Hu Tai-li President of TIEFF, Research Fellow of Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica As ethnographic film festivals are becoming increasingly popular worldwide, Taiwan has joined this trend with the premier International Ethnographic Film Festival, the first of its kind in Taiwan and Asia. For years I have been bringing self produced ethnographic film documentaries to international ethnographic film festivals…
Rolf Husmann and Jill Daniels Imagine you’re organising a large international conference or festival, which you have worked hard on, investing a lot of time and money; three days before its due to start a typhoon hits your city, knocking out the underground, flooding your conference hall and cutting the electricity off in the hotels where your guests are supposed…
Moana : A Romance of the Golden Age — The Love-Hate Relationship between Robert Flaherty, Hollywood, and Samoa Wang, Yae-Wei Planning Department Manager, Public Television Service Foundation Robert Flaherty’s classic Nanook of the North received enthusiastic reviews and huge box office success at Metropolitan Theater in New York in June 1923, and the film then went on to do very…
Yu, Jane H. C. (film critic) The scope of the 9 films selected for the “Island Odyssey” International Selections program span islands across the globe: New Guinea, Samoa, Sumatra, Madagascar, the Canary Islands, Haiti of Hispaniola, Canada’s Saltspring Island, a Norwegian isle, and the Cape Verde Islands. The material covered is expansive as each film has its own…
Wang Weitsy (lecturer, Department of Mass Communication, Tam Kang University) It is a challenging task involved with a lot of thinking when choosing six films to review true to the spirit of ethnographic documentaries as well as to the main theme – Island Odyssey – from 62 visual ethnographic works. From fieldwork through filming, to post-production, the making of an…