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Yang Yang
(Taiwan, 2009)
Not Rated
Director: Yu-Chieh Cheng
Cast: Sandrine Pinna, Bryant Chang, Chien-wei Huang
Time: 112 min.
Language: Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles
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AWARDS for Yang Yang Asian Film Awards 2010
* Nominated, Asian Film Award
Best Actress
Yung-yung Chang
* Nominated, Asian Film Award
Best Cinematographer
Jake Pollock
Golden Horse Film Festival 2009
* Nominated, Golden Horse Award
Best Actress
Yung-yung Chang
* Nominated, Golden Horse Award
Best Supporting Actor
Jian-wei Huang
* Nominated, Golden Horse Award
Best New Performer
Sy-huoy Her
* Nominated, Golden Horse Award
Best Original Film Score
Giong Lim
* Nominated, Golden Horse Award
Best Sound Effects
Du-Che Tu
* Nominated, Golden Horse Award
Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year
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 About the Film
"Yang Yang" is a Taiwan-produced film of 2009 unveiling the story of a French-Taiwanese girl and her quest for identity, love, and belonging.
The film was honored in several international film festivals and received several awards. The Eurasian, Sandrine Pinna, who played the role as Yang Yang, was recognized for her leading role both in the 2009 Asia Pacific Film Festival and the 2009 Taipei Film Festival. "Yang Yang" was also nominated for six awards in the Golden Horse Awards, the uppermost film awards in Taiwan. In addition, "Yang Yang" held its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on Feb. 8, 2009 in the Panorama program, and has impressed both the film critics and general public.
It is surely worthwhile to spend the night viewing this highly recommended feature film, and we very much appreciate TECO providing us with this opportunity to participate in the 100th Anniversary Celebration honoring the establishment of the Republic of China (Taiwan). So please come and enjoy with us "Yang Yang" on December 7, 2011 at Studio Movie Grill CityCentre.
About the Filmmaker
"When I was little, there was a movie theater under our home. I saw lots of movies," Cheng told the Taipei Times, adding, "my after-school entertainment was to watch rentals at home."
In college, Cheng began to approach filmmaking as a possible career. "When I first watched films by Jim Jarmush, Wim Wenders, and Krzysztof Kieslowski, I was like, 'Wow, they are so cool.'" Cheng began experimenting with video recording and wrote the script of "Baby Face." He failed to secure government funds to shoot his script, but that didn't deter him; he took matters into his own hands, and submitted an advertisement to the Taipei Film Archives recruiting actors and a crew to shoot a short movie.
That was when veteran director and cinematographer Yeh Si-guang came to Cheng's aid. Aware that Cheng lacked the knowledge and experience to make the film successfully, Yeh volunteered to guide him through the production process from start to finish. "That's how things work in this business. When a person says that he or she has a new project to make, everybody will help the person and boost his or her confidence. The people who choose to stay in the industry are truly passionate about cinema, and we always try our best to help each other," Cheng said.
After "Baby Face," Cheng set out to make the 16mm, 30-minute film "Summer Dream," which won the best short film award at the Golden Horse Festival and the best feature film award at the TFF. The film's plot involves a college student who meets a Canadian girl during the summer at his grandmother's grocery store. In narrating the story, the film also addresses issues of cultural identity, particularly among youth, that swing between eastern and western cultures, and between modernity and tradition. Identity seems to be a recurrent motif in Cheng's works.
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