Don’t miss your chance to bag tickets for Mind HK‘s Hong Kong Mental Health Conference in Nov! With an exciting line-up of local and international speakers, all pioneers in their fields, this is shaping up to be an unmissable event for anybody with an interest in mental health! The conference will be followed by a Wellbeing Festival Nov 8!
To Love A Narcissist has been nominated for Best Feature by a film festival in New Zealand! The festival takes place Sept 13 – Nov 15, with selected films being shown at cinemas across NZ. The awards ceremony will be held at the Bridgeway Cinema in Aukland.
The film made headlines in Italy over the summer following its Italian premiere at the Ariano International Film Festival 2025, where director Raff was presented the Hirpus d’Oro award. 🫶
Despite the Hong Kong weather’s best efforts to drown me on the way there and back, the launch of Mind HK’s summer 2025 exhibition Listen to the Beat at Our Gallery was EPIC – and PACKED!!! Congrats Mind HK for curating an unbeatable exhibition of ambassadors’ work! My contribution is among the handwritten letters on display. I also shared a bit of my story as part of a panel. If you’re looking for an inspiring, cool and DRY place to hang in Hong Kong this summer, swing by! The exhibition is open until 15 Aug.
Excited to be one of the ambassadors taking part in Mind HK’s summer 2025 exhibition at Our Gallery, Wan Chai. Last summer’s Here and Now exhibition at the 3812 Gallery was epic! This one is called Listen to the Beat. My contribution is a handwritten letter. The last thing I wrote by hand was my signature – it was declined by my bank as illegible.
I’ll also be sharing my story in a panel alongside two other ambassadors this coming SAT (2 Aug) from 3.30-5pm. Tix are free but you must sign up! The exhibition is open 1-15 Aug. If you’re sweating in the city this summer, swing by!
To Love A Narcissist screened at the iconic Cinema Village in New York! The film was shown on the closing night of the Socially Relevant Film Festival 2025 and we were blown away by the emotional response to the film. Raff and I also had fun attending the festival’s opening night celebration at the historic National Arts Club in Gramercy Park.
This was the second time Contro Vento Films reached the competition stage of SRFF. We received the Jury Prize (Narrative Feature) for our viral bipolar love story Transference in 2020. It was an honour to be part of a diverse program of socially relevant films. Thanks to everyone who made it happen. We can’t wait for the next one!
https://www.ratedsrfilms.org/2025-program-narrative-features
I discovered I’d been nominated for a GHP Mental Health Award a few weeks ago for my contribution via Mental Ideas and Bipolar Hong Kong. Well, apparently I’ve won ‘Most Dedicated Mental Health Advocate 2025’ (Hong Kong)! 😂 🙏🏼
Thanks to everyone who’s given me a platform to rant and muse about mental health, especially Mind HK and RTHK. It’s a lovely way to celebrate the 10th birthday of Bipolar Hong Kong! 🇭🇰 🩷
Excited to share that To Love A Narcissist, the film I’ve been producing with Contro Vento Films, will premiere at the New York Socially Relevant Film Festival (SRFF) 16 March at 7.30pm! This is the second time we have reached the competition stage of SRFF. We were honoured to receive a Special Jury Mention for Transference in 2020. With most of the world in lockdown then, the festival was held on zoom. This year, we’ll be zooming in the old-fashioned way! ✈️
Thank you SRFF for supporting our films and our vision to create a platform for those affected by the themes our films explore to connect and access support. 🙏🏽
https://www.ratedsrfilms.org/2025-program-narrative-features
I’m excited that two of my poems will be published in the Future/Expression issue of The Tentacle, the Peel Street Poets‘ poetry zine, which will launch at the Hong Kong Lit Fest 2025. I’ve been a big fan of Henrik’s work since picking up a copy of his witty debut poetry collection Irreverent Poems for Pretentious People at a Proverse event.
Join me at the Social Room 6 March from 7pm! Don’t let my cat poo put you off! The poets who perform at these events are amazing. Tickets are FREE but you still need to book!
https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/performance-poetry-performances-future-expressions-tickets-1235356768349
My piece suggesting strategies for alleviating the mental health impact of climate change was published a couple of weeks ago! Thanks to editor Jessica Chen. 🙏
Like a champion racehorse that won’t stop running, Transference has surpassed another incredible milestone! It has been viewed over 26 million times on YouTube (it was featured by the Times for having ‘gone viral‘ after chalking up half this amount.) Even though the film is free on YouTube, we can’t wait to see it on the big screen again in a celebration screening at Sanctum Soho and to see where our follow up film To Love A Narcissist takes us in 2025! Happy NY!
