Taiwan Cinema - Yesterday and Today

February 26-28, 2010

The Asian Institute is pleased to offer Toronto-based readers invitations to tickets. Please contact Rhema Kang.  

The schedule is as follows:

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26

6:30 OPENING NIGHT WELCOME

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

"Bentu: Taiwan Cinema's Sentiments and Marketplace" Professor Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh (Department of Cinema-Television and Director , David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University)

GALA SCREENING

Tears (2009) | Directed by Cheng Wen-Tang | 111 min.

9:00 - 12:00 GALA PARTY (Innis Café)

Registration

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27

10:00 - 11:50 SCREENING

Orz Boyz (2008) | Directed by Yang Ya-Che | 110 min.

Registration

1:00 - 3:40 SCREENING

City of Sadness (1989) | Directed by Hou Hsio-Hsien | 160 min.

3:40 - 4:30 LECTURE

"Hou Hsiao-hsien and CITY OF SADNESS as Taiwan's Cultural Ambassadors" Professor James Udden (Film Studies, Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania)

Information

5:00 - 7:00 SYMPOSIUM | Contemporary Taiwan Cinema

Professor Lee Carruthers (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Calgary)

Mr. Shelly Kraicer (Curator, film programmer, and freelance film critic; Beijing based)

Professor Bart Testa (Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto)

Information

8:00 - 9:45 SCREENING

Parking (2008) | Director Chung Mung-Hong | 106 min.

Registration 

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28

2:00 - 4:00 SCREENING

INTRODUCTION

Mr. Colin Geddes (Toronto International Film Festival and Ultra 8 Pictures)

Dark Night (1986) | Director Fred Tan Hong-Cheung | 115 min.

Registration

5:00 - 6:45 SCREENING

INTRODUCTION

Mr. Peter Kuplowsky (Toronto After Dark Film Festival)

Growing Up (1983) | Director Chen Kun-Hou | 100 min.

Registration

Venues: Innis town hall & Innis cafe, 2 sussex avenue

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto Libraries, 120 St. George Street

Tickets can be purchased online at www.utoronto.ca/ai or by phone at (416) 946 - 8996 or at theatre box office 30 minutes before screening.

The Asian Institute is also searching for volunteers. Please see the attached flier for more information. For further information, please visit www.utoronto.ca/ai and the attached fliers.