Call for Entries: Monsoon Asia Film Festival╱季風亞洲影展徵件
The Monsoon Asia Film Festival (MAFF)
FESTIVAL DESCRIPTION
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Free to submit. Free to screen. Free and open to the public. Screenings take place in different towns and cities across the country!
MISSION OF MAFF
MAFF was founded and established by Hermes Translation Studio and SEA Mi since 2015. Our mission is to promote mutual understanding between locals and non-locals through films, which present and capture intercultural issues. MAFF is financially supported by Department of Youth Affairs in Taoyuan City. Festival will first take place in Taoyuan on 21-22; 28-29, November, 2015. Submission Deadline: 2, October, 2015. The submission fee is FREE. Share your short film with our local audiences! Screenings will take place at official festival venues, including, but not limited to: Taoyuan city. The Festival reserves the right to use images from selected films for Festival marketing purposes. The Festival does not pay screening fees for accepted submissions.
AWARDS & PRIZES
Best short
Best 60sec film
RULES & GUIDELINES
Films must be submitted on DVD or digital file for festival screening. Films must be available for screening during the Film Festival. Submissions in languages other than English must be subtitled in English. Festival is only open for fiction, animation, experimental and documental short films.
2015 THEME
Possible themes include, but not limited to:
Migrant workers in Taiwan
Storytelling of children with foreign parents
Interracial relationship in Taiwan
Transnational culture and identity
Multicultural imaginations in Taiwan
CATEGORY
Short films: Films submitted should not exceed the time limit (30 minutes).
60sec Films: Films submitted should not exceed the time limit (60 seconds; including opening and end credits).
SUBMISSION
Short films: filmfreeway
60 seconds film: by filmfreeway, email, shared link (such as youtube, dropbox), and DVD with one page press kit (synopsis, director’s name, contact information) Please email to [email protected]. Or send regular mail to: No.7, Ln. 44, Yanping Rd., Taoyuan Dist., Taoyuan City 330, Taiwan (R.O.C.).
JURY
The festival has the right to disqualify a winning film for any reasons without explaining the specific reasons to the submitter.
SCREENING FORMAT
DVD and digital files
FESTIVAL DESCRIPTION
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Free to submit. Free to screen. Free and open to the public. Screenings take place in different towns and cities across the country!
MISSION OF MAFF
MAFF was founded and established by Hermes Translation Studio and SEA Mi since 2015. Our mission is to promote mutual understanding between locals and non-locals through films, which present and capture intercultural issues. MAFF is financially supported by Department of Youth Affairs in Taoyuan City. Festival will first take place in Taoyuan on 21-22; 28-29, November, 2015. Submission Deadline: 2, October, 2015. The submission fee is FREE. Share your short film with our local audiences! Screenings will take place at official festival venues, including, but not limited to: Taoyuan city. The Festival reserves the right to use images from selected films for Festival marketing purposes. The Festival does not pay screening fees for accepted submissions.
AWARDS & PRIZES
Best short
Best 60sec film
RULES & GUIDELINES
Films must be submitted on DVD or digital file for festival screening. Films must be available for screening during the Film Festival. Submissions in languages other than English must be subtitled in English. Festival is only open for fiction, animation, experimental and documental short films.
2015 THEME
Possible themes include, but not limited to:
Migrant workers in Taiwan
Storytelling of children with foreign parents
Interracial relationship in Taiwan
Transnational culture and identity
Multicultural imaginations in Taiwan
CATEGORY
Short films: Films submitted should not exceed the time limit (30 minutes).
60sec Films: Films submitted should not exceed the time limit (60 seconds; including opening and end credits).
SUBMISSION
Short films: filmfreeway
60 seconds film: by filmfreeway, email, shared link (such as youtube, dropbox), and DVD with one page press kit (synopsis, director’s name, contact information) Please email to [email protected]. Or send regular mail to: No.7, Ln. 44, Yanping Rd., Taoyuan Dist., Taoyuan City 330, Taiwan (R.O.C.).
