前言：很高興拿到了學校的經費，在短片展之外，有機會可以舉辦台灣紀錄片的活動，感謝駐英國台北代表處的協助，取得了播映影片的許可，希望這個活動可以獲得一些迴響，同時也希望能夠就短片和紀錄片做點研究，發表一些東西。
Press Release
DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL: TAIWAN STUDY DAY
09:00–17:30, 14 November 2009 (Saturday)
Seminar Room 108, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds, UK
White Rose East Asia Centre, University of Leeds, is proud to launch the Documentary Festival: Taiwan Study Day, to take place on 14 November 2009 (Saturday), 09:00-17:30, at Seminar Room 108, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds.
Taiwan is an important part of Greater China region. If one wishes to understand and to engage with China more fully, one must not ignore Taiwan. Documentary is one of the highly effective and unique methods to approach the study of Taiwan. The three documentaries chosen for the Festival cover issues concerning Taiwan’s politics, history, identities, cultures and society. They stimulate new perspectives on these issues in an engaging and entertaining way. Hence the event will provide the general public and students alike who have little or no background in Taiwan Studies with an excellent entry point to the subject.
Post-screening Q&As and panel discussions will offer greater depth and context to the Study Day and help the participants to further understand Taiwan.
Programme:
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09:00–09:30 |
Arrival and Coffee |
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09:30–09:40 |
Welcome speech by Professor Victor T. King |
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09:40–10:00 |
Brief introduction to the study subject, Taiwan, and the documentaries chosen by the event organizers, Dr Jieyu Liu and Dr Ming-Yeh Rawnsley |
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10:00–11:30 |
Documentary screening: Grandma’s Hairpin (Yin zhanzi, 85 min, 2000, dir: Xiao Juzhen) |
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11:30–12:00 |
Post-screening discussion (15 min) and Q&A (15 min), ‘Cross Strait Relations’
Speaker: Professor Gary Rawnsley, University of Leeds |
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12:00–13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30–14:20 |
Documentary screening: Coffee in Taiwan: Past and Present (Taiwan cafei de qianshi jinsheng, 48 min, 2007, dir: Guo Zhirong) |
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14:20–14:50 |
Post-screening discussion (15 min) and Q&A (15 min): ‘Japanese Connection’
Speaker: Dr Jeremy Taylor, University of Sheffield |
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14:50–15:10 |
Coffee break |
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15:10–16:15 |
Documentary screening: Bohemians in Taipei: The Life of Theatre (Taibei boximiya, 55 min, 2004, dir: Hong Hong) |
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16:15–16:30 |
Post-screening discussion/Q&A (15 min): ‘Culture and Society’
Speaker: Dr Ruru Li, University of Leeds |
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16:30–17:30 |
Panel discussion and Q&A (Chaired by Dr Jieyu Liu and Dr Ming-Yeh Rawnsley):
Professor Lucia Nagib (World Cinemas, Leeds), Dr David Lee (ICS, Leeds), Dr Felicia Chan (Cosmopolitanism, Manchester) & Mr Gary Needham (Film Studies, Nottingham Trent) |
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17:30 |
Concluding remark by Professor Delia Davin |