About Us
Synopsis
The Normal Exceptional -- A soul-searching journey looking into Autism via the eyes of new realism as a salute to love and care.
An epic of this era of cultural conformity? It gossips: All highly functional students who are autistic are more beautiful than we all. Intrigued, teachers from universities and others are walking into the life of them for seven whole years.
Really a taste of melancholy reconciling surprises and surprises does exceed the expectations of everyone. In its end, many teachers are willing to dedicate their life without hesitation. However, the cold reality is in the other way round, and all kids are badly treated merely because of the difference. Never tolerated. A drunk sadness overwhelms everyone.
Gone is the melody of seven years! With each frame pictures the soul search dive vividly, this journey immerses itself with tear and laugh.
Social Impact
Oscar awards winner, Clint Eastwood, is always labelled as an iconic figure of social impact in film industry for centuries. Rationalization of this perception is Clint Eastwood's whole life dedication to positivism of living. This negligence of social impact in film industry of this part of the world crafts the nourishment of this genre of documentary. Catering for the poor and the under-privileged which Hong Kong seldom addressed. Motif of this sentimental exploration is simply to treasure the value of those who are usually neglected and unfortunately designated to eternal return of the same.
Team of Volunteers
Mark SIU
Producer/Creator/Director
Mr. YIM, Chun Pang (Pang Sir)
Executive Producer/Host
Mr. Franco CHEUNG
Line Producer/Music Director
Ms. WONG, Yuen Ling (Zet)
Post-Production Supervisor
Ms. Angel CHAN
Philanthropy Secretary
Philanthropy Executive Committee
Members
William Siu
Angel Chan
V Leung
Special Acknowledgment
Professor SIN, Kuen Fung Kenneth
Professor, Department of Special Education and Counselling;
Director, Centre for Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education
Professor Kenneth Sin was conferred with Professor (Practice) title in 2013, for recognising his leadership and excellence in special needs and inclusive practices over the years. His expertise and research lie in the area of emotional disorders, learning difficulties, autism, assistive technology in special needs and professional development in inclusion. He has great consultancy experience in many local research projects as well as the training work for teachers teaching children with disabilities in Mainland China and Macau. He also successfully got a number of research projects and commissioned programs in the areas of special needs and inclusion.
Professor Sin once led a project valued 51 million Hong Kong Dollars for three years funded by the Education Bureau. It aims at advancing the inclusion by organising a wide range of professional development programs at different levels for Hong Kong teachers. He also takes part in many community activities, in relation to special needs and inclusion. He was invited to be the school council members of some special schools, members in some task groups for giftedness, inclusion, special needs and child welfare in Education Bureau, Curriculum Development Institute, Hong Kong Examination Assessment and Authority and Social Welfare Department. He is also appointed as the executive members, committee members or chairs in many NGOs for serving kids with special educational needs, persons with visual impairment, hearing impairment, intellectual disabilities, autism and behavioral difficulties. He is the vice chairman of the Hong Kong Special Education Society.
Professor ALLEN, Richard William
Dean, Chair Professor of School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
Richard Allen’s research interests as a scholar began in the areas of film theory and the philosophy of film. His first book, Projecting Illusion (Cambridge University Press, 1997), articulated a sophisticated version of the illusion theory of representation as a basis for defending a psychoanalytic conception of spectatorship. In addition, he edited, with Murray Smith, one of the first anthologies of analytic film theory, in the philosophical sense of "analytic," entitled Film Theory and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1999). Without relinquishing a belief in the value of conceptual clarity within humanistic inquiry, his work has moved towards a revised conception of theory that is manifest in Wittgenstein, Theory, and the Arts (Routledge, 2001), co-edited with Malcolm Turvey.
Allen’s research has focused mostly upon film poetics and aesthetics. He is internationally renowned as a scholar of Alfred Hitchcock. He organized the Hitchcock Centennial Conference in 1999 that co-incided with the publication of Hitchcock: Centennial Essays (BFI, 1999), and he has edited two other anthologies on Hitchcock. In addition to writing 15 scholarly articles on Hitchcock, he is the author of Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony (Columbia University Press, 2007) that examines the relationship between sexuality and style in Hitchcock’s work. Since 2001 he has edited, with Sid Gottlieb, the Hitchcock Annual (Columbia University Press).
More recently, Allen has been working on Hindi cinema, commonly known as Bollywood. He collaborated with Ira Bhaskar (Jawarharlal Nehru University) on curating a film festival in Abu Dhabi and New York -- Muslim Cultures of Bombay Cinema--and writing an accompanying book Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema (Tulika, 2009). Allen is currently completing a manuscript entitled Bollywood Poetics. Growing out of this work, his newest research is about the relationship between Affective Piety and Melodrama. His article, “The Passion of Christ and the Melodramatic Imagination,” is forthcoming in Melodrama Unbound, edited by Gledhill and Williams.