JURY
The festival has the right to disqualify a winning film for any reasons without explaining the specific reasons to the submitter.
SCREENING FORMAT
DVD and digital files
International Competition Jurors(listed alphabetically)╱國際競賽評審
Yun An Hsiao
Musician/Songwriter/Singer/Sound Artist
Taiwan Fu Jen Catholic University, Social and Cultural Psychology, MA
Since 2011, Yun An started traveling in Asia.
During the journey, Yun An collected the soundscapes around the cities,
and combined these sound materials with her own composition and arranged them into her music.
Yun An once dreamed of becoming a film director,
finally she found her own way to tell the story by using the sound and music.
From 2012 to 2015, Yun An's “The Project of City Sound” has been proceeding in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, and Indonesia.
Musician/Songwriter/Singer/Sound Artist
Taiwan Fu Jen Catholic University, Social and Cultural Psychology, MA
Since 2011, Yun An started traveling in Asia.
During the journey, Yun An collected the soundscapes around the cities,
and combined these sound materials with her own composition and arranged them into her music.
Yun An once dreamed of becoming a film director,
finally she found her own way to tell the story by using the sound and music.
From 2012 to 2015, Yun An's “The Project of City Sound” has been proceeding in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, and Indonesia.
Karo Sifu
Yuan-yang Wang
Born in Taichung City, Taiwan, he received his M.A. in literature from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He worked as an editor in Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival, and Chiayi City International Art Documentary Film Festival in Taiwan. He has translated the English subtitles of the documentaries into Chinese, including Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, Regarding Susan Sontag, Ed Hardy: Tattoo The World, and The Emperor’s New Clothes. Film reviews have appeared in World Screen, Diaspora and Cultural Boundary, Women Make Waves Film Festival Catalogue, and Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies. He is also one of the founding members of Hermes Translation Studio. His research interests include film translation, literary translation, and theory of documentary.
Born in Taichung City, Taiwan, he received his M.A. in literature from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He worked as an editor in Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival, and Chiayi City International Art Documentary Film Festival in Taiwan. He has translated the English subtitles of the documentaries into Chinese, including Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, Regarding Susan Sontag, Ed Hardy: Tattoo The World, and The Emperor’s New Clothes. Film reviews have appeared in World Screen, Diaspora and Cultural Boundary, Women Make Waves Film Festival Catalogue, and Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies. He is also one of the founding members of Hermes Translation Studio. His research interests include film translation, literary translation, and theory of documentary.
Howard Hao-Chun Yang
He received his B.A. in English at National Central University, and later on studied filmmaking at National Taiwan University of Arts. He has participated in the production of several short and feature films, including Ang Lee’s Life of Pi (2012). His feature-length screenplay has received the Excellent Screenplay Award in 2010, one of the most prestigious screenplay contests in Taiwan.
Besides his experience in filmmaking, he has worked as publications editor, copywriter, translator and international host for various film festivals, including Taipei Film Festival and Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. He has also served as Managing Editor and film critic for Funscreen Weekly, an online media dedicated to Taiwan’s film industry and international art-house cinema.
He now works as International Coordinator for Taiwan Film Institute.
He received his B.A. in English at National Central University, and later on studied filmmaking at National Taiwan University of Arts. He has participated in the production of several short and feature films, including Ang Lee’s Life of Pi (2012). His feature-length screenplay has received the Excellent Screenplay Award in 2010, one of the most prestigious screenplay contests in Taiwan.
Besides his experience in filmmaking, he has worked as publications editor, copywriter, translator and international host for various film festivals, including Taipei Film Festival and Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. He has also served as Managing Editor and film critic for Funscreen Weekly, an online media dedicated to Taiwan’s film industry and international art-house cinema.
He now works as International Coordinator for Taiwan Film Institute.
Festival Staff╱影展工作人員
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