Cily, Ngai Sze Pang

Brief Bio:

Cily, Ngai Sze Pang was born in 1991 in Hong Kong. After graduating in Journalism and Communication, she worked in the news industry for 4 years with the last job as a political news reporter. In 2019, Cily started her study for Master of Arts in Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices at the University of Münster, Germany and graduated in 2023 with her graduation work “For Security Reason”. The short documentary talks about the belonging of the Hong Kong diaspora in London. In 2022 and 2023, she worked for ArtHood Entertainment, a world distributor for art house and auteur cinema in Berlin, as intern and part-time worker.

Project Abstract:

How does a war change people’s lives? Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine for almost 2 years. Media’s discourse mainly focuses on the diplomatic and heroic side of the war. My film is aimed at studying the underlying pieces that aren’t obviously seen. Extending the anthropological perspectives from other academics, I’ll go back to Zdovbytsya, a town in western Ukraine where my friend, Marta Shmendel comes from so as to shoot the daily routine of the family and their neighbours at places, like school and volunteer centres to examine Ukrainian’s fear and dream. The work would be a collaborative film with Marta, a sociology master student in Münster University.