Working under the scrutiny of secret police while filming the documentary Hooligan Sparrow, filmmaker Nanfu Wang paints a harrowing portrait of the oppression of Chinese dissidents.

Nanfu Wang’s documentary Hooligan Sparrow follows a Chinese artist-activist as she seeks justice for victims of a child sex bribery scandal. Filming secretly with a variety of hidden cameras and devices, Wang found herself followed, interrogated and constantly in fear of her work (and life) being destroyed.

Born in a remote farming village in Jiangxi Province, Chinese-American filmmaker Wang seeks to illuminate lives normally hidden from the view of the West. Her works include a variety of photographs and short films, as well as the feature-length documentary, There Is No Time, which follows a homeless man in Florida over the course of a month.

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