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Golden Horse Award For Best Documentary Feature
The Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary Feature is presented annually at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Awards. Since 2018, winners have been eligible to submit for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. Winners and nominees ''Note:'' There were no Golden Horse Film Awards held in 1964 or 1974. See also * Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film * Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary Film * BAFTA Award for Best Documentary * César Award for Best Documentary Film * European Film Award for Best Documentary * L'Œil d'or ''L'Œil d'or, le prix du documentaire'' — Cannes (, "The Golden Eye, The Documentary Prize — Cannes") is a documentary film award created in 2015. It is awarded to the best documentary presented in one of the sections of the Cannes Film Festi ... References {{Golden Horse Film Awards Golden Horse Film Awards Documentary film awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the China, People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. It has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its Urbanization by country, highly urbanized population is concentrated. The combined Free area of the Republic of China, territories under ROC control consist of list of islands of Taiwan, 168 islands in total covering . The Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, largest metropolitan area is formed by Taipei (the capital), New Taipei City, and Keelung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated countries. Tai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
56th Golden Horse Awards
The 56th Golden Horse Awards () took place on November 23, 2019 at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honored the best in Chinese-language films of 2018 and 2019. The ceremony was televised by TTV. Winners and nominees In the news Following a boycott by China's national film governing board National Radio and Television Administration due to political tensions between Taiwan and China, films from Mainland China were completely absent from the list of nominees. Hong Kong director Johnnie To, who was announced as the jury president for the 56th Golden Horse Awards in June 2019, resigned his position in late September after Hong Kong film studios were reportedly pressured to withdraw from the awards ceremony; To cited his reason as having "previously signed film production contractual obligations". Following the announcement of the Chinese boycott, some production companies in Hong K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lin Cheng-sheng
Lin Cheng-sheng (; born 31 March 1959) is a Taiwanese film director. His 1997 film '' Sweet Degeneration'' was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. He won the Silver Bear for Best Director for '' Betelnut Beauty'' in 2001. Filmography Director Narratives *1996: '' A Drifting Life'' (春花夢露) *1997: '' Murmur of Youth'' (美麗在唱歌) *1998: '' Sweet Degeneration'' (放浪) *1999: '' March of Happiness'' (天馬茶房) *2001: '' Betelnut Beauty'' (愛你愛我) *2003: '' Robinson's Crusoe'' (魯賓遜漂流記) *2005: ''The Moon Also Rises'' (月光下，我記得) *2013: '' 27°C – Loaf Rock'' (世界第一麥方) *TBA: ''The Future keeps coming and coming: goodbye to the age of solitude (literally translated from 未來一直來一直來之告別孤寂年代; in production)'' Documentaries *2008: ''My Ocean'' (海洋練習曲) *2010: ''Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars'' (一閃一閃亮晶晶) *2015: ''One journey, one mission'' (有任務的� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ann Hui
Ann Hui On-wah, (; born 23 May 1947) is a film director, producer, screenwriter and actress from Hong Kong who is one of the most critically acclaimed filmmakers of the Hong Kong New Wave. She is known for her films about social issues in Hong Kong which include literary adaptations, martial arts, semi-autobiographical works, women's issues, social phenomena, political changes, and thrillers. She served as the president of the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild from 2004 to 2006. Hui has won numerous awards. She won Best Director at the Golden Horse Awards three times (1999, 2011, 2014); Best Film at the Asia Pacific Film Festival; and Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards six times (1983, 1996, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018). Only two films have won a Grand Slam (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress) at the Hong Kong Film Awards; they are '' Summer Snow'' and '' A Simple Life'', both directed by Ann Hui. She was honored for her lifetim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Elegies (film)
''Elegies'' () is a 2023 Hong Kong documentary film directed by Ann Hui. Produced by PicaPica Media and distributed by , the film features interviews with various Hong Kong poets, most notably and , along with footage of the late Xi Xi and Leung Ping-kwan. The film dissects the daily lives of Hong Kong poets and examines their views on poetry, exploring the decline of Hong Kong's poetry culture. Intending to create a documentary about classical Chinese poetry during her early filmmaking career in the 1970s, Ann Hui cited various challenges that hindered her progress. She revisited the project during the COVID-19 pandemic, and began writing the outline and conducting research starting in 2020. Principal photography took place from March to September 2021 in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Taipei, where she interviewed migrated poets Huang and Liu. Post-production lasted several additional months, with input from William Chang, who also handled the colour grading. The film had its world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wang Bing (director)
Wang Bing (; born 1967) is a Chinese director, often referred to as one of the foremost figures in documentary film-making. Wang is the founder of his own production company, Wang Bing Studios, which produces most of his films. His movie on People's Republic of China, Chinese labour camps, ''The Ditch'', was included in the 2010 67th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival as the ''film sorpresa''. Recognition ''Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks'', Wang's 9 hour epic documentary of industrial China, was considered a major success. ''Tie Xi Qu'' went on to win the Grand Prix at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film and was shown for the first time in Spain at the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival. Wang's film ''Fengming, a Chinese Memoir'', premiered at both 2007 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes and 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto in 2007. ''Crude Oil'' premiered at the 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival. Since then, his films became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Youth (Spring)
