11 May 2006

 

8th Taipei Grand Award& Taipei Image Award Nominees Announced

Aimed to encourage the local motion picture production, the Taipei Film Festival has since its beginning established two national awards “Taipei Grand Award” and “Taipei Image Award.”

The Taipei Grand Award accepts all formats and lengths of the following four categories of: feature films, documentary, experimental films and animation. The Taipei Grand Award is reputed to be the most important arena for Taiwanese filmmakers, attracting the most vigor and creative Taiwanese films to the Film Festival. This year we received 180 submissions and the 27 films will compete for the Grand Prize.

 

2006 TAIPEI FILM FESTIVAL
Taipei Grand Award

Nominations for Best Narrative Film

English Title

Director

Respire

Ho Wi-ding

The Pain of Others

Tom Shu-yu Lin

Blue Cha Cha

Cheng Wen-tang

Do Over

 Cheng Yu-chieh

In the Day to Come

Leste Chen

Désincarnation

Lin Chih-ju

Chocolate Rap

Chi Y. Lee

Sixteen Shots About Mr. C

Wang Yun-lin

 

Nominations for Best Documentary

English Title

Director

SHONENKO:The Untold Stories of Taiwanese Child Laborers in WWII

Kuo Liang-yin

Doctor

Chung Mong-hong

Beyond Heaven & Earth

Ke Chin-yuan

Elephant Boy and Machine Girl

Lin Yu-hsien

English Teacher, Kua Ki-hua and His Wife, Tsai Ah-li

Ben Chen

An Encounter with Chungliao

Huang Shu-mei

 

Nominations for Best Experimental Film

English Title

Director

Taipei 4-way

C. Jay Shih
Lu Hsian-fu
Wang Chun-hsiung
Wu Chun-hui

The Only Letter I’ve Ever Written

Chou Tung-yen

One Less American

Tzou Nien-tsu

Skin, Grass and Fur

Gung Yu-ling

SFX

Wang Ta-wei


 

Nominations for Best Animation

English Title

Director

Rainbow in My Eyes

Chen Kuo-chieh

Meat Days

Hsieh Wen-ming

In Search of the Puppeteer

Chang Chih-ming

Aperture

Maxine Hu

Contagion

Shaun Su

The Drawer of Memory

Chi Po-chou

Working Mouse

Li Chia-ying

Take It Easy MV

Li Zhi-hao

Taipei Image Award
 

Nominations

English Title

Director

Alice in Dream

Huang Fei-lin

The City of Ants

Chang Ing-ming

The Fourth Floor

Niu Chun-chiang

The Invader

Jiang Jin-lin

Mother

Kao Shin-wen

fin,

Kuo Tzu-lung

Taipei, Taipei

Tsai Mu-ming

In the Dream

Yo Jhi-hang