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2007 Taipei Film Festival tickets go on sale today
COMPETITION:
Nominated for this year's awards in the festival are six documentaries, six experimental films, 12 feature films and seven animated films
STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA
Saturday, May 26, 2007, Page 4
Advance ticket sales for the 2007 Taipei Film Festival are scheduled to begin today for the five venues where a total of 188 Taiwanese and foreign movies will be shown, the organizers said yesterday.
Advance tickets are NT$100 for weekday shows and NT$150 for weekend shows. Both prices represent a 16.7 percent discount compared to tickets bought during the festival, which runs from June 22 to July 9.
The annual film festival, which is organized by the Taipei City Government, is entering its ninth year. It is celebrated as one of the most important international cultural events in the nation, with the movies from more than 40 countries attracting some 100,000 moviegoers each year.
This year, 188 films were submitted for the festival's award competition in four categories. Nominated for the awards are 12 feature films, six documentaries, six experimental films and seven animated films.
prize
The winner of the International New Talent Award and the winner of the Taipei Grand Award will each receive a cash prize of NT$1 million (US$30,000).
The festival each year features one or two cities as a focus for its "city vision." This year, the city in focus is the Copenhagen.
Two Danish films from last year -- Clash of Egos, directed by Tomas Dillum Jensen, and After the Wedding, directed by Susanne Bier -- will be presented as the opening and closing films.
The Most Distant Course, a feature film directed by Taiwanese director Lin Jing-jie (林靖傑), will also be shown at the opening of the festival.
venues
The 188 films will be shown simultaneously at the Taipei Zhongshan Hall, the Metropolitan Hall, the In89 Digital Cinema, the Taipei County Art and Culture Center Auditorium and the Taipei Cinema Park.
Related activities will include an exhibition of posters and film stills from around the world from June 1 to July 9 and an exhibition of selected works from the 2007 Taipei Image Award Submission from June 5 to July 8.
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