Author Xiang Fan & Shaghayegh Raoufi

Xiang Fan & Shaghayegh Raoufi

Xiang Fan is Lecturer at King’s College London. She is the author of Contemporary Art Cinema Culture in China (2024), which was nominated for the 2025 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Awards. Her research interests include film festivals, digital distribution and exhibition cultures, women’s cinema, and independent and art cinema in Asia. Shaghayegh Raoufi is an interdisciplinary scholar and film curator working at the intersection of media, literature, and history. As a scholar-practitioner, her work focuses on filmic autobiographical expression and contemporary critical theory. She holds an MA in Film Studies from Kingston University, with a specialization in essay film practices and hybridity in cinema. Her research interests encompass experimental ethnography, nonfiction and moving image archiving and transnational Cinema.

On Resistance: The 15th Open City Documentary Festival

Xiang Fan & Shaghayegh Raoufi

July 2025

Festival Reports

Since its launch in 2014, Open City Documentary Festival – based within University College London’s (UCL) Public Anthropology program – has been dedicated to nurturing non-fiction cinema, supporting the next ge...