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    Searching for a Small Town Doctor

    CHUNG Jia-Ling 2016 Taiwan Documentary color 90min Chinese blue-ray
    The story happened in Taitung country.
    Due to the medical resources here are not as good as in the city, the doctor Hsu has hard time to build a hospital here. One day, he got Cerebral hemorrhage, Dr. Hsu became a patien. Another main character is Chiu,sho-mei. She was a worker in city when she was young, she came back her hometown cause she was not strong enough. By a chance, Chiu started learning traditional Shaman, which means someone got spiritual power to cure people’s body and mind. But she has no idea how to cure or help her weak and stubborn mother…
    The filmmaker is looking for a doctor, where is the perfect doctor?

    Director

    CHUNG Jia-Ling

    CHUNG Jia-Ling studied film in college. Her college fiction short City of Sleepwalkers was selected in 2010 WMWFF. Meanwhile, she watched documentaries from U.S. in the festival. After graduation, she started learning documentary production and was inspired by the documentary film The beaches of Agnes. She is learning by doing, creating by living, discovering world by camera viewfinder.

    Director's Statement ▾

    CHUNG Jia-Ling

    2010 斷了綫 City of Sleepwalker

    2016 尋找小村醫生 Searching for a Small Town Doctor

    Producer：Chung, Jia-ling
    Written and directed by：Danubak
    Director of Photography：Lin, Show-Tsai、Raymond Chang
    Original Music by：Wugusane
    Editor：Chung, Jia-ling
    Colorist：Chung, Jia-ling
    Actor：Puljaljuyan、Dardres、Yu, Fu-shun、Tseng, Kui-yu、Tjuku

    鍾佳陵 CHUNG Jia-ling
    gialingchung@gmail.com

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