About

Jimmy Lo is a documentary filmmaker and aspiring film educator from Hong Kong. In 2020, he completed his first feature documentary “Stories of Pang Jai”, which was executively produced by Oscar-winning documentarian Ruby Yang and funded by Hong Kong Documentary Initiative and Hong Kong Arts Development Council. The film was nominated for the Human Rights Award at the South Taiwan Film Festival 2020. His other short documentaries include Yung Yung (2016) and In(ex)ception (2018), which were screened and exhibited at the Hong Kong Chinese Documentary Festival and 1a space.

Prior to studying for his MFA in Film Production at UBC, Jimmy had been teaching in the tutorials and documentary workshops for an undergraduate filmmaking course and a master’s degree documentary course at The University of Hong Kong from 2018 to 2022. His previous students’ short documentaries “Granny” (2018) and “Doorway” (2018) were awarded with Honorary Mention at the Sundance Film Festival Hong Kong in 2018 and 2019 and some other previous students’ documentaries were publicly screened at MOViE MOViE Festival – LIFE IS ART, Sundance Film Festival HK, HK International Documentary Festival and Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.

Currently, Jimmy is working on his thesis film on the multigenerational, transnational migration of the Hong Kong immigrants in Canada.



About

Jimmy Lo is a documentary filmmaker and aspiring film educator from Hong Kong. In 2020, he completed his first feature documentary “Stories of Pang Jai”, which was executively produced by Oscar-winning documentarian Ruby Yang and funded by Hong Kong Documentary Initiative and Hong Kong Arts Development Council. The film was nominated for the Human Rights Award at the South Taiwan Film Festival 2020. His other short documentaries include Yung Yung (2016) and In(ex)ception (2018), which were screened and exhibited at the Hong Kong Chinese Documentary Festival and 1a space.

Prior to studying for his MFA in Film Production at UBC, Jimmy had been teaching in the tutorials and documentary workshops for an undergraduate filmmaking course and a master’s degree documentary course at The University of Hong Kong from 2018 to 2022. His previous students’ short documentaries “Granny” (2018) and “Doorway” (2018) were awarded with Honorary Mention at the Sundance Film Festival Hong Kong in 2018 and 2019 and some other previous students’ documentaries were publicly screened at MOViE MOViE Festival – LIFE IS ART, Sundance Film Festival HK, HK International Documentary Festival and Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.

Currently, Jimmy is working on his thesis film on the multigenerational, transnational migration of the Hong Kong immigrants in Canada.


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Jimmy Lo is a documentary filmmaker and aspiring film educator from Hong Kong. In 2020, he completed his first feature documentary “Stories of Pang Jai”, which was executively produced by Oscar-winning documentarian Ruby Yang and funded by Hong Kong Documentary Initiative and Hong Kong Arts Development Council. The film was nominated for the Human Rights Award at the South Taiwan Film Festival 2020. His other short documentaries include Yung Yung (2016) and In(ex)ception (2018), which were screened and exhibited at the Hong Kong Chinese Documentary Festival and 1a space.

Prior to studying for his MFA in Film Production at UBC, Jimmy had been teaching in the tutorials and documentary workshops for an undergraduate filmmaking course and a master’s degree documentary course at The University of Hong Kong from 2018 to 2022. His previous students’ short documentaries “Granny” (2018) and “Doorway” (2018) were awarded with Honorary Mention at the Sundance Film Festival Hong Kong in 2018 and 2019 and some other previous students’ documentaries were publicly screened at MOViE MOViE Festival – LIFE IS ART, Sundance Film Festival HK, HK International Documentary Festival and Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.

Currently, Jimmy is working on his thesis film on the multigenerational, transnational migration of the Hong Kong immigrants in Canada.