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The Road Runners' Spring
Kong Yiu Wing, Cheung Sin Yi
Release year: 2025
Run time: 98 minutes
Film type: Documentary
Synopsis
Make a living as road runners.
Making friends and getting along for several years
What kind of ‘spring’ do each of us discover?
This story happened between the spring of 2022, the end of the fifth wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong, to the winter of 2024. The director, KONG Yiu Wing, is also a courier, so he tells the story from the perspective of couriers, sharing their working experience, the inspiration from the delivery work and also the personal growth of several couriers.
Director biography
KONG Yiu Wing is a Hongkonger, he graduated from CUHK in 2011 (majoring in fine arts); and graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2019, received a MFA (majoring in multimedia arts). He views creative work as a way to explore and respond to his own identity. His artistic practice is inspired from everyday objects, interviews with local people, while also engaging with government propaganda films, official archives, and public records. He works across project-based art, documentary filmmaking, computer animation, etc. In 2020, He started to work as a courier for a food platform. He made the feature-length documentary The Road Runners’ spring (《馬路跑手之春》) and is currently developing the ongoing archival project ‘Hongkongers’ archive of 100 objects’ (《香港百物檔案館》).
CHEUNG Sin Yi, Selina
After graduating with a degree in linguistics, Selina worked for a labor organization before joining the community arts group ‘v-artivist’ (影行者), collaborating with individuals/groups from diverse grassroots backgrounds to produce short films and other media works. Three years ago, while transitioning into a slash career, she was invited to begin working on the documentary The Road Runners’ spring. During the production of the documentary, she also became a courier. She is now an after-school tutor, clerical worker, courier, interpreter, video producer, tutor/facilitator of arts/creativity workshops/programme.