Taiwanese actress Tiffany Hsu (許瑋甯), actor Chris Wu (吳慷仁) and producer Tseng Han-hsien (曾瀚賢) on Saturday won the Asia-Pacific Producers Network’s (APN) best actress, actor and producer awards.
The APN is a network initiated by South Korean film producers in 2006 to promote cooperation among film production industries in the Asia-Pacific region.
This year, about 45 film producers and directors from outside Taiwan, including from Japan, China, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand, joined their counterparts from Taiwan at the APN’s annual meeting in Taoyuan.
Photo: CNA, courtesy of Joint Movies
Each year at the meeting, which is held in rotation among member nations, the network recognizes an actress and actor from the host country to recognize outstanding performances.
This year, a producer was included in the awards.
“It is an honor to be here. Thank you for giving me this award,” said Hsu, who won the best actress award at the Taipei Film Awards last year for her role in the horror film The Tag-Along (紅衣小女孩).
In his acceptance speech, Wu, who won last year’s Golden Bell best actor award for his performance in the TV series A Touch of Green (一把青), said he would continue to make films and “work hard to become an actor known in all of Asia and the world.”
Tseng, founder of Greener Grass Production who produced films such as The Tag-Along and Wake Up 2 (麻醉風暴2), said producers in Taiwan face a difficult environment and he hopes to help others through his own experience.
Tseng said that all of his story ideas come from Taiwan, which he said is facing major changes to its social structure.
“Taiwan enriches us. It is our muse,” he said.
Earlier in the day, forums were held to discuss film coproductions in the Asia-Pacific region and Taiwanese film subsidies.
Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development official Yang Hsiu-yu (楊秀玉) said the government helped overseas filmmakers shoot more than 240 films and TV productions in Taiwan last year.
Taiwan is an ideal place for shooting films because it has diverse landscapes, from mountains and valleys to hills, and they can be reached within a day from Taipei, saving a lot of time for film crews, Yang said.
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the coast of Hualien County in eastern Taiwan at 7pm yesterday, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. The epicenter of the temblor was at sea, about 69.9km south of Hualien County Hall, at a depth of 30.9km, it said. There were no immediate reports of damage resulting from the quake. The earthquake’s intensity, which gauges the actual effect of a temblor, was highest in Taitung County’s Changbin Township (長濱), where it measured 5 on Taiwan’s seven-tier intensity scale. The quake also measured an intensity of 4 in Hualien, Nantou, Chiayi, Yunlin, Changhua and Miaoli counties, as well as
Credit departments of farmers’ and fishers’ associations blocked a total of more than NT$180 million (US$6.01 million) from being lost to scams last year, National Police Agency (NPA) data showed. The Agricultural Finance Agency (AFA) said last week that staff of farmers’ and fishers’ associations’ credit departments are required to implement fraud prevention measures when they serve clients at the counter. They would ask clients about personal financial management activities whenever they suspect there might be a fraud situation, and would immediately report the incident to local authorities, which would send police officers to the site to help, it said. NPA data showed
ENERGY RESILIENCE: Although Alaska is open for investments, Taiwan is sourcing its gas from the Middle East, and the sea routes carry risks, Ho Cheng-hui said US government officials’ high-profile reception of a Taiwanese representative at the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference indicated the emergence of an Indo-Pacific energy resilience alliance, an academic said. Presidential Office Secretary-General Pan Men-an (潘孟安) attended the conference in Alaska on Thursday last week at the invitation of the US government. Pan visited oil and gas facilities with senior US officials, including US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy and US Senator Daniel Sullivan. Pan attending the conference on behalf of President William Lai (賴清德) shows a significant elevation in diplomatic representation,
The Taipei City Reserve Command yesterday initiated its first-ever 14-day recall of some of the city’s civilian service reservists, who are to undergo additional training on top of refresher courses. The command said that it rented sites in Neihu District (內湖), including the Taipei Tennis Center, for the duration of the camp to optimize tactical positioning and accommodate the size of the battalion of reservists. A battalion is made up of four companies of more than 200 reservists each, it said. Aside from shooting drills at a range in New Taipei City’s Linkou District (林口), the remainder of the training would be at
RSS