Reporters in Taiwan
Reporters have been likened to ' uncrowned kings, 'but what exactly does their job entail? How do they keep up with a changing society? This documentary records the life of a reporter in detail,...
Chow, Wong, Ah-Hai and His Four Workers
This documentary records the director's experience of fruit farming in Lishan. It showcasees an interesting participatory style, and reveals the daily lives of farmers in Lishan in their natural...
Taiwan Images Under Imperial Japan
Compiling documentary footage from the Chinese Taipei Film Archive, this film consists of nine segments of film of varying length. It shows the lives of ordinary people, from farmers in the fields,...
Taiwan Family Films
The filmmaker Teng Nan-Kuang and the author Liu Na-Ou made this documentary of themselves, their families, and the society of their time. There are nine sections to this film, which show the face of...
Liu, Pi-Chia
Liu Pi- Chia is the result of the film project for his M.A. from the UCLA Film School. The protagonist of the film is a middle-aged retired officer who lives in the Feng-tien Industrial Park in Hua-...
Oil-Coated Umbrella : Meinung
Mei-nung in the 80s was still very much an agricultural town. The pace of life was slow and simple, and the people there were hard-working and frugal. The main industries were tobacco, rice, and oil-...
Wang-Yew Boat Ceremony
The film is about a boat ceremony that took place in Tainan County twenty years ago. Wang-Yew is a god that drives away pestilence, and keeps the peace. Villagers build a boat to guild the god into...
Songs of the Pasta'ay
The Song of the Pasta'ay is an important ritual for the Saisiat people. This film documents the 10-year festival of the Northern Saisiat people that took place in 1986 in Hsinchu County. The film...
Moon Children
When he was just 16,Wu Kuo-Huang, an albino, was mistaken for a ghost on his way to his dormitory from work. The company he worked for forced him to quit, and he couldn't find work elsewhere. Wu Kuo-...