Director biography

Zeng Jinyan, scholar, writer, and documentary filmmaker, is currently a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research and creative interests focus on culture and politics; intellectual identity and social activism; poetry and documentary film; gender and sexuality; and ethnicity, with a particular emphasis on China. She produced and co-directed Prisoners in Freedom City with Hu Jia (2007) and Outcry and Whisper (2020) with Wen Hai and Trish McAdam, wrote the script for A Poem to Liu Xia (Trish McAdam, 2015), and produced We the Workers (Wen Hai, 2017). Hu Jia is a Chinese civil rights activist. His work has focused on the Chinese democracy movement, Chinese environmentalist movement, and HIV/AIDS in the People's Republic of China. Hu is the director of the June Fourth Heritage and Culture Association, and he has been involved with AIDS advocacy as the executive director of the Beijing Aizhixing Institute of Health Education and as one of the founders of the non-governmental organization Loving Source. He has also been involved in work to protect the endangered Tibetan antelope. For his activism, Hu has received awards from several European bodies, such as the Paris City Council and the European Parliament, which awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to him in December 2008.