Director │Andrew LONG
Producer │ HAO Zhi-qiang
This is a story about youth and choice. This documentary observes and follows a group of Ürümqi parkour boys who were young, passionate, and free. It is hoped that, through our project, more would understand Xinjiang and the lives, sentiments, and dilemmas of its youth.
Director │ WANG Yang
This project aims to review the past of the workers and their families of the textile city, while documenting their lives at present. In the meantime, the contrasts between private and public spaces are studied, and questions on the relations between individualism and collectivism are proposed. We do not intend to gossip about the sorrows and pains of the interviewees. Rather, we are only profoundly interested in how they deal with such experiences in life, as well as the “history” of these individuals and their families. Such personal angles, long ignored in China, will be manifested in this project.
Director │ WANG Li-bo
As the longest river in China, the Yangtze River has been traditionally known as the “Golden Waterway,” but flooding along its banks has also been a chronic and daunting challenge. Built on the Yangtze River and billed as the world’s largest hydropower project, the Three Gorges Dam has attracted both scrutiny and controversy ever since its proposal. After decades of research, assessment, and controversies, as well as over 10 years of construction, the Three Gorges Dam has finally become a reality.
Through interviews with experts and high-level participants who objected to the Project, the documentary Three Gorges re-presents the debate, the controversy, the decision-making process, and the relationship between various interest groups behind the Project. The film compares the official feasibility assessment report, prepared prior to the construction, and the issues that arose after the construction (geological disasters, sedimentation problems, environmental pollution, impact on river traffic, ecological damage, forced migration, etc.) by visiting numerous sites along the reservoir. The use of the Construction Fund was also questioned. Ultimatelly, the filmmakers sought to uncover the truth behind the awe-inspiring exterior of the Three Gorges Dam.
Director │ SHEN Xiao-min
Producer │Andrew LONG
Our main character Mr. WANG, 58, an old man who is still mentally living in the MAO era, and that has devoted his life to sculpting Chairman MAO, accidentally fells into the contemporary art market turmoil and becomes a political-pop artist. In order to maintain his activity under new international market rules he has to adapt his style, representing MAO in an eccentric way. Mr. WANG now has a crazy project: sculpting a 100-meter high MAO statue.
Director │ Cecilia HO
Producer │Philip YUNG
Rose who missed the chimes of the church bells during her days in the orphanage. Bin who decided to come off drugs and begin to work in order to send money home. Rong-sheng who successfully became clean desperately seeking his daughter’s understanding. Rose, Bin and Rong-sheng are the protagonists of Left Them Behind, a documentary I made three years ago about drug users. In Left Them Behind, they gave us the detailed accounts of their stories. Three years later, how are they leading their lives? Are they getting closer to their goals? Are they getting closer to their true selves? Dope and Hope (dope referring to drug users) is a sequel to Left Them Behind which serves a witness to the lives of drug users and our concerns and indifference to this issue.
Director │ KUO Chen-ti, KO Neng-yuan
Producer │ Patrick HUANG
The global demand for the world’s tuna won’t be met possible without a group of fishermen from Taiwan. A Fishing Master could earn as much as $2 million for a 3-year fishing trip. This modern The Old Man and The Sea is about a 70-year-old veteran Fishing Master taking his last trip to the Pacific Ocean before retiring. With the threat from the climate change and environmental activists, can his last odyssey succeed? Can his son inherit his 1,500-ton boat?
Director │Jasmine Ching-hui LEE
Producer │ Mickey CHEN
A group of elderly people and foreign migrant workers from Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia live together in a nursing home in Taipei. This film is a portrayal of the relationships between the migrant workers, the elderly residents in the home, their family, the employer and the employment agents. The nursing home is a place where everyone misses his loved ones. Driven by financial needs, the migrant workers come to Taiwan to look after other people’s family. Both the elderly residents and the migrant workers suffer from homesickness. The film also focuses on the migrant workers who are mothers and the price they pay for their dreams and love.
Director │ Vivien Hui-mei CHEN
Producer │ Roger Chi-huan CHUANG
Inky Soul is a self-discovery journey exploring the true meaning of human’s ego. The story line starts from two Taiwan contemporary tattoo artists who devote themselves to create a brand-new aesthetics of tattoo art. Meanwhile, through tracing back to the origins of aboriginal Atayal disappearing traditions, the film intends to collect the missing puzzle of Taiwan tattoo history.
Director │ SHEN Ko-shang, LU Yun-chi
Producer │ HUNG Tin-yi
In Chinese communities, it is common practice taking sets of “memorial wedding photos” prior to marriage. Almost every would-be newlywed does so, and they always spend handsome money on it because marriage is more than important in life. The wedding photography industry, therefore, is surprisingly lucrative. In Taiwan, everyone knows the wedding sector to be thriving. The wedding market generates more than NT$10.5 billion per year in Taiwan, and the one in China is even more lucrative.
Memorial wedding photography shows people’s love and dedication to one another. Based on the concept of happiness, the unique Chinese customs and the most truthful human emotion are noted down in the memorial photos. However, behind the photos, there may be long-lasting true love, embarrassment after divorce, quarrels between lovers, or a heart-breaking past.
