Teenager with a Megaphone

Documentary of the Week | May 26, 2017

The film “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower” shows how the young organizer Joshua Wong rallied fellow students in 2012 to protest Chinese meddling in the school curriculum and how it snowballed into a powerful pro-democracy movement. Filmmaker Joe Piscatella draws upon multiple sources of footage to chronicle how Joshua faced controversies and crackdowns.

— Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen

For more information, click here to visit the film web site. 

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