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‘Do Not Split’ Director Anders Hammer On Capturing Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Revolt, And China’s Response To Oscar Nod

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For his Oscar-nominated short documentary Do Not Split, director Anders Hammer spent a year in Hong Kong’s streets, capturing the drama and chaos as China cracked down on pro-democracy protests.

The work came with inherent danger.“The risk I was facing was basically being hit by random rubber bullets and teargas canisters flying through the air and also these firebombs that went here and there,” Hammer tells Deadline. “I was also hit by some rubber bullets…I broke my nose.

That was the worst that happened to me, and that hurt, but it wasn’t a big problem.”The Norwegian filmmaker minimizes the potential consequences he faced compared to those for demonstrators.“All the protestors were facing life in prison, and also the risk of really being

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