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(a) "New York filmmaker Nanfu Wang 王男袱 [a woman] * * * The director has been under constant surveillance since she returned to the country of her birth to film the human rights campaigner known as Hooligan Sparrow 流氓燕 [real name: 叶海燕], who has been highlighting sexual violence against children. * * * [a documentary that] Wang shot and smuggled out in the summer of 2013. Edited into 'Hooligan Sparrow 流氓燕,' a feature-length documentary that comes across more as 'found footage' thriller than political reportage, it is expected to shock audiences when it hits US theaters in July. * * * Wang — who grew up in a remote farming village in southeastern China and moved to the United States as an adult — decided to return when she heard of Sparrow, a divorcee and single mother whose real name is Ye Haiyan 叶海燕. Now 41, Ye * * *"
found footage (film technique) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_footage_(film_technique)
(b) "Ye was supported at the time by lawyer Wang Yu 王宇, one of China's few human rights specialists who has since been detained for nearly a year without trial.
(c) "Days after Ye's Hainan protest, 11 people stormed into her home in Bobai, Guangxi province 广西壮族自治区玉林市 博白县, and began to beat her"