A Taiwanese official visiting Paris said on Thursday that his film promotion department would try to persuade Taiwan’s Ministry of Education to include movie courses in elementary and junior high school curriculums.
Frank Chen (陳志寬), director of the Government Information Office’s Department of Motion Pictures, said that the initiative would hopefully raise awareness of the importance of film education and foster a greater interest in movies.
“Movie culture requires cultivation at an early age,” Chen said, adding that film classes begin at elementary school level in France.
Chen is currently heading a delegation of Taiwanese theater operators on a visit to France to learn more about the European country’s film industry development, as well as digital projection technology.
He said that the French government’s policy of support for its motion picture industry could serve as a model for Taiwan.
Meanwhile, the visit helped theater operators in Chen’s delegation better understand the French attitude toward culture and re-think their own social responsibilities and the social significance of movie theaters, said Shin Kong Cineplex manager Luo Min-wen (羅敏妏), one of the members of the delegation.
She said that Taiwan’s theater operators only take box office revenue into consideration and do not care about contributing to culture.
Taiwan’s movie theaters are restricted in the selection of films available by distributors, Kuo said, in contrast to France where a wide diversity of movies are shown in cinemas.
Members of the delegation expressed the view that digital projection would become the trend of the future and that an upgrading of facilities in Taiwanese theaters would be needed.
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