Nepalese Drug Users in Hong Kong

About the film

Over the past decade in Hong Kong, the Nepalese community has been dealing with a heroin use problem that is disproportionate to its size. There has been an attempt to quantify the scale of the issue but there is a gap in a qualitative understanding of this complex situation. This film provides a rare insight into the lives of those who belong to this community and have used heroin.

By drawing upon auto ethnography and how these drug markets operate, Lloyd Belcher visually captures the dilemmas they face and the broader issues of engagement with drug treatment and drug policy in Hong Kong. The screening of the film will be followed by a discussion with the film-maker.

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About Lloyd Belcher

Lloyd has a background in drug treatment as a practitioner in Hong Kong and in the United Kingdom before moving into policy and commissioning and then took the leap into academia. He also developed a business as a photographer and film maker and draws upon this expertise to combine an ongoing interest in drug use with visual methods in this film that contributed to his doctoral research at the University of Manchester. Lloyd has taught criminology and sociology at the Open University and the University of West London before returning to teach at the University of Hong Kong. He calls Hong Kong home after living in the city for thirty-seven years. Lloyd's previous work includes a film called ‘Mira’ that told the story of a former child soldier with the Maoist rebel army who grew up in a remote village in Nepal and had a dream to be a world recognised mountain runner.

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