RUNDOWN:
18:30     Registration
18:45     Opening remarks
18:50     Screening
20:15     Post-Screening Talk and Q&A
20:35     Closing remarks
20:40     Book signing
21:00     End

ASHK member price: HKD60
Non-member price: HKD80

The film will be in Mandarin with English subtitles

Join us at ASHK for a screening of Gate of Nine Dragons: SEARCHING FOR KUNG FU, a film exploring how Kung Fu, as a dynamic embodiment of Chinese principles and values, can be an important carrier of Chinese culture on different levels of social discourse. Through the eyes of a seasoned foreigner, who has spent more than four decades researching and practicing martial arts, the film showcases the charm of Kung Fu and the unique value of Chinese culture in an alternate perspective.

Following the screening, a Q&A session featuring director Laurence Brahm and Professor Priscilla Leung will be conducted, where they will discuss the making of the film, the role of martial arts in philosophy, and how Kung Fu can act as a catalyst for deeper understanding between the East and the West.

Those interested in purchasing Brahm’s book, Gate of Nine Dragons: SEARCHING FOR KUNG FU, can do so at the program.

About Gate of Nine Dragons: SEARCHING FOR KUNG FU

The documentary film Gate of Nine Dragons: SEARCHING FOR KUNG FU presents Chinese values through the lens of traditional martial arts. Gate of Nine Dragons embodies nine traditional principles represented by nine Chinese characters, explained by different Kung Fu masters through the skill set of their different martial arts styles such as Hsing Yi, Bagua, and Taichi. Through the lens of film director Laurence Brahm, we can understand these traditional principles as embodying universal values.

Buy a copy of Gate of Nine Dragons: SEARCHING FOR KUNG FU from our store.

Laurence Brahm is an explorer, author, and international award-winning film director and producer. He is the founder of Shambhala Studio, specializing in films related to Himalayan culture and Asian martial arts.

Between 2017-2024, he has produced and directed three documentaries on the life of the Lotus Born Master, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, together with three science fiction films on the Shambhala prophecies. Together this film series has won over thirty international film festival awards. He has also directed and produced films on Kung Fu, including the award winning “Searching for Kung Fu” documentary. On special request from the Karate Association of China, he directed a documentary tracing the origins of Karate to Shaolin Kung Fu. He is a Fifth Degree Black Belt in Shotokan Karate, a fourth-generation lineage holder in Zhangjia Kungfu, and has extensive training experience in Wing Chun, Qigong and Shaolin Five Animal Neigong. He is also a deep practitioner of Tibetan Secret Yoga.

In 2021 he received the China Book Special Contribution Award. In 2019 at the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, he received the Friendship Award. In 2016, he received the China Social Responsibility Award for his work drafting the national Ecological Civilization policy.

Priscilla Leung
Founding President of the Hong Kong Association for External Friendship
Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Hong Kong delegate to the National People’s Congress Member of the Basic Law Committee of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee

Prof. Priscilla Leung is a Hong Kong legislator, barrister, and law professor at City University of Hong Kong. She specializes in Chinese Law, the Hong Kong Basic Law, and cross-border legal disputes. She chairs the Legislative Council’s Education Panel and previously led its Judicial and Legal Affairs Panel. An arbitrator with CIETAC and AALCO, she also advises on foreign law applications in Mainland China. A founder of the Hong Kong WTO Research Institute, she has published extensively on law and trade. Prof. Leung also led the Green Council (2000–2018) and received the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award in 2000. As the Founding President of the Hong Kong Association for External Friendship, Prof. Leung is dedicated to fostering international friendship and collaboration through cultural exchanges, economic cooperation and civil relationships.

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