🎖 Director Au Cheuk-man's latest documentary, advances stray animal rights
🎖 Chronicling grassroots volunteers' frontline rescue efforts
🎖 Four-year production tracks over 40 stray animals, capturing hundreds of hours of invaluable footage
We traced how Paws Guardian, a civilian organisation in Hong Kong, saved stray animals from 2019 to 2023. It details how those animals were neglected, abused... some were seriously injured, some were feasted on by parasites... some were abandoned because they weren't nice to look at anymore… In 4 years, we filmed over 40 stray dogs, only 4 were finally adopted–a brutal reality!
Director: Au Cheuk Man
 | About the Director Hong Kong director passionate about animal welfare issues. Early film credits include May We Chat (2013) and The Gigolo (2015). Subsequent independent directorial works often focus on social themes: the 2019 drama Paws Men centers on stray dogs to promote animal protection; 2023's Stand Up Story depicted the tender bond between a mildly intellectually disabled single father and his son; 2024's The Manor, starring actors with disabilities, delved deeply into family dynamics, intellectual disability issues, and the complex facets of human nature. | |