Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

Adios ! Madrid

Catherine WU 2017 Taiwan Documentary color 100min Chinese Blu-ray
Studying dance in Spain was the dream of Lian Ho. However she gave it up to return to Taiwan for a shotgun marriage. Now she is a single mother suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. In between choreography and teaching, she returns yearly to Spain for further training. Even though this doesn't grant her any formal credentials, she continues pursuing her dreams, insisting on using the ethnicity of the Taiwanese people and familiar Taiwanese songs to portray flamenco dance that belongs truly to her people. Having been blessed with love and acceptance from her family, she is able to love others. She holds firmly to her promise to the aboriginal children to teach them dancing every winter and summer vacations with her own finances. She could relate to her father's early turmoil years, driving her to create moving dance dramas that resonate with the audience. Acknowledging her own imperfections and remorseful over her frivolous youth, she fears her daughter, Xian, who shares her passion in dancing, would one day give up her dreams as well. However, having gone through her own willful years, she extends the most possible grace to Xian.

Director

Catherine WU

Born in Taipei in 1971. She graduated from Tainan National University of the Arts in Sound and Image Arts. She is now a mother of two and freelancing as a documentary lm producer.

Director's Statement ▾

Catherine WU

2017年《再會馬德里 》Adios ! Madrid  

2000年《什錦水果香蕉船》Mixed fruit banana split

1999年《日南》 JI-NAN

1998年《開往傈粟的福音車》 Toward Li-Su

1997年《玉米火腿可麗餅》Corn and Ham crepes

Director/吳靜怡

Producer/徐昌志

Cinematographer/吳靜怡、許維昶、葉蔭龍、陳有德、陳伯瑋

Editor/吳靜怡

Sound/楊言禮

Music/劉蓉琪 黃懷哲

吳靜怡 Catherine Wu

catherinewu0628@gmail.com