‘Glory at the End’: Yellow Umbrellas Raised at ‘Selma’ Hong Kong Premiere

HONG KONG—Five days after rapper Common sent a shout-out to the Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrators during an Oscars acceptance speech, Selma opened to a full house in the city.

Civic Party's Ken Tsang (R) and "Grandpa Wong" (L) pose for a picture at the "Selma" premiere in Hong Kong on Feb. 27, 2015. Larry Ong/Epoch Times

HONG KONG—Five days after rapper Common sent a shout-out to the Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrators during an Oscars acceptance speech, Selma opened to a full house in the city.

Amnesty International Hong Kong held a charity premiere of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. biopic at iSquare shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui on Friday night.

A number of prominent protest figures and pan-democrat lawmakers—Occupy Central trio Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man and Reverend Chu Yiu-ming; Hong Kong’s Labor Party chairman Lee Cheuk-yan and Civic Party’s Ken Tsang; 90-year-old “Grandpa Wong”—were in attendance.

"The spirit of the civil rights movement and the song spells out the spirit that we must persist in. In the end, we will have victory, and we will have glory."

— Benny Tai, Occupy Central leader