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Government subsidy supports Hou Hsiao-hsien project
Taiwan's award-winning director Hou Hsiao-hsien has raised $450,000 in government subsidies for the production of Nie Yinniang, his long-cherished martial arts film about a female assassin.In the Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.) short story that inspired the film, a 10-year-old girl is kidnapped by a Buddhist nun and arduously trained until ...
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Five Golden Horses for Kung Fu Hustle
Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle was the clear winnerat Taiwan's 42nd Golden Horse Award in Keelung, picking up fiveprizes, including Best Feature Film and Best Director. Benny Chan's Divergence was another to enjoymultiple successes with three key awards for acting, photography andediting. Johnnie To's Election, Andrew Lau's Initial D, Hou ...
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Taiwan announces selections for new film and TV event
Taiwan'sGovernment Information Office (GIO) has announced the 21 film and televisionseries selected for the inaugural 2005 Taiwan Film and TV Project Promotion(TFTPP). Theevent runs from 13-14 November in Taipei as part of the newly-announced TaiwanInternational Film & TV Expo (TIFTE).Modelledon the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP), held in South Korea during ...
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Election leads race for Taiwan's Golden Horse
Johnnie To'sElection leads the nominations for this year's Golden Horse awards with11 nods, followed by Stephen Chow's Kung-Fu Hustle with 10 nominationsand Hou Hsiao-hsien's Three Times with nine.All three films have beennominated for best feature and best director along with Tsai Ming-liang's TheWayward Cloud. Feng Xiaogang's A World WithoutThieves was ...
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Asian Film Industry Network launches at Pusan
The Asian Film IndustryNetwork (AFIN) - an initiative that aims to promote Asian film industriesinternationally - was officially launched at the 10th Pusan International FilmFestival this morning (Oct 11).The network's four foundingmembers include the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), UniJapan, the Vietnam MediaCorporation and the Federation of National Film Association of ...
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Golden Horse to kickstart strong Chinese film awards season
While film industries aroundthe globe are busy selecting their foreign-language Oscar entries, the Chinesefilm awards season got underway this week with submissions for Taiwan's GoldenHorse, which claims to be the leading awards ceremony for Chinese-language film.Reflecting what has been arelatively strong year for Chinese cinema, the submissions include severalhigh-profile titles ...
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Olympian bounty for winning Taiwanese film-makers
Taiwan's GovernmentInformation Office (GIO) yesterday announced new financial rewards foraward-winning local directors. Film directors andproducers who win top prizes at Cannes, Venice, Berlin or the Academy Awardscan each receive $310,000, the same bounty paid to taekwondo champions ChenShih-hsin and Chu Mu-yen after winning Taiwan's first-ever gold medals at lastsummer's Olympic ...
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Documentaries shine at Taipei Film Festival
The 7th Taipei Film Festivalconcluded today (July 9) with an awards ceremony weighted towards localdocumentary features.The 15-day event opened on 25June with a new cut of Hou Hsiao-hsien's Three Times, with three linesof dialogue excised from the version that competed at Cannes. The only other Taiwanese narrativefeature to receive its ...
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CMC to adapt 1940s classic Love In A Fallen City
Taiwan's CMC EntertainmentGroup is to adapt Eileen Chang's classic 1940s novella Love In A Fallen City.The $6m production is set to shoot next July from a script by Ang Lee's CrouchingTiger collaborator, Wang Hui-ling.CMC, currently midwaythrough shooting Su Chao-pin's $4.8m supernatural thriller Silk, hassigned Blue Gate Crossing's Yee Chih-yen to ...
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Lau revs up debut First Cuts project in Taiwan
Hong Kong star Andy Lau flewinto Taiwan yesterday with three directors to promote the first production inhis Focus: First Cuts project, six features shot on HD in collaborationwith Star Chinese Movies Network.Lau's company Focus Films will oversee the series' production andinternational sales.Announced at Hong Kong'sFilMart in March, the films bring ...
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Taiwan's CMC unveils big-budget Silk
Taiwan's CMC Entertainment Group has unveiled Silk (Guisi),Taiwan's biggest film since Chen Kuo-fu's Double Vision in 2002. Unlike Vision, whose $7m budget came from Columbia Pictures FilmProduction Asia, Silk is fully financed with local money to the tune of$4.8m. Silk is the second feature of Su Chao-pin, who also scripted ...
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Oscar titles do box-office battle in Taiwan
All five Academy Best Picture nominees went head-to-head atthe Taiwan box office in February to benefit from media buzz during the awardseason. Clint Eastwood may have taken the Oscar home, but Taiwanaudiences are only interested in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. The Howard Hughes biopic is approaching $1min the capital after ...
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...as festival honours Man Without A Head
With Taiwanese film production at a record low, there was some speculation whether this year's Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards would even take place. The success of Hong Kong and Chinese movies at recent Awards has embarrassed the Taiwan government, with tensions further strained over the festival's position on ...
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Infernal Affairs dominates Golden Horse Awards
Hong Kong crime epic Infernal Affairs won the major prizes at this year's Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and the People's Choice Award. Local favourite, Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn, took consolation in Best Taiwanese Film. It's cinematographer, Liao Pen-jung, named the Taiwan ...
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