​BELIFF LONDON FILM FESTIVAL

2018 Winners list. Away ​wins the Best Experimental Film award. 

The sadness of child abuse, abandonment and neglect take shape in Nicole’s Chen powerful experimental short film Away.
Following the story of a woman maltreated in her childhood Chen’s Away embarks the viewer on a delirious visual journey, a rollercoaster of symbols and sensations among her thoughts and emotions.

Auckland’s rising star of Film, Nicole Chen’s new short film to feature in four international Film Festivals already this year.

While Hollywood fashionably postures around the #MeToo movement, New Zealand filmmaker Nicole Chen’s film project lends compelling gravity and reality to the truly vulnerable.

North Shore Film Student is Selected to Attend Overseas Film Festival - ​Sept. 12, 2016

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It’s always exciting when a Kiwi has their work shown on a global scale, but it’s even more impressive when a Kiwi student is given the opportunity to have their work seen outside of New Zealand borders. - Jul. 27, 2016 

WE ARE MOVING STORIES

A stream of consciousness composed of poetic and slow-pace pictures of a foreign girl and the world through her eyes. 

Interview with Writer/Director Nicole Chen -  2016

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The festival, which runs from August 26th – 28th in the UK city, has been launched to support filmmakers “who produce works that are politically subversive and/or unique in form and that challenge the status quo”.

North Shore resident Nicole wrote, produced, directed and acts in Jianjie , which is her first short film, developed as part of her Diploma in Filmmaking at SAE last year.

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