“Beyond Beauty: Taiwan From Above” Launched Brisbane Premiere

        Award winning documentary “Beyond Beauty: Taiwan From Above” launched Brisbane Premiere on 9th July 2014 at Hoyts Cinema in Sunnybank Plaza. The Director of the film Mr. Chi Po-lin and Producer Mrs. Tseng Chiung-Yao both attended the Premiere. Their attendance was broadly welcomed by the government, communities and commercial firms. The red carpet event was organized by World Arts & Multi-Culture Inc. (WAMCI).

    “Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above” (Chinese: 看見台灣) is a 2013 documentary film which documents Taiwan completely in aerial photography, offering a glimpse of Taiwan's natural beauty as well as the effect of human activities and urbanization on our environment.

      After the huge flood in 2009, which has flushed few villages and the natural beauty of Taiwan away, due to the over industrial developments, Chi has decided to abandon his public service career 3 years before his retirement and started to make the film to evoke people’s attention on the serious environmental issues that Taiwan is facing.

     Aerial photographer-turned-filmmaker Chi Po-lin used to work for Taiwan's National Highway Engineering Bureau. From a public servant to a film director, Chi took a big step by taking a house loan from the bank to cover the enormous cost of film making. Chi’s love of the land of Taiwan has also inspired many industrial firms and as such they have sponsored the film by providing funds towards the making of the film. Chi has thanked all these supporters at the media conference in Brisbane.

      The film is directed by aerial photographer Chi Po-Lin and produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien, with narration by Wu Nien-jen. The music is composed by Ricky Ho, with three songs written and performed by Nolay Piho (Lin Ching-tai). The film launched on November 1 2013 at 44 theaters in Taiwan, with Chinese and English subtitles. The film broke the Taiwan box office records for the largest opening weekend and the highest total gross of a locally produced documentary. The film was nominated for Best Documentary and Best Original Film Score at the 50th Golden Horse Awards, winning the best documentary category.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1152855

Vocabularies

1. aerial 天線

2. narration 記敘

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What - A documentary film

Who - Chi Po-Lin, Hou Hsiao-hsien

When - 2009 to 2013

Where - Taiwan

Why - It broke the record

How - The highest total gross of a locally produced documentary