Ray Toi-Yeung Wong
Acting
Biography
Ray Wong Toi-yeung (Chinese: 黃台仰; born 15 September 1993) is a Hong Kong activist. He is the founder of the localist camp group Hong Kong Indigenous, established alongside other activists disillusioned with the perceived ineffectiveness of Hong Kong's mainstream pro-democracy movement during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. Wong played a prominent role in the 2016 Mong Kok civil unrest, which took place on Lunar New Year's Day (8 February 2016). Following the incident, he was arrested later that month. He later fled Hong Kong and became the first British national to be granted asylum in a member state of the European Union.
Known For
The Umbrella Movement of 2014, also known as the Occupy Movement, paved the way for Hong Kong’s current upheavals, but unfolded in significantly different ways. This creative documentary focuses on the intellectual, political, and discursive underpinnings of the social and political actions of 2014, before fast-forwarding to 2019. A range of thoughtful and engaged intellectuals, students, scholars, activists, and artists including Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man, Ray Wong, and Agnes Chow (many of whom are facing imprisonment for their democratic activism) articulate a range of philosophies, viewpoints and emotions, set against Hong Kong’s spectacular urban background of skyscrapers, night lights, and street-occupying mass movements.
We Have Boots
Two young Hong Kong activists reflect on their resistance against China, are forced to decide between long-term imprisonment and refugee camps for a life in exile, while their movement inspires mass protests in the city they love.