected with the film 😌. Join our mail-list and socials for future screenings and get in touch if you would like to organise a community screening or workplace screening!

10 June 2024

The premiere screening is planned for mid-July in Sydney Inner-West! And I'm excited to announce that it will have a post-screening Q&A session hosted by Jay Ooi, creator and producer of the critically acclaimed Shoes Off podcast! It was actually one of his podcast episodes which inspired the story for the script in the first place 3.5 years ago. And Jay was one of the first people I showed the first draft of the script to. I'm incredibly grateful for his encouragement. Join our mailing list or follow our socials (at the bottom of the page) for updates on the screening and latest developments!

13 April 2024

We finally finished our last day of shoot after weather and availability hurdles!

2 March 2024

We kicked off our production with a really great first 2 days of shooting. Grateful for everyone's patience and kind support for this first-time director.

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