Representative Francis Kuo-Hsin Liang graced the opening of the 2018 Singapore Chinese Film Festival to show his support for the event as well as for Taiwan’s film industry. At the opening ceremony, Festival Co-director, Associate Professor Foo Tee Tuan, thanked Representative Liang and the Taipei Representative Office in Singapore for the continued support of the film festival.
Additionally, Representative Liang attended a talk entitled “Eco-Documentaries: A Tribute to Chi Po-Lin”, which was organized by the Festival as a tribute to the legacy of director Chi Po-Lin, and his unfailing spirit and activism for environmental causes. A special screening of late director Chi’s film, “Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above” was played to a full house audience at a 600-seat theater. Representative Liang also attended the screening of Taiwan Director Ke Chin-Yuan’s “Ocean”, one of four ecological documentaries that was featured in a program entitled “Remembering Chi Po-Lin: Filmmaker, Photographer and Environmentalist”.
The 6th edition of the Singapore Chinese Film Festival opened from 27 April to 6 May 2018. The festival opened with “Manfei”, a Taiwan documentary, and showcased close to 60 films, of which 18 are from Taiwan. Jointly organised by the Singapore Film Society and Centre for Chinese Studies, Singapore University of Social Sciences, the film festival showcased the eclectic and very best of Chinese Cinema. Taiwan films such as “On Happiness Road”, “The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful” and “Alifu The Prince/ss” were warmly received at the Festival, and allowed the audience and friends in Singapore to better appreciate the richness of Taiwanese culture and its people.
Representative Francis Liang (third from right) with Singapore Chinese Film Festival’s co-directors, Associate Professor Foo Tee Tuan (second from left), and Mr. David Lee (extreme left) at the opening ceremony.
Representative Francis Liang (fourth from right) with the panel of experts at the talk entitled “Eco-Documentaries: A Tribute to Chi Po-Lin”.
