Seventeen nominees from the Taiwan International Documentary Festival (台灣國際紀錄片雙年展) will be screened at four locations across Taiwan, providing a preview of Taipei's upcoming documentary film festival, which will take place in December.
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The 17 nominees were selected from the festival's 120 films and are the contenders for the Taiwan Prize, which recognizes local documentary-making. The nominees are also eligible to join the festival's international competition.
Biographies, especially of the disadvantaged or bizarre, are as usual the focus of many of the documentaries.
A Departed Banquet looks at the lives of unemployed miners. A Glorious Battle shows a community fighting pollution by toxic waste. And Who Will Listen to Me? portrays a group of "Taiwanese spidermen" -- Aborigines who work on high-rise constructions.
Spring -- The Story of Hsu Chin-yu (
The movies will show at:
Hsinchu: Oct. 4 to Oct. 10, Hsinchu Film Museum, (03) 758-4857
Taichung: Oct. 11 to Oct. 17 at National Taiwan Museum,
(04) 2372-3552, ext. 327
Ilan: Oct. 18 to Oct 24 at Ilan Community College, (03) 931-1749 ext. 21
Kaohsiung: Oct. 26 to Oct 31 at Kaohsiung Film Library,
(07) 331-4990
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