Guang yin de gu shi: Taiwan xin dian ying
This stirring documentary, rich with film clips and interviews, charts the emergence of the New Taiwanese Cinema, that movement beginning in the 1980s that led to a socially engaged, formally inventive and critically acclaimed national cinema. Director Hou Hsiao-hsien's rise to fame is central to this story, and his influence in Taiwan and beyond is cited by auteurs including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jia Zhang-ke, Olivier Assayas, and many others.
Producer: Angelika Wang Ken Yu. Director: Chinlin Hsieh. Cinematography: Olivier Marceny. Editor: Olivier Marceny. DCP, color, in Mandarin, French, English, Thai, Italian and Spanish with English subtitles, 109 min.
