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Fresh Kill
■Content Fresh Kill 1994 │USA│Fiction │Colour│ 80min│English From the beaches of Taiwan's Orchid Island, used as a nuclear waste site in the 1980s, to the shores of New York's Staten Island, Fresh Kill revolves around the detritus of an urban consumer society whilst exploring connections among characters on the edges of corporate capitalism and off-centre in a white, bourgeois, heterosexual world. ■Filmmaker Shu Lea CHEANG As an artist and filmmaker, Shu Lea Cheang has worked with various art mediums and film formats, including installation, performance, net art, public art, video installation, feature length film and mobile web serial. As a net art pioneer, her Brandon (1998-1999) was the first web art commissioned and collected bythe Guggenheim museum in New York. She has been crafting her own film genre of new queer cinema, calling them eco-cybenoia (Fresh Kill, 1994), scifi cyberpunk (I.K U 2000 ), scifi cyphepunk ( FluidØ, 2017). ■ Product Information Release：Taiwan Women's Film Association Content: Fresh Kill Format: DVD
Girl Gets Girl
■Content Girl Gets Girl 2016 ｜Spain｜ Fiction｜ Color ｜88 min ｜English, Spanish Inés, a lesbian lothario, has lived the “American dream” in Miami for nine years. When she is caught cheating on her girlfriend, her world tumbles down. It´s time to get back home to Madrid and seduce Carmen, the hot straight best friend of Mónica Psyco, the woman Inés left nine years ago pregnant on their wedding day. Would she run away again or is it time to settle down? ■Filmmaker Sonia SEBASTIÁN Sonia SEBASTIÁN is an award winning spanish writer and filmmaker. She wrote and directed 16 episodes of the successful Spanish series Girl Seeks Girl and Spanish TV series Todo es posible en el bajo and Parejología 3×2. She is also an established theatrical director and producer in Madrid having created numerous plays with her company Teatro de Cámara Cervantes. ■ Product Information Release：Taiwan Women's Film Association Content: Girl Gets Girl Format: DVD
Too Bitter To Love
■Content Too Bitter To Love 2008｜South Korea｜Fiction｜Color｜22 min｜Korean Mok-Ryun and Byung-Hee, an outsider couple, plans to meet secretly at Byung-Hee’s dormitory. Mok-Ryun cuts class to go and meet Byung-Hee, while they were in the room, an odd atmosphere rises between them, and they have sex meticulously for the first time. When Byung-Hee leaves the room for a moment, the man next door who overhears them threatens Mok-Ryun. “I will tell your mom you are fucking around”. What is Mok-Ryun, going to do? ■Filmmaker Gone JEON Born in 1985, graduated from Film Department at Konkuk University. Too Bitter to Love has won Jury Award at Short Film Competition at Int'l Women's Film Festival, Seoul in 2009. ■ Product Information Distribution: Taiwan Women's Film Association Content: Too Bitter To Love Subtitles: Chinese/English Format: DVD
Turtle And Tears
■Content Turtle And Tears 2011｜Taiwan｜Fiction｜Color｜22 min｜Mandarin The fifteen-year-old Xiao-Yu desires a perfect and happy family, but she actually suffers from domestic violence. One day, her mother disappears. Summer vacation is around the corner. A summer thunderstorm strikes in the afternoon. Xiao-Yu wonders if there is a right and safe way to home. ■Filmmaker CHOU She-Wei CHOU She-Wei studied history in Taiwan and graduated in 1988 from the Film/TV department of New York University. She is a film critic, teacher and independent film maker. Her work include The Queen on the Baton (1999, short doc), One Promise (2000, short doc), Dancing in the Light (2001, short doc), Either or (2002), Songs of My Tribe (2008, short doc), Live for Remembrance (2008, short doc), With or Without You (2008, short). ■ Product Information Distribution: Taiwan Women's Film Association Content: Turtle And Tears Subtitles: Chinese/English Format: DVD
Breasts Also Started As Small Things
