Rosa Fong is an award winning writer and director with over 15 years experience working in the film and television industry. Her films have won awards from the British Film Institute and Arts Council of England and she has directed programmes for both the BBC and Channel 4. Michael Brook in BFI Screen On-line said, "Rosa Fong's short film (Red) was and remains one of the very few British films to examine a British-Chinese culture clash on a level other than a comedic one." Her practice-based research explores transcultural identities and narrative structures and she has lectured on these at London University Birkbeck, the Victoria and Albert Museum and at national conferences. Her recent practice-led research focuses on memory, displacement, identity and performativity, and this is explored through a documentary called “Deconstructing Zoe” about a transgender actor. An installation film called, “Memory: Of Time and Place”, is in the early stages of production. This film looks at dementia using the autobiography as a vehicle and examines how memory shapes identity and culture. An interactive exhibition on the hidden history on the forced repatriation of Merseyside seamen in 1946 was staged at Williamson Art Gallery and Edge Hill University in 2018. Rosa is a Senior Lecturer on the Film and Television Production Programme and has module leader responsibilities for Digital Shorts, Genre Film making, Television Drama and Independent Film. She is currently developing a module on Directing and was part of the cross-departmental team developing an MA in Scriptwriting. She is the departmental representative for Equality and Diversity. Writing and Directing Credits: Director "Council House Movie Star" Edge Hill University A video installation in collaboration with dancemaker Mark Edward. Screened at the Homotopia Festival Oct. 2012. Her first credit as a feature film scriptwriter is for a comedy called Queen of Wok, in which four Tiger mothers go head to head with their children in a TV cookery contest. In the heat of the kitchen intergenerational tensions are battled out and we discover a few home truths about each family. Queen of Wok tells the story of the unique strength of British Chinese family life, told with a sprinkling of five-spice. Developed through the UK Film Council in 2011 and was recently featured at FACT in Liverpool as part of the Near Neighbours Director/ co-writer “Water Wings” North West Vision and UK Film Council Ten-minute DVD. A young boy struggles to find sanctuary way from his violent home-life and befriends a small girl at the local swimming pool, with tragic consequences. Director/ Writer, “Chinese for Beginners” Spirit Dance UK – Channel 4 4x 3-minute films for Channel 4 The Slot: A Fish called Tao, Cosmic Chi, Confucius Say and Feng Shui. The series was a light-hearted take on Chinese philosophy. Screened on Channel 4. “Chinese for Beginners benefits from entertaining, well-written scripts and strong performances….Fong successfully merges education and entertainment in each film.” Ling-Wan Pak BFI Screen on-line Director “TEN” Spirit Dance UK/ British Screen/ Film Four. Short-listed to direct an episode in a feature length film based on the Ten Commandments. Director/ writer “RED” British Film Institute/ Channel 4 35mm colour 26min drama shown at the London film festival. A short drama for cinematic release - Red is set in 1976 and follows a young Chinese woman’s journey to England to find her estranged parents. Red, is a fable about love, freedom and Elvis. Selected for The Audience Prize at the European First Film Festival, France; British Short Film Festival, UK; La Mo-Viola; Florida Film Festival and Uppsala. Director/ Writer “A Dream of Venus Butterfly.” Arts Council of Britain/ Channel 4 16mm colour film. Billed as a “magic realist film” about a woman who falls in love with a caterpillar. Euclid Cinema Film Festival, Toronto; ‘Midnight Flux’, Minima, London; Asian Film Festival, Toronto. Director / Producer “Tian” Arts Council of Britain/ BBC2 A one-minute poetic film. Shown on BBC2 and at the Brazil Film Festival, Changing Worlds film festival at the ICA London. Director/ Producer “Linear Rhythm”. 16mm colour documentary for Arts Council of Britain ‘Black Arts’ video award. 26min documentary, which looks at the work of three British Chinese artists. Featuring the actress Lucy Sheen from Po Chi’s film, ‘Ping-Pong’ and Qu Lei-lei of the ‘Stars Movement’, Beijing, it was shown internationally at Birmingham Film Festival, UK Oakland Film Festival USA. Director “Spirit of Glastonbury.” Working Pictures - MTV Europe A 16mm documentary. The film looked at the stories behind the some of the people who go to the Glastonbury festival. Director/ Producer “China’s New Art” Commissioned by the Baring Foundation. A 26min documentary, shot in China, looking at contemporary fine art in Yunnan Province. The filming took me to some politically sensitive regions in China at a time when contemporary art was still frowned upon by the government. Conference Papers • 31st May 2012 China in Britian: Myths and Realities supported by: AHRC ‘Translating Cultures’ Research Networking Grant. Screening of Rosa’s films and conference with Hollywood director Mike Newell on British Chinese cinema. • 28th March 2012 AHRC supported research network CFFUK. Paper on “The Uncanny disruption of British Chinese filmmakers” at the Distribution and Exhibition of Chinese and Asian Cinema in the UK symposium, Corner House Manchester. • May 4th 2011 GenSex seminars Edge Hill University. Paper on“Real Women”. • July 2010 Screen studies conference, Glasgow: Paper called “An object of Performing life: The body of film viewership” • London Chinese Arts Forum: Chinese Cultural Centre on Arts in the Chinese Community. • Colours of Asia: Black Arts Centre on arts and the Asian Community • Private Families, Public Lives: Tricycle Theatre on Chinese Women. • Worlds of difference: Birkbeck College, London University on Images of Chinese Women in the Cinema. • Half the Sky: Victoria & Albert Museum on the identity of Chinese Women in China and Britain. • Critical Practices: Power Theory and Visual Culture. Paper on: Radical Texts: Problems and audiences. Looking at how cultural values are no longer neutral concept.