Fu Yue (; born 20 September 1982) is a Taiwanese film director. Fu Yue was born to a

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father and an

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mother. She enrolled at

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within the Department of Radio and Television. In 2008, Fu earned a master's degree from the Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies of the

Tainan National University of the Arts Tainan National University of the Arts (TNNUA; ) is an arts university in Guantian District, Tainan, Taiwan. The campus is in the countryside; beside the campus there is a reservoir. Many international guest professors visit. The architect for ...

. She completed the film ''Mirror!'', in which her parents discussed politics in Taiwan with another couple supportive of the

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, to finish her degree. In 2012, Fu produced the political documentary, ''Dialogue Between Blue & Green''. In 2015, Fu contributed the segment ''A Commander Made By Accident'', which covered activist , to the anthology film ''Sunflower Occupation''. Fu directed the documentary film , about the events of the

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. The film won the

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at the

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. During Fu's acceptance speech, she said "I really hope that one day, our country can be treated as a truly independent entity ... This is my greatest wish as a Taiwanese." Following this reference to the

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, Chinese broadcasts of the award ceremony were censored, and Fu's work was removed from listed award winners on several Chinese film databases. Fu defended her comments in a subsequent post to

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: "You can’t avoid the topic by simply saying, ‘Let politics be politics; let art be art’... As a director, I had to speak up for my work... I didn't make my remarks 'on an impulse,' or 'instigated by the DPP government' as suggested by some Chinese netizens. I said what I had always wanted to say about the film. I am willing to accept whatever consequence brought to my career in the future."

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fu, Yue 1982 births Living people Taiwanese women film directors Taiwanese documentary film directors Taiwanese people of Malaysian descent Taiwanese people of Indonesian descent National Chengchi University alumni Tainan National University of the Arts alumni