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I AM NOT A VIRUS

On May 27th, 2020 call was put out for East Asian female-identifying participants for a digital project called I AM NOT A VIRUS

  • Jennifer Tang
    Director
  • Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen
    Writer
    Abandoned, Adopted, Here, I know This Face, Sweet Meat, Before We Were Yellow, No More BAMES, GO BACK HOME! Milk Shaked Bard, Ungrateful:A Paper Daughter, I Call It Home, BABEL
  • Moongate Productions
    Producer
    Dream of Emerald Hill
  • Amanda C Maud
    Key Cast
  • Melody Brown
    Key Cast
  • Fiona Hampton
    Key Cast
  • Jessie Baek
    Key Cast
  • Kae Alexander
    Key Cast
  • Kumiko Mendl
    Key Cast
  • Lucy Sheen
    Key Cast
    Writer/Director/Producer Abandoned Adopted Here, Writer/Director GO BACK HOME!, Actor Ping Pong (1986) British Feature Film, Actor Secrets & Lies (2004), Actor Nighty Night series 2, Actor Call The Midwife S6, Ep3, Casualty S32 Ep3, Actor Shadow and Bone, Actor The Witcher S2, Actor Silent Witness S24 Ep3&4, Actor Casualty S36 Ep30,
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    dramatic doc, short, identity
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 36 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    150 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • #WeRNotVirus
    London
    United Kingdom
    June 17, 2020
    Premiere
Director Biography - Jennifer Tang

Jennifer is currently the Genesis Fellow & Associate Director of the Young Vic theatre in London. She was recently listed in ELLE UK's 2020 Hotlist, a celebration of the new leaders and shakers reframing the worlds of fashion, beauty, politics and culture.

Jennifer is an award-winning UK and International theatre director, specialising in new writing and fusing theatre with music.

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Director Statement

Statement from the writer Lucy Sheen
I am unashamedly British East and South East Asian (BESEA) being "born" on the British Crown colony of Hong Kong I am of both Chinese and Dai heritage. I was abandoned one about three days old on the streets of KowLoon and taken to an orphanage. My place in this world in the society that I was transported to and transplanted into has always been questioned by others even myself. I am committed to placing the narrative of BESEAS at the heart of my work. I am also committed to ensuring that at least 50% of the creative team are female and if at all possible 50% are of BESEA heritage if not 50% of the creative team must be of colour As a founding member of BEATS.org I know that the lack of nuanced representaiton of BESEAS on screen impacts directly on the continues bias, prejudice, racism and recent COVID19 hate and abuse directed towards BESEAS. It is therefore imperative that UK media address this directly by commissioning, hiring, casting more BESEAS. Producting more content that is helmed, created and produced by BESEAS both historical and contemporary. Utiliging the forgotten and very often silenced voices and ignored narratives of British East and South East Asians. Where we are seen and humanised as people, as British citizens, where the narrative is about our existence here in the UK not in some far flung exotic country which is used more often than not as a back drop where accents and the young East Asian females are more often than not bait for the gaze and more of the Westerner, the colonial power.
We will always have the story and history of our immigrant and migrant forebears but we are also people in our own right and our stories should add to those of our ancestors. We are not just migrants, immigrants, refugees and sojouners with forging accents to be ridicued and dehumanised. We are Brtish citizens who fought and died in both world wars. We have contributed to the success of this country and continue to do so scarfing sometimes our very lives. We are not "other" we are you and you are us. Now in 21st century it is time to allow the many hidden, untold and silenced stories from BESEAS to be told on screen. To be represented by BSEAS and authors by BESEAS