Please join us for a screening and Q&A with filmmaker and producer Hansen Lin to discuss his and Deming Chen’s award-winning film Always on February 23rd at Kellen Auditorium.
Set in the countryside of Hunan, ALWAYS traces the inner world of Gong Youbin, born into poverty and separated from his mother since infancy. Through a poetry class at school, Gong discovers writing as a means of imagination and emotional exploration. As childhood dreams coexist with the harsh realities of family life, the film becomes an allegory for innocence lost and the quiet inevitability of growing up.
Program Duration: 87 min
About the Filmmaker
Hansen Lin is a Chinese independent producer based in New York, where he founded TimeLight Films, a production company dedicated to breaking boundaries between reality and cinema and amplifying underrepresented voices and stories. He has produced author-driven films across both nonfiction and fiction. His latest producing credit, Always (dir. Deming Chen, 2025), won the DOX:AWARD at CPH:DOX and received numerous awards at international film festivals. He is an alum of EURODOC and the Film Independent Producing Fellowship.
Please join us for this screening and Q&A, hosted and moderated by Amir Husak, Director of Documentary Studies and Assistant Professor of Media Studies.
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