Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Film on 2019 Hong Kong protests vies for Oscars, riles China” – below is their description.
For the first time since 1969, Hong Kong movie fans will not be able to watch the Academy Awards live on TV.
Do Not Split, has been nominated for an Oscar in the short-subject documentary category. The 35-minute documentary centres around Hong Kong anti-government demonstrations of 2019.
Media reports claim that Beijing authorities had instructed mainland media outlets to downplay the Oscars, which is likely to have had a knock-on effect in Hong Kong.
And the National Security Law is casting a shadow on the city’s film industry, once considered the Hollywood of the East.
Al Jazeera’s Divya Gopalan reports from Hong Kong.
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Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel
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Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.