Nepalese Drug Users in Hong Kong
| Dates: | 10 December 2018 |
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| Times: | 18:00 - 20:00 |
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| What is it: | Screening |
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| Organiser: | School of Law |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Post 16 |
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| Speaker: | Lloyd Belcher |
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Over the past decade in Hong Kong, the Nepalese community has been
dealing with a heroin use problem that is disproportionate to its size. There
has been an attempt to quantify the scale of the issue but there is a
gap in a qualitative understanding of this complex situation. This film provides an
insight through the camera lens into the lives of those who belong to this
community and have used heroin. By drawing upon auto ethnography and
how these drug markets operate, Lloyd Belcher visually captures the
dilemma that is having an impact upon engagement with drug treatment.
About Lloyd Belcher:
Lloyd Belcher has a background in drug treatment as a practitioner in Hong
Kong and the United Kingdom before moving into policy and commissioning and
then took the leap into academia. He also developed a
business as a photographer and film maker and draws upon this expertise
and interest to combine an ongoing interest in drug use with visual
methods in this film that contributed to his doctoral research. Lloyd has
taught criminology and sociology at the Open University and the University
of West London in the UK before returning to teach at the University of
Hong Kong. He calls Hong Kong home after living in the city for thirty-seven
years. Lloyd previous work includes a film called ‘Mira’ that told the story of
Mira Rai, a former child soldier with the Maoist rebel army who grew up in a
remote village in Nepal and had a dream to be a world recognised mountain
runner. ‘Mira' tells the story of Mira Rai’s speedy rise in the world of
mountain running and has won a number of awards at adventure and
mountain film festivals around the world.
Speaker
Lloyd Belcher
Organisation: Unversity of Hong Kong
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