With Operation Free Lunch, director Lixin Fan (a guest of the festival this year) looks at the impact of social media as a force for good in China.

Lixin's debut feature documentary Last Train Home won the Joris Ivens Award at the 2009 International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, as well as several other awards at festivals around the world. It deals with the world's largest human migration by millions of factory workers every year during the Chinese New Year.

In 2006, Lixin worked on the acclaimed feature documentary Up the Yangtze, about the world's largest hydroelectric project, the Three Gorges Dam. The film played the Sundance Film Festival in 2008, won the Genie award as Canada's top documentary feature, and was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award.

Operation Free Lunch is Lixin's new three-minute documentary for FOCUS FORWARD - Short Films, Big Ideas

It screens before We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists.

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