Liu, Kanas (廖潔雯)

Born in Hong Kong in 1986, Kanas Liu is an independent filmmaker. She studied Cultural Sciences at Lingnan University and produced two documentaries about the Umbrella Movement in 2014: Van Drivers and Van Drivers 2. Her co-directed 2019 documentary Not One Less records the August 31 clashes on Hong Kong Island and the Mid-Autumn festival assembly supporting protestors in custody. Her second short film about the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement, Comrades, was screened as part of Generation 14plus at the 2020 Berlinale Film Festival.

Filmography   Top

Feature Films:

Role	Title (English)	Title (Chinese)	Year
Director	Not One Less (Short)	缺一不可	2019
Director	Comrades (Short)	手足	2019
	Be Water (Short) – credited to a group of independent documentary filmmakers		2019
Director	Trial and Error (Short)		2019
Director	The Time of the Individual (Short)	用自己方式的時代	2019
Director	Van Drivers 2	義載 2	2016
Director	Van Drivers	義載	2015

Links   Top

Pernin, Judith. “Filming the Individual and the Collective: The 2019 Pro-democracy Movement in Hong Kong Independent Documentaries.” MCLC Resource Centre, The Ohio State University (October 2021): https://u.osu.edu/mclc/online-series/pernin/

Sundays for Hong Kong II: Films about a ruptured city: https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/berliner-festspiele/on-demand/2020/sundays-for-hong-kong-filme.html

Kanas Liu’s IMDb entry: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11399328/?ref_=tt_ov_dr