Chinese film maker, Fan Popo speaks with Fridae.com’s Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett about having his first “gay experience” when he was just three and how he found his calling as a filmmaker.
Fridae.com’s Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett meets Reggie Ho, Chairman of Hong Kong’s Gay Helpline Service, HORIZONS – one of the oldest LGBT organisations in the territory.
Acclaimed British gay novelist Patrick Gale comes to Singapore this weekend for a book talk on Feb 19 and a writing workshop from Feb 20 to 21. Fridae chats to him about fiction, love and cattle farming.
Then a history and economics major, Jeff Sheng changed his mind about going to law school after taking courses with some of the film and photography professors at Harvard and realising that media and activist art could be used to affect change in society.
Fridae.com’s Hong Kong correspondent, Nigel Collett, talks to Sunil Babu Pant, MP, founder of Nepal’s Blue Diamond Society and pioneer of the development of Nepal’s new human rights.
Desmond Sim's poolside drama The Swimming Instructor makes its way north to the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre from Dec 3-13 after being stage thrice in Singapore.
Fridae speaks to Loretta Chen, Artistic Director of Zebra Crossing, and possibly Singapore's most outspoken lesbian, about her latest production Victor/Victoria, a musical starring famed jazz singer Laura Fygi in the title role as a woman who impersonates a man to become a female impersonator.
Zhou Dan, a lawyer and who helped start a hotline for LGBTs in his native Shanghai in 2003, tells Fridae’s Hong Kong correspondent Nigel Collett about becoming aware of his own sexual orientation in a time where China regarded homosexuality as an ‘illness’ or ‘disorder’ to being a leading voice for gay rights in China.
Glen Goei of Forever Fever fame is back with The Blue Mansion after an 11-year hiatus from filmmaking. He tells Fridae what inspired the quirky murder mystery film which will have its world premiere at the Pusan International Film Festival on Oct 10, and what he considers worse than death.
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