Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Girls Who Fell in Love with Math

Weitsy WANG Yng-Jaw JIING 2017 Taiwan Documentary color 75min Chinese DCP
The film is about two girls grew up together in the 60s of Taiwan, the story of their dream of pursuing math. Both Alice Zhang and Fan-Chung Graham is the Academician of the Central Academy of Taiwan. The film also stated that gender should not be the restriction of studying math, but that women's unique delicate and quiet qualities may surely the advantage of studying math.

Director

Weitsy WANG

WANG is the associate professor in Dept. Mass Communication in Tamkang University and executive supervisor of Taiwan Women´s Film Association. She has published several works about documentaries.

Yng-Jaw JIING

Weitsy WANG's husband. JIING has been making documentaries together with Weitsy WANG for decades. Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1957, JIING graduated from Department of Chinese Literature at NCCU in 1980 and completed MFA degree at UCLA in 1987.

Weitsy WANG
  • 2015《科技與性別-數學女鬥士徐道寧》Science and Gender – Woman Mathematician Fighter, Hsu, Dao Ning
  • 1997《台灣考古尋根之旅》Explore of Archaeology in Taiwan
  • 1994 用愛彌補紀實報導系列 Documentaries of Make up with love 
  • 1993《陽光百合》Sunshine Lily
  • 1992《台灣童顏》Children Face in Taiwan
  • 1990《雙足立雙天》Two Feet in Two Cultures
  • 1986 英語會話 English Conversation
Yng-Jaw JIING
  • 2015《科技與性別- 數學女鬥士徐道寧》Science and Gender – Woman Mathematician Fighter, Hsu, Dao Ning
  • 2014《銀色夢想家-當我們老在一起》Silver Dreamer – When We're old Together
  • 2008《大台中系列二/筆歌墨舞》Stories of Taichung II - Ink Dance 
  • 2000《作家身影二/推巨石的人-王文興》Writers Figure, The Man Who Pushed the Giant Rock – WANG Wen-Hsing
  • 《作家身影二/龍瑛宗的美麗與哀愁》Writers Figure, Son of Literature: the Beauty and Sorrow of LONG Zong Ying 
  • 1997《九七前後台灣人在香港》Before and after 1997 - Taiwanese in Hong Kong
  • 1997《香港人在台灣》Hong Kong People in Taiwan
  • 1987《抉擇》The Choice

Producer:Weitsy WANG
Cinematographer:JIING Yng-Jaw
Editor:JIING Yng-Jaw、Weitsy WANG
Sound:Weitsy WANG

王慰慈Weitsy WANG 
weitsy@gmail.com