The Privacy China project will produce a feature-length documentary focusing on different contexts of privacy in China. The documentary will feature three protagonists: a fan leader or agency manager of celebrities, grappling with privacy concerns while facing exposure under Party-state’s discourse if accused of immoral behaviour; an online platform content creator earning a living by sharing their everyday personal life; and a rural-city migrant monitoring their elderly parents and children at home through self-installed remote cameras.

Documentary filmmaking is used as a form of creative practice research method to produce insights and ways of understanding social phenomena beyond the text. Documentary filmmaking as a creative practice method opens up new avenues of inquiry and produces new ways of seeing and feeling.