NanfuWang

It's time for me to sign off for now. Thanks for all the great questions. I’m heading out to our screening in LA today. If you’re in the city, please come join me at Museum of Tolerance.

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Wang Yu was arrested in July 2015, formally charged with state subversion in February 2016. After extensive global news coverage and appeals from international NGOs calling for her release, Chinese authorities forced Wang Yu to perform a "confession" on national TV. But she has not been seen since and is assumed to be held in a secret prison, without legal representation, and without ever having stood trial.

I haven’t been back to China since the film was released. There’s a risk that the government could retaliate in some way, either by detaining me when I arrive, by harassing me with interrogations, or by preventing me from leaving the country after I return. I will only find out until I try. I feel safe in the US for the time being, but I believe no place will be safe if people do not stand up against injustice.

Ye Haiyan (hooligan sparrow) has been prohibited from traveling since her passport was confiscated by the authority in November 2014. She is frequently "visited" by the police.

The brave human rights lawyer Wang Yu, one of many activists who appear in HOOLIGAN SPARROW, faces a 15 year prison sentence for defending the rights of ordinary Chinese citizens victimized by the state, including schoolchildren who were raped by their principal.

Activists Jia Linmin and Shan Lihua, two of the women who appeared at the Hainan protest in the film are still in prison without trials.

Interesting question. According to the Chinese law, nothing I did was illegal. I have the right to film in public, the right to freedom of expression, yet I was harassed for filming a public protest on the street; I was interrogated for trying to make a documentary. "Could I go to jail for smuggling the footage?" It depends on whom you ask. For me, I shouldn't have to "smuggle" the footage out in the first place. I'm sure they're aware of the film, given that they had questioned me, and contacted my family and the people in the film.