Hong Kong student Wong Ying-ying took home the Special Jury Award for her experimental film "We Search" at the 2nd Korea Youth International Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea.
"We Search" is a seven-minute improvised film exploring concepts of gender. A static camera is used to observe the behavior of a young man and woman playing around with bits of old material in an abandoned building, Wong said at an interview with Xinhua on Saturday.
The 24-year old girl is in her third year studying for the BA in Creative Media at the School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong.
She was overwhelmed when she heard about the good news that her work had been awarded the Special Jury Award last month.
"The standard of the works of the contestants in Seoul was really high," she said.
Before the shoot, Wong, the director, asked the actors to do what they wanted in front of the camera.
As the film unfolds, on 12 split screens, the action is punctuated with comments from interviews with men and women in Hong Kong about their perceptions of gender roles and differences.
Wong said her film was more experimental than other films at the festival in Seoul and that was the key to win recognition fromthe jury.
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