Hoy Fok and the Island School
Hoy Fok and the Island School
Price:
$495.00
Filmmaker Name:
George Chang, Richard Chen
Film Length:
32 min
Film Year:
1974
Duration:
21-45 min
Decade:
1970s
Series:
China Coast series
Collection:
Faces of Change collection
Secondary Creator:
produced by Norman Miller
Color:
color
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ABOUT
Hoy Fok is a fourteen-year-old boy who lives with his family on a fishing junk near a small island in the Hong Kong Territory. He helps his family in fishing and attends the island school. Education on this small island primarily involves teaching children basic things like simple arithmetic that would help them in selling fish.
The film features interviews with Hoy Fok's teacher, parents and the village headman, all of whom provide their differing viewpoints on his education and his future. His teacher feels that although he joined school too late, he has a natural curiosity and should pursue higher education; however, his parents think that secondary schooling is a waste of money, something they cannot afford.
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