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    The Lost Youth: Women and Industrial Work in Taiwan

    Wan-Ching KE 2008 Taiwan Documentary b/w & color 66min Mandarin, Taiwanese Beta
    The Lost Youth: Women and Industrial Work in Taiwan is a documentary based on the history of the 60’s woman-workers of Taiwan. Through interviews with senior woman-workers portrays the change and impact of the exporting processing zone on Taiwan’s economic development and female working rights as well as life stories for the past forty years.
    On Dec. 3, 1966, the first EPZ of Taiwan and of the world was founded at Cienjhen, Kaohsiung. Girls at age 15 or 16 entered the large processing zone where they had never seen. The establishment of the EPZ embarked the age of light industries and it was also the beginning of Taiwan’s woman- workers’ history. They spend their youth working on the production line full of rumbling noises of machines and their efforts created incredibly large volume of exports and production. For the past 40-plus years, they have witnessed the social change and gone through vicissitudes.

    Director

    Wan-Ching KE

    Wan-Ching KE has obtained her MFA degree from the department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University in 2005. She was a reporter before pursuing her career as a lmmaker. She personally is concerned about the issues of labor, woman’s rights, culture, and environmental protection. Currently she is teaching in the Department of Communication Arts at Wenzao Urusline College of Languages.

    Director's Statement ▾

    Wan-Ching KE

    2002 棋 The Game

    2004 費城之冬 Just Old Friends

    2007 廿五淑女─一群年輕女工的故事

    A Story about the 25 Young Ladies

    2008 童年夢 The Land to Live

    2008 她們的故事The Lost Youth: Women and Industrial Work in Taiwan

    Director/柯妧青Wan-Ching KE

    Cinematographer/許慧如Hui-Ju HSU、黃信堯Hsin-Yao HUANG、蔡明忠Ming-Chung TSAI、柯妧青Wan-Ching KE 

    Editor/柯妧青Wan-Ching KE

    Animation/林玲遠Ling-Yuan LIN、蕭雅綺Ya-Chi SHIAO

    Illustration & Art Design/林玲遠Ling-Yuan LIN、蕭雅綺Ya-Chi SHIAO、

    陳秋苓Chiu-Ling CHEN 

    Music/陳長勇Chang-Yung CHEN

    Production Company: 柯妧青Wan-Ching KE wanching411@hotmail.com

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