Taiwan Arts Festival Edinburgh Podcast

Taiwan Arts Festival Edinburgh Podcast

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Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh

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08 October 2022

The curatorial story of Edinburgh Taiwan Film Festival

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Highlights

I think it’s a good idea to make a new generation of Taiwanese filmmakers (ie., Chen Yi-Wen) as a focal point to let people get to know some important figures in the Taiwanese film industry.
用新生代的影人(陳以文）來做一個焦點人物，來推他的作品，我覺得是一個不錯的管道。讓大家認識一些台灣電影圈重要的人物。

The Edinburgh Taiwan Film Festival, which has been running online for two years since 2020 due to the epidemic, is going to screen in Summerhall and Everyman cinemas in mid-October 2022. This episode invites the chief curator of the Taiwan Film Festival, Liu Kuan-Ping (劉官玶), to share with us how the selection of films and the focus on budding filmmakers will allow Edinburgh audiences to see Taiwan from a more diverse perspective. How will she overcome the difficulties she faces when expanding the Taiwanese film market in Scotland, and how will she extend the reach of the Taiwan Film Festival to the Scottish Highlands and Islands?

Transcripts (3 mins preview)

[ Mei ] Hello, friends of the Edinburgh Taiwan Arts Festival. Today is a special interview. We invite the chief curator of the Edinburgh Taiwan Film Festival, Liu Guan-Juan, to chat with us. This is because I feel that this event is a very important driving force in Edinburgh and Scotland. It gives a voice to Taiwanese arts and culture. I hope that our Taiwan Arts Festival podcast listeners will get to know or participate in this event, so we have invited the curator of the Taiwan Film Festival, Kuan-Ping, to talk with us today.

[Kuan-Ping] Hello, I’m Liu Kuan-Ping. I’m very happy to be invited to participate in this podcast today. Our festival started in 2020, the year of the pandemic, the exact year when we were planning the festival.  It’s chaos. We could only make it online. So the first two years are mainly online. The first year is a completely online festival. The good thing about it is that it doesn’t have to be limited geographically [ Mei ] The audiences are from around the globe [Kuan-Ping] That’s right, that’s the good thing about online. However, its drawback is that you don’t have a face-to-face engagement. That kind of communication. Then the second year, the UK gradually began to have a little more open up. We did not only an online festival, but also put a silent film, a concert with a silent film [ Mei ] very interesting!

[ Kuan-Ping ] Yes, we did a concert with a silent film last year. The film that we played was a kind of archive film of Taiwan from the 1930s to the 1940s during the Japanese colonial rule. We did a concert with a musician from Glasgow, who composed the music and played it live. We had a pretty good response last year [Mei] I still not quite understand it. You said it’s a silent film, so you screened it in a concert format? [ Kuan-Ping ] Yes, there was a young electronic musician from Glasgow who wrote the music and then performed it live [ Mei ] It sounds very interesting, and the film was about our Taiwan’s 30s…

Team

  • Guest: Liu Kuan-Ping (the chief curator of the Taiwan Film Festival, Edinburgh)
  • Image provided by the Taiwan Film Festival, Edinburgh
  • Copywriter: Gene
  • Sound: AudioCoffee (from Pixabay)
  • Podcast producer: Mei

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