Our Team

Elysa Wendi is a filmmaker and artist-curator whose practice spans the intersection of performance and moving image.  Based between Hong Kong and Singapore, she co-founded Cinemovement, a platform that incubates interdisciplinary films through collaborative laboratories across Asia.

Preoccupied with the abstraction of memory from place, time, and biographical traces, Wendi explores these themes in her live and filmic works. Her childhood experiences of growing up nomadically across the lands of south East Asia continues to impact her works and practice. Straddling the amorphous boundaries between borders, languages, and histories, Wendi works through hybrid documentary projects, audio-visual essays, and meta-choreographic rituals to explore the auto-fictional narratives of bodies and movements. She has served as festival curator for the Jumping Frames Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival since 2021.

CCDC’s Artistic Director Sang Jijia has won numerous international dance awards as well as the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship to study in the US. In 2002, he was chosen by the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative to study choreography under William Forsythe in Germany and stayed on at Ballet Frankfurt and the Forsythe Company as assistant choreographer and dancer. In 2023, he was awarded the Honorary Fellowship by the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2024, he was presented with ‘Distinguished Achievement Awards’ by the 25th Hong Kong Dance Awards and ‘Artist of the Year (Dance)’ by the 18th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards.

Choi Sin-yi (Emilie) is a researcher, writer, and curator based in Hong Kong, and currently a PhD candidate at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Choi’s writing has appeared in journals such as Modernism/modernity and Film Quarterly.  She has presented her research at institutions such as transmediale (Germany) and the EYE Filmmuseum (Netherlands).  Choi has curated numerous film programs and visual arts exhibitions, including Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival; Hong Kong Retrospective Documentary Film Festival: From the 80s to 1997; Macao Experimental Cinema. She was also selected for the international Curatorial Program for Research 2023: (RE)PRESENTATION IN THE NORDICS. She also serves on the boards of Videotage and Unlock Dancing Plaza.

Timmy Chih-ting CHEN is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University. Dr. Chen has published in  A Companion to Wong Kar-wai (Wiley Blackwell), the Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Surveillance in Asian Cinema (Routledge), The Assassin (HKU Press), Frames Cinema Journal, Sound Stage Screen, and Film Quarterly. He has served as jury for the Hong Kong Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival, the ifva Awards, the Singapore International Film Festival, and the Berlinale’s Forum section.

Eric Kay is the programme coordinator of the City Contemporary Dance Company and Jumping Frames. He holds a Master of Fine Arts  in Film, Television, and Digital Media from the Hong Kong Baptist University.  A passionate cinephile and former journalist, Kay is now a documentary and independent filmmaker, currently working on his debut feature-length documentary, A Malady of the Cities.