Chinatown: Where I Welcome Visitors

Chinatown: Where I Welcome Visitors

Chinatown: Where I Welcome Visitors

Documentary short · 6 min · 2026

Landscape at dusk

Hing is London Chinatown’s history champion and tour guide. Through her reflections, the film explores Chinatown as a lived space, shaped by migration, identity, homesickness and belonging.


The documentary was originally produced for Sony’s 6-Hour Film Challenge, where it was conceived, filmed and edited within a single day. This film had a later re-edit, allowing for a more considered approach to structure, pacing, sound design and colour correction.

Directed by: Lucija Pigl & Mara Vodinelic
Written, Produced & Edited By: Lucija Pigl
Cinematography by: Mara Vodinelic & Lucija Pigl
Archive Footage by: Jon Broadburn
Music by: Max Andre Rademacher / AUDIIO


Contributors: Sau Hing Au ("Hing") and Freya Aitken-Turff (O/C)


Made in collaboration with Chinatown Collective London

© 2026 Lucija Pigl. All rights reserved.