We love a local success story and when success comes early, it’s even more exciting – especially when it’s a young Adelaide star!
Up and coming Adelaide film-maker Henry Thong has already won a swag of awards, from a prestigious ATOM Award to two BUFTA Awards, which are arguably the most prestigious among Australian youth film competitions.
We’ve chatted about him twice in the past. Read our articles here:
Henry’s latest venture has taken him from Melbourne and Sydney all the way to Los Angeles and New York City to interview filmmakers, TV producers and editorial cartoonists about censorship, violence & press freedoms for an exploration of content censorship and its effects on media makers.
Upon hearing of the December 2014 Sony Pictures cyber-attack and the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack in France only one month later (two events where media-makers were forcefully censored by those who disagreed with their opinions), Henry was motivated to produce Content Censored, realising the potential implications such events would have on his future in filmmaking. What he discovered along the way was that forced censorship of content isn’t a new thing.
Collaborating with fellow creatives and long-time friends Wangechi Ngige and sound designer/composer Josh Warry, Henry spent 2015 travelling between cities in Australia and the USA, securing interviews with high profile people like:
- Don Hahn (producer of The Lion King, Beauty & the Beast, Maleficent, Frankenweenie, The Nightmare Before Christmas)
- Isaac Paul (LA-based filmmaker and producer)
- Richard Wilkins (Channel 9 Entertainment Editor)
- Jimmy Stewart (Senior-Post Producer for The Voice Australia)
- Cathy Wilcox (Walkley Award-winning cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Alan Moir (Award-winning cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The New York Times)
The result is the fascinating 13-minute documentary, Content Censored. Watch it above then hook up with Henry on Twitter (@henryzw) and subscribe to his YouTube channel where you can watch his other fiction and non-fiction films. We have no doubts that Henry Thong is a film-maker whose career is worth watching.
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