Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Awards will not be restricted to
competitors from China's mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan this year,
but will instead welcome Chinese movies from all over the
world.
Wang Qinghua, secretary general of Golden Horse Awards Executive
Committee said on Tuesday that this move follows a developing trend
in film festivals around the world.
In recent years, more than 380 movies were produced in China,
only 20 of which were from Taiwan.
An official from the China Film Group said the depression in the
Taiwan film industry affects the force and recognition of the
Golden Horse Film Awards, and has directly led to the reform.
Yu Dong from Polybona Film Publishing Company suggests that the
three film awards in China - the Golden Rooster Awards, the Hong
Kong Film Awards, and the Golden Horse Awards - should be combined
in order to raise international recognition of the Chinese film
industry.
Chinese director Tian Zhuangzhuang's chess master biography
Wu Qingyuan was originally excluded from the competition
at last year's Golden Horse Awards, since 90 percent?of the
words spoken in the movie are Japanese - preventing it from
qualifying as a "Chinese language movie.”
Wang Qinghua indicated that the Wu Qingyuan incident,
which also brought non-linguistic disputes into play, might have
been the direct trigger for these reforms.
And though positive, he also expressed his concerns: "Though the
loosening of applicants' constraints is an admirable principle, the
details are often difficult to implement."
(CRI.cn March 15, 2007)