8th Taipei Film Festival to be held from June 24th to July 9th

The 8th Taipei Film Festival (TFF) will be running from 24 June 2006 for two-week, showing around 150 films. This is the fifth year the TFF to tell the tales of two cities and this time of Toronto and Montreal - one country, two linguistic systems.

While yearly retreat to Brokeback Mountain may sound too infrequent, TFF has a selection of other destinations for the gay＆lesbian film audience –from Philippines the 2006 Berlin Teddy Award winner The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros by Auraeus Solito, Innocent by Hong Kong-based Simon Chung and from France Crustacés et coquillages by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau starring Jean-Marc Barr (The Big Blue, Dancer in the Dark) and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Tickets).

As no film festival is complete without presenting awards, filmmakers are invited to submit their works to compete in Taipei Grand Award (accepts local submission only) and International New Talent Competition. The two awards have always been the strongest booster to domestic cinema, particular with this year’s double-million reward to award winners (NTD one million to each winner). Filmmakers should not miss the deadlines for Taipei Grand Award and Taipei Image Award which would be on or before 28 March 2006''; while submissions for International New Talent Competition should reach TFF on or before 10 April 2006.

Details and entry forms of competitions can be found in our homepage www.tiff.org.tw; or please call Taipei Film Festival at 886-2-3322-1623.