About the
Taipei Grand Award and Taipei Image Award
Aimed to encourage the local
film 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: narrative 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.
Each year, there are only 35 to 40 films are selected
from more than 250 submissions for screening. The
directors would appear in the meet-the-artist session
after screening. To look back, many winners of the past
years have made their names in the mainstream Taiwanese
film industry.
“Taipei Image Award” invites the mass to interpret
Taipei the city in a ten-minute short. Among the one
hundred odd entries 6 to10 will be selected. The
competition has provided a springboard for our young
artists to the world cinema.
In addition, the “Global Chinese Film and Videos”
showcases the outstanding works by Chinese independent
filmmakers from all over the world. It is also a meeting
point of domestic filmmaking force and the global market
at large: Formula 17 made its debut in the festival two
years ago, Three Times Asian premiere in last year as
well as the international launch of The Heirloom.
The
highly-anticipated winners of Taipei Grand
Award and Taipei Image Award were announced
yesterday. This year’s Taipei Grand Award
was selected by the 7-member jury, including
Lao Chia-hua, Hu Tai-li, Alan I. Tuan, Chen
Kun-hou, Ann Hui, Dai Jin-hua and Wei Ti,
whereas the Taipei Image Award were chosen
by Lin Jing-jie, Hou chi-jan and Hao Yu-hsiang.
The
ceremony was simple and full of warmth with
many Taiwanese film workers showing their
care and devotion to Taiwanese films by
attending this yearly ceremony in person.
When shooting pictures along with all the
winners, director Ho Wi-ding and
photographer Jake Pollock accidentally broke
their award statues, adding a little
surprise to the ending of the festival.
