Chen took two months to re-familiarize herself with the material and another six months to re-edit the film and give it a more coherent structure. The result was a film that won the Tagesspiegel Readers' Prize at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival's Forum for New Cinema.
As for her next feature film, this humble director believes it won't take another eight years. She no longer doubts herself and she now knows that directors can't take all of the blame for the Taiwanese film industry's slump.
As to what Chen's next movie will be about, a clue may lie in a documentary about buto dancers she has been working on.
"Making documentaries for me is like a thought process. It gives me opportunities to ask questions," she says. "These will eventually become the sources for my feature films."
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