Sydney & Canberra Screening
Sydney Screening
Date: Monday, 30 October 2023
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM AEST – light refreshments starting 6PM
Venue: 10HA T1 at Macquarie University
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature in Macquarie University in partnership with the Australian Taiwanese Friendship Association and the Australasian Taiwan Studies Association, is pleased to invite you to a screening of the Taiwanese movie “Untold Herstory” on 30th October at 10HA T1 at Macquarie University.
The film screening will be followed by Q&A with film producer Pasuya Yao.
Additionally, there will be a panel discussion on “Media, Remembering Past, and Cultural Resistance: Taiwan in Focus” from 2:30-3:45 pm. The venue is C120/121, 25 WW. Attendance is free, but we kindly request you to register your attendance at: cmh@mq.edu.au.
For additional details and registration, please visit https://taiwanatmq.weebly.com
Canberra Screening
Date: Tuesday, 31 October 2023
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM AEST – light refreshments 6-6:30 PM
Venue: CIW Auditorium, Fellows Lane
Directed by Zero Chou 周美玲
1h42m | 2022 | PG
Untold Herstory tells a story of three female political prisoners at the concentration camps on Green Island—an islet off the east coast of Taiwan—in the 1950s. The film is an adaptation of Bonfire Island: Untold Herstory by Tsao Chin-jung 曹欽榮, a published collection of interviews with female political prisoners from that time. During that period, under the Republic of China government, political parties—apart from the Chinese Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang—were banned and any discussion of democracy or Taiwanese independence led to arrest and detention. The female political prisoners chose to fight for freedom, but were more forcefully suppressed by the authorities. They held on to their beliefs, hoping for true freedom to come.
Light refreshments at 6pm for 6:30pm start. The film screening will be followed by Q&A with film producer Pasuya Yao.
This event is organised by the ANU Taiwan Studies Program, Taiwanese Association of Canberra, Australia and Australasian Taiwan Studies Association.
