New York Film Festival to screen 6 Taiwan films

2018/07/27

Six Taiwan films, including an award-winning documentary about a fallen Major League Baseball star, will be shown at the 41st Asian American International Film Festival running July 25 to Aug. 4 in New York.
 
 Taiwan-Canadian director Frank W. Chen’s “Late Life: The Chien-ming Wang Story” has been selected as one of the festival’s centerpiece presentations. Earlier this year, it was the recipient of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival audience award.
 
 The 2018 production chronicles the efforts of Wang, a renowned Taiwan pitcher who once played for the New York Yankees and three other MLB teams, to fight his way back to the top after a series of injuries.
 
 The other five selections from Taiwan fall into the shorts category. 
 
 Hsu Chen-chieh’s family drama “Guo Mie” was a finalist in the 2017 Student Academy Awards; Ying Liang’s “I Have Nothing to Say” touches on Chinese political oppression; while Huang Chung-wei’s “Midnight Carnival” explores coming of age themes.
 
 The other two films are Yang Yung-shiuan’s animation “Stories about Him,” inspired by her grandfather’s life; while “Iphigenia’s Night,” directed by Albert Ventura is a thriller which begins with a car crash and a dead stranger in a mask with a string protruding from his mouth.
 
AAIFF is the first and longest-running festival in the U.S. dedicated to promoting and showcasing independent Asian and Asian-American movies. The annual event is organized by New York-based Asian Cinevision, a nonprofit that works to develop, exhibit, promote and preserve Asian and Asian-American films.

Source: Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=18&post=138658)