• Thursday, November 05th, 2020 
• Registration 17:45, Discussion 18:00, Close 19:00
• ASHK Members $120; Non-members $150
• Online Registration Required; Asia Society Hong Kong Center
• Conducted in English

Australian writer and broadcaster Benjamin Law created and co-wrote three seasons of the award-winning TV series The Family Law, based on his hilarious and heartbreaking memoir of the same name. Today he talks with Hong Kong screenwriter and director Ray Yeung about the process of bringing fiction to the big screen, the embrace of queer stories by mainstream media, and how these stories are regarded and reflected within Hong Kong society, and in the diaspora. Benjamin Law will join virtually.

Benjamin Law is an Australian writer and broadcaster. He’s the author of The Family Law, Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East, Moral Panic 101 and editor of Growing Up Queer in Australia. Benjamin created and co-wrote three seasons of the SBS TV series The Family Law, based on his memoir, which won Best Comedy at the Asian Television Awards. In 2019, he was named one of the Asian-Australian Leadership Summit’s (AALS) 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians (winning the Arts, Culture & Sport category) and one of Harper’s Bazaar’s Visionary Men. His sold-out debut play Torch the Place (Melbourne Theatre Company) ran February–March 2020. 

Ray Yeung is an MFA graduate of Columbia University with a major in Film Directing; his first feature, CUT SLEEVE BOYS, premiered in Rotterdam (RIFF) in 2005. His second film, FRONT COVER premiered at Seattle’s SIFF in 2015 and screened at 40 international film festivals. It was theatrically released in the USA, Thailand and Hong Kong. Ray’s third feature SUK SUK (TWILIGHT’S KISS) was nominated for 5 Golden Horse Awards including Best Narrative Feature and Best Screenplay. The film was also nominated for 9 Hong Kong Film Awards; it won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress at the HKFA. (Moderator)