International New Talent Competition line-up announced

The International New Talent Competition is Taiwan’s only international film competition of feature films, competing films must be directors’ first or second 35mm feature film. This is the second year of the competition and with this year’s raised award price to NTD 1million for the Grand Prize winner, and NTD 350,000 to Special Jury Prize winner, the competition received 118 submissions worldwide, among which 12 would be competing in the Festival.

As the name suggests, almost half of the competing directors are under 30 years of age. And yet they all possess such masterly skills to display their intense creativity in images as well as in subject matters in their works.

It is worth mentioning that our local new talent Cheng Yu-Chieh is among the twelve competing directors with his debut Do Over starring Tuo Zong-Hua, Ko Yu-Luen, Shu An-An, Mo Tzu-Yi. They all made impressive appearance in the film.

All competing directors would all appear in the Festival and meet the audience after the screenings.

The 8th TFF will be running from 24 June to 9 July 2006. Festival venues are Chungshan Hall, The Metropolitan, in 89 Digital Cinema and Shin Kong Cineplex. Ticket sales start on May 27th, 2006.

International New Talent Competition Nominees