Event organisation contribution:
I have organised and hosted numerous scholarly and public-engagement events, including academic conferences, film premieres, and EDI awareness screenings.
2025: Detroit (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 2017), Black History Month screening (University of Leicester) – screening introduction
2025: Voice: Female Filmmakers and Their Films, film season for the 50th International Women’s Day (University of Leicester – lead curator and programmer
2025: British Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference (hybrid conference) – lead organiser
2025: 80 Years On: Memory and Legacy of World War II in ESEA Popular Culture (hybrid symposium) – lead organiser
2022: Forgotten Popular Culture: Asian Cinema and Film History (online conference) – lead organiser
2022: Hidden Waters (dir. Kiranmayi Indraganti, 2021) UK premiere (Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre, Leicester) – lead organiser and host
2021: Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (dir. Hiroshi Inagaki, 1954), BFI Japan 2021 season, (Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre, Leicester) – screening introduction
2018: The Rape of Recy Taylor (dir. Nancy Buirski, 2017), Black History Month screening (University of Leicester) – organiser and host
2017: Rethinking Film Genre: East Asian Cinema and Beyond (in-person conference) – lead organise
2014: China in Cyberspace: Platform, Content and Governance (in-person research workshop) – lead organiser
2013: East Asian Cafe (University of Hull) – organiser
2012-13: Cinephilia: Exploring the World Cinema, educational film season (University of Hull) – curator and programmer
2012: China Next Door, photo competition (University of Hull) – organiser
2012: Chinese Cultural Week (University of Hull) – organiser
Interviews:
Interviewed by Pasquale Iannone, “Hardboiled“, Edinburgh Film Podcast, episode 77, March 25th, 2026. Available at: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/EFP%2077%3A%20Dr%20Lin%20Feng%20on%20John%20Woos%20Hard%20Boiled/1_cf1jn80f
Interviewed by Andrew Cardno, “Women” and “Hard Boiled”, Hong Kong New Wave Boxset, Shout! Studio (released on 13 January 2025).
Interviewed by Naomi Holwill, “Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain”, “Iron Monkey”, “Tsui Hark” and “Jackie Chan” Hong Kong New Wave Boxset, Shout! Studio (released on 14 February 2023).
Interviewed by Naomi Holwill, “Calamity of Snake” and “Shaw Bros and the history of the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industries”, Unearthed Films (released on 25 April 2022).
Organised the film premiere of the Telugu language film Hidden Waters at the film festival Contemporary India Film Focus and hosted the introduction and post-screening dialogue with Kiranmayi Indraganti (Phoenix Cinema, April 2022).
Interviewed by Diana Matthews, “Online Video Sharing: an Alternative Channel for Film Distribution? Copyright Enforcement, Censorship and Chinese Independent Cinema”. Faculti, March 2021. Available at: https://faculti.net/online-video-sharing-an-alternative-channel-for-film-distribution
“The Development and Planning of Filmic Tourism” [in Chinese] The Paper, co-written with Jiaying Cai, 17 July 2019. Available at: https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_3937887 [Excerpt from a cultural policy report “The Development of Shanghai’s Cultural Industry: Learning from New York’s Urban Culture Experience” co-funded by Shanghai Municipal People’s Government and Shanghai International Studies University]
Interviewed by Bo Leung, “‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Offers New Hope to British Actors”, China Daily, 16 October 2018. Available at: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201810/16/WS5bc5c88aa310eff303282b45.html
Industrial Partnership and Advisory Roles
I have built and developed several local and international partnerships with both academic institutions and industrial partners, including Filming in England and Film Leicester. I have also served as an Advisory Committee member for Leicester’s Global South Network (GSN) and editorial board member at New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film.
Dr Lin Feng 