Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Tsai Ruei-yue: the Dance Pioneer in Taiwan

CHEN Lih-Kuei 2004 Taiwan documentary color 56min Mandarin
Tsai Ruei-Yue was born in 1921. She displayed her dancing talent at a young age, and took dancing lessons in Tokyo at 16. She is the first Chinese to do folk dancing with tiptoes in Japan. According to the history of Taiwanese choreography, Ms Tsai developed the creative environment, resources and concept of modern dance, ballet, folk dance and theatrical performances. There are over five hundred documented work of hers left behind. As a doyen of the dancing world in Taiwan, Tsai Ruei-Yue's life could be the source of material in the Taiwanese choreography history.

Director

CHEN Lih-Kuei

Lihkuei Chen has been a documentary filmmaker and an activist of social movements in Taiwan since 1989. Her first short film《Happy Birthday, Caddy》 won 1990 Golden Harvest Award. In 2009, she was granted Cheng Fu-Tien Award for Cultural Achievements; in 2010, invited by Taiwanese American Association to present《Red Caution》in America; in 2012, invited by University of Tubingen , Germany as the theme director to present works in Taiwan Documentary Festival. in 2013, Nagoya University, Aichi University, Hitosubashi University in Japan gave a joint invitation to show《Moonlight in the Dark night》.

CHEN Lih-Kuei

2015《革命進行式》Su Beng, the Revolutionist
​2011《好國好民》Dear Taiwan
2010《龜毛之必要──懷念政治家陳定南》The Need to Be Nitpicky—In Memory of Chen Ding Nan
2010《抉擇》
2009《吹泡泡──台灣經濟真相》Blows the Froth: The Truth of Taiwan Economy
2009《焚──鄭南榕 20 週年紀錄》Immolation
2008《紅色戒嚴──陳雲林事件紀實》民視 三立電視台
2008《火線任務──台灣政治犯救援錄》紀錄片雙年展及 31 屆金穗獎
2008《捍衛台灣鄉土紀事》宜蘭綠色影展
2007《後生行腳──青春共下行》客家電視台
2006《台灣民主化之路》台灣電視公司
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2006《打拼-台灣人民的歷史-烈日殖民》公共電視
2004《暗暝 e 月光-台灣舞蹈的先驅蔡瑞月》公共電視, 女性影展
2002《青春祭-綠洲山莊的故事》人權影展
2002《生命之歌-坪頂古圳生態筆記》
2001《文學過家-李昂之婚禮》公共電視
2000《叫我第一名-台灣盲友攀登富士山》
2000《平等思想起》
1999《作家身影-鐵血詩人吳濁流》公共電視
1999《世紀女性-台灣第一女醫師蔡阿信》 公共電視
1996《女超人的滋味》
1994《牽手何時出頭天》 女性影展 地方誌影展