Marriage is significant to the Chinese, and memorial wedding photography is unique practice in the world. With this project, we hope to delve into the industry and understand how Chinese people define themselves and happiness.
Director | YEYun
This documentary project plans to interact with two groups of children of same age but of different social and economic backgrounds. These two groups of children will answer 10 questions bestowed by the production team. Through the questions and answers, the camera will show the life of these groups of children. The similarities and differences between them, their life in school, in families, their relationship with parents, their anxieties and dreams.
By tracing the lives of two groups of children, this documentary indeed intends to record the adult’s world, the world which educates and influences upon these children. The fact that these children were born at the turn of the century, has further significance. Their growing up experience indicates two future directions of current Chinese society.
Director │CHANG Ta-chung
Producer │ SHENG Ru-uing
Amid the devastation of typhoon Morakot and the impact of global warming, the documentary looks at the story of an elementary school hidden deep in the mountains of southern Taiwan, and seeks to identify a crisis faced by all humans in the first decade of the 21th century, and how it is responded to. Filming began after the 88 Taiwan Flood subsided, and the focus shifted gradually from the domestic issue of village relocation to a discussion of mutually beneficial co-existence between human and nature. Typhoon and flood have been a constant in the history of Taiwan, but similar disasters can be found all around the globe. It is the lessons of living in harmony with these natural calamities that are most valuable.
Director │TSAI Tsung-lung, Richard HSIAO
Producer │ Relax CHI
While iPhone and HTC smart-phones are making huge profits for Apple and HTC, the news of redundancies, strikes and series of workers’ suicides are heard from the plants which supply Apple and HTC. Are they the sweatshops in the high- technology industry? Or are there complicated stories behind the headlines? This film follows the development of the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in Taiwan and reveals the intriguing process – how the value of the smart-phones which are becoming more and more like people has got higher than the lives of the workers who are becoming more and more like machines and even the consumers who believe they are in control of their choices.
Director │LI Jun-hu
Like thousands of young people in China, Xiao-ju and Miao- miao, two girls from the rural areas, were gravitated to the cities. They didn’t even finish high school, and chose to work in a foot-washing centre because foot-washing does not require any qualification or skills and the money is not bad. This film documents these two Chinese girls from the rural areas who drift from one place to another in order to change their destinies.
Director │ Gary SHIH, HUO Ning
Producer │ Gary SHIH
By the end of 2009, an ancient tomb of the East Han Dynasty was officially identified as the tomb of CAO Cao, a warlord and the penultimate chancellor of the time. It was winter in 2008. In a small village in Anyang, Henan Province, China, where there were neither sewage systems nor street lamps, a group of archaeological workers began excavating a large tomb of the East Han Dynasty. PAN Wei-bin, the leading expert, believed the grave to be the “CAO Cao Tomb” long sought after by archaeologists. It was not until the early winter of 2009 that the gate of the tomb was revealed.The discovery, however, caused great controversies...
Director │Risa MORIMOTO
Producer │ Risa MORIMOTO, Diana LEE
Code Red examines how the Internet is transforming Chinese politics, economics and society as China enters its seventh decade under Communist rule. The film asks how the Chinese people use the Internet to address human rights and social justice and how an autocratic government is reacting to this powerful democratic medium.
Director │ CHEN Fu
Producer │YU Jia-jun, JIN Rui
Burma is one of the poorest countries in the world. The once prevailing drug problem and continuous wars are the major reasons for its poverty. Mei-ching’s hometown Kokang, the so- called mysterious “Golden Triangle,” was notorious as a drug production base and is now a casino city near the border.
Regardless of all disputes there, Burma is a land plagued by the war and poverty is an undeniable fact for the Burmese. The way for the Burmese girls to get out of poverty is to be married to the Chinese. However, in order to achieve this goal, the prices can be high. Mei-ching wants to escape from both poverty and Kokang. She believes that life will be much easier and better in China or Singapore...
Director │ LI Xiao-feng, JIA Kai
This film shows how a poor young man was driven by his father to go through the university entrance examination and to the job market where he happened to work for the controversial Foxconn Group. The underlying interest is to explore if education could really help poor kids escape from poverty and be upgraded to a higher social status in a society where class movement ladder is considered as malfunctioning.
Director │ DU Hai-bin
Producer │ Ben TSIANG
For the masses, Nationalism manifests a strong anti-foreign sentiment. Some made an amalgam of Patriotism and Nationalism with counter-western activities, especially against the US. Some also used Nationalism with commercial gains in mind. Vulgarity, blindness and hypocrisy are the characteristics of modern China’s manifestation of nationalism and patriotism. The blindness is especially obvious among the younger generation.
This documentary will take as its starting point the current activities by some post-90’s generation young people in Pinyao, China, and will build on this with material from other areas and with additional dimensions. With this structure, I want to strive for a discussion of the concept, history, development and meaning of Patriotism; the manifestation and implication of Patriotism in present-day China; ultimately to search for the real repercussions of what this type of patriotism will do to the public mind in our times.
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