TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Re: Promotional video of Hong Kong-Pinoy Theater Festival 2009
This is to inform you that the Centre for Community Cultural Development (CCCD)
is making a sincere apology to the Anino Shadowplay Collective, Owly Shadow
Puppets and Orange Moon Toys, for the fact that CCCD has used the images of
shadow puppets of the above mentioned artists in a promotional video for the
Hong Kong-Pinoy Theater Festival 2009, which was to promote harmony and mutual
understanding between the Filipino migrants and local Chinese people in Hong
Kong through theatre arts. The video was done for inviting the target audience
to join the shadow puppet workshop, which acted as a platform for the
participants of different nationalities to interact with each other through
cultural activities. However, the Anino Shadowplay Collective, Owly Shadow
Puppets and Orange Moon Toys and their fellow artists, who own the images in the
video, were not well informed, credited or acknowledged.
We understand that the above mentioned artists must have worked hard in
producing the images and would be disappointed when the images of their work
were excerpted, since people may not be able to trace back to the original
artists even they find the videos of shadow puppetry interesting. We truly
respect the originality of the images and we always are thankful to each of the
creators. However this time we know the seeking of permission and proper way of
acknowledgement were missing.
Now we are the most willing to have removed the videos and images which caused
the inconvenience. And In future, we promise to carefully check on each of the
sources that we can find on the internet or by other means, and we will try our
best to find out the creators and seek the consent of them before any kind of
use. We will acknowledge each and everyone who provides materials in assisting
us to promote community cultural development.
Please forgive us for not being sensitive in using the images and videos. We
hope in the near future there would be opportunities for us to meet each other
and collaborate in promoting community cultural development work.
-- Centre for Community Cultural Development, 4 February 2010
Link back to Hong Kong-Pinoy Theater Festival 2009