■Content Breasts Also Started As Small Things 2004｜France, Belgium｜Documentary｜Color｜29 min｜French Breasts grow, the rules come, the discomfort of the transformed body is there. Boys couldn't yet learn to control their erections, while their voices are another trouble for them. In the hammam or at the beach, girls and boys discuss the cruising and the love. In their head too, hormones jostle everything. Accept your new character, respond to text messages from boys, take the first step ... So many terrifying steps! How a 15-year-old boy understand his desires and grow in a body that is not sure to love? ■Filmmaker Marie Mandy Belgian born director Marie Mandy was born in Leuven in 1961. She grew up in Africa and the United States, and received a Bachelor痴 degree in Roman Philology from the University of Louvain. In 1988 she graduated from the London International Film School, thanks to grants from the Belgian Vocational Foundation and a scholarship from the International Rotary Foundation. She completed her training with Delia Salvi (Actor's Studio), Jiri Menzel and Krzysztof Kieslowski (Directing) and took a certificate from EAVE in 1992. In 1989 she created her own production company in Brussels called Amazone Films, with which she produced and directed "Judith" (short, 1989), "Pardon Cupidon" (feature, 1992), and "Madeleine in Heaven" (documentary, 1999). She has since directed several documentaries and worked for the French Television ARTE and for the Belgian channel RTBF. As a photographer she has worked as a portrait photographer for several magazines, photographing art world and business personalities. She has shown her photographs and her "photo-weavings" in a dozen countries. She produced, from 1994 to 1997, important photo-journalistic work on the situation of disabled people in Europe and on institutionalized children, all the while pursuing her independent work as a photographer. From 1993 to 1995 she was president of the ARPF (Belgian Association of Film Directors-Producers). She has been vice-president of the Belgian committee of the SACD (Author's Guild) since 1996. She currently lives and works in Brussels and Marseilles. ■ Product Information Distribution: Taiwan Women's Film Association Content: Breasts Also Started As Small Things Subtitles: Chinese/English Format: DVD
The Boar King
■Content The Boar King 2014｜Taiwan｜Fiction｜Color｜102 min｜Mandarin Cho loses her husband, Ying, during a massive typhoon that left their village in ruins. The grief-stricken widow is also faced with the prospect of losing the family business, as the Boar Hot Spring – the source of water for the hotel spas in the village – has been buried by a landslide. As her fellow villagers desperately try to sell off their land and move out, they receive invitation cards from the deceased Ying. Is Ying really dead? What secrets is he hiding? Can they find another path and re-establish links with the buried hot spring, the lifeblood of the village? Ying's daughter, Fen, returns to the mountain village for the funeral and encounters a young man, Garmin, on the way. A love story slowly unfolds as he helps her recover from her grief. Together, Cho and Fen try to find the answer to Ying's secrets through the videotapes that he had left behind. The journey leads them to a new path that helps them bid goodbye to the past and find a new direction in life. ■Filmmaker Chen-ti KUO Chen-ti KUO is an award-winning director specializing in documentaries and feature films. She started directing theatrical productions during college at National Taiwan University, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Her interest in the arts led her to pursue a Master of Fine Arts at Temple University in the US, honing her skills in writing and directing for radio, television and film. As a writer, Kuo was thrice the recipient of the government-funded Excellent Screenplay Awards for her works：Bicycle Diary (1997), Red Snow (2002) and Romance Century (2007). Kuo’s background in theatre has imbued her documentaries with a sense of drama, as many critics have noted. Libangbang－Ching Wen is not Home was nominated for best short film at several international festivals, including the New York Expo of Short Film and Video in 2002. Her feature-length documentary, Viva Tonal – the Dance Age, won the Best Documentary award at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival in 2003. In the same way, her feature films reflect the social consciousness that pervades her documentaries. Her first feature film, Step by Step was released in March 2009. Her second and latest feature is The Boar King. She is currently working on the postproduction of her documentary Trapped by the Sea, Lost in Time. ■Product Information Distribution: Taiwan Women's Film Association Content: The Boar King Subtitles: Chinese/English Format: DVD