''Youth (Spring)'' (; ) is a 2023 documentary film directed by Wang Bing. It is an international co-production between China, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The film focuses on a group of young textile workers in the Chinese town of Zhili. It is the first entry in a trilogy of films that follow the same characters over an extended period of time. The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 18 May 2023. It is the first installment in Wang Bing's ''Youth'' trilogy, followed by '' Youth (Hard Times)'' and ''Youth (Homecoming)'' in 2024. Synopsis The film focuses on a group of young textile workers in Zhili, a town in the Wuxing District of Huzhou, located 150 kilometres outside of Shanghai. Every year, young people leave their rural villages and migrate to the manufacturing town. The workers are in their twenties, some in their thirties. They sleep upstairs, in dormitories, because they come fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
60th Golden Horse Awards
The 60th Golden Horse Awards () took place on November 25, 2023, at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei), Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honoured the best in Chinese-language filmography of 2022 and 2023. Nominations were announced on October 3, 2023. ''Stonewalling (film), Stonewalling'' from husband-and-wife duo Ryuji Otsuka and Huang Ji won Best Narrative Feature (along with Best Editing), awhile ''Old Fox (film), Old Fox'' get the most win with 4 awards despite ''Snow in Midsummer (film), Snow in Midsummer'' received most of the nomination (in which, they only won Best Sound Effects). One of the big headline during the award ceremony was Audrey Lin, who became the youngest actress ever to won the Best Leading Actress at the age of 12. The ceremony * Due to changes in the maintenance schedule, the awards ceremony took place once again at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei), Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Blue Island (2022 Film)
''Blue Island'' ( zh, 憂鬱之島, l=Island of Depression, t=憂鬱之島) is a 2022 Hong Kong documentary film directed by Chan Tze-woon. It focuses on the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. The film won the Best International Feature Documentary Award at the 2022 Hot Docs Festival. Content The film blends narrative drama and documentary elements, depicting major political events and representative figures from three different periods in China and Hong Kong’s history. Each segment is a combination of past and present of Hong Kong: one story of historic protestor followed by a recent one. Pursuing Freedom Representative figure: Chan Hak-chi Set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s, the film follows a young couple who risk their lives swimming across the Shenzhen border to escape political turmoil and reach Hong Kong in 1973. Later, it captures an elderly man who, despite heavy rain during a No. 8 typhoon signal, insists on his daily morning swim i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
59th Golden Horse Awards
The 59th Golden Horse Awards () was held on November 19, 2022, at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Organized by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, the awards honored the best in Chinese-language films of 2021 and 2022. Nominations were announced on September 27, 2022. Despite receiving the warning from Chinese authorities, Hong Kong action thriller ''Limbo'' led the nominations with 14, while Taiwanese films ''Incantation'' and '' Coo-Coo 043'' each received 13 nominations. Taiwanese drama ''Coo-Coo 043'' won Best Narrative Feature, while ''Limbo'' was the biggest winner overall with 4 awards, mostly won technical categories, followed by '' The Sunny Side of the Street'' with 3, including Best Leading Actor. Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. The ceremony *Cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing leads the awards executive committee for the first time, taking over the duties of former head Ang Lee. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kiwi Chow
Kiwi Chow Kwun-wai (; born 16 April 1979) is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Career Since his graduation, Kiwi Chow has participated in different processes of film production, including as a continuity supervisor, editor, and assistant director. Since 2005, he has been working as a guest lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2013, his first feature-length film ''A Complicated Story'' had its world premiere at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. His most successful and well-known film ''Ten Years (2015 film), Ten Years'' won the Best Film Award at the 35th Hong Kong Film Awards. He released his third feature-length film ''Beyond the Dream'' in 2020. It was among the top ten highest-grossing films in Hongkong that year. In 2021, Chow's new film ''Revolution of Our Times (Documentary), Revolution of Our Times'', a documentary about the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, was invited to be shown in the "Special Screening" section of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Revolution Of Our Times (Documentary)
''Revolution of Our Times'' () is a 2021 Hong Kong documentary film directed by Kiwi Chow. With interviews and footage of the frontline protest scenes, the film covers the stories of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. The documentary takes its name from a locally well-known political slogan " liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" which has been ruled as illegal by the Hong Kong High Court. The film had its debut in the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in France and is currently banned in mainland China and Hong Kong. Synopsis For many years, Hong Kongers have fought for freedoms and democracy but have yet succeeded. In 2019, a proposed extradition legislation ignited heated debates in Hong Kong and gave birth to wave after wave of protests. The documentary features seven groups of protesters and pieces their tales together into one big story to chronicle the protest movement. Legality Issues The documentary gets its name from the second half of a ubiquitous political slogan o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
