I Am in a Hand Puppet Troupe
我會演布袋戲
“Chiao Wan Jan”, the children hand puppet troupe established in 1988, is sited at Ping-Deng Elementary School, a mini school just has one hundred more students, located on Yang-Ming Mount., Taipei. Tu- Deng Yueh-Sheng is a Tibetan girl who spent three years to practice and overcome language barrier, now she is on stage to be a female hand puppet performer. She and her puppets become good friends and travel around Taiwan to perform. No matter she is the leading character of the troupe or not, Yueh-Sheng says: “It’s wounderful to learn how to perform hand puppets”. There are so many interesting and amusing circumstances in this film.
Directors
Li Hsiu-mei
Master of Journalism Department, Cheng-Chih University. 1988 Editor, reporter of children printed media; 1991 Assistant researcher of TV Literacy Center, Cheng-Chih University; 1995 TV program producing for children; 2003 Producer and director of the Children Media Workshop.