Diego Luna’s MR. PIG and Jessica Dimmock and Christopher LaMarca’s THE PEARL took home the top prizes at the 2016 Dallas International Film Festival awards ceremony.
Hooligan Sparrow
Hooligan Sparrow
NAME OF FILM: HOOLIGAN SPARROW
DIRECTOR(S): Nanfu Wang
GENRE: Documentary Film
SYNOPSIS: Traversing southern China, a group of activists led by Ye Haiyan, a.k.a. Hooligan Sparrow, protest a scandalous incident in which a school principal and a government official allegedly raped six students. Sparrow becomes an enemy of the state, but detentions, interrogations and evictions can’t stop her protest from going viral.
