week2(下1)-Beyond Beauty: Taiwan From Above

“Beyond Beauty: Taiwan From Above” Launched Brisbane Premiere

By ShanJuLin  |  Posted July 15, 2014  |  Brisbane, Australia

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.

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 theatres 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

Structure of the Lead：

WHO-  Mr. Chi Po-lin

WHEN-2013

WHAT-“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

WHY- due to the over industrial developments, Chi has decided to start to make the film to evoke people’s attention on the serious environmental issues that Taiwan is facing.

HOW-not given

Keywords：

1.documentary：記錄

2. red carpet ：紅地毯
3.aerial ：天線

4.photography：攝影

5.glimpse ：一瞥

6. urbanization ：城市化
7. service：服務

8. narration：記敘文
9. compose：撰寫

10. category：類別