A couple of new programs have been established this year as part of the organizer’s efforts to make the festival an international platform to foster and discover new talent. Asia’s View Finder gives promising animation directors from neighboring Asian countries a chance to show off their works, while the Taiwan competition section will screen 34 shorts from 279 entries and give out seven awards with prize money totaling NT$1 million.
“Judging from all the works I’ve seen, I feel that films from the UK are very direct while French animation is exquisitely composed and Finnish works are strong in terms of the visual… . As for the selected local animated works, they are modern and ahistoric, unlike those from countries with long histories. It’s interesting to see what’s going on in the mind of our young adults in these films,” said Chu, adding that the festival’s future goal is to set up an international competition section.
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