ROWBOAT-Genres & Themes-國家電影及視聽文化中心 Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute

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ROWBOAT

Directed : 王希捷 CJ Wang

Opening : 2021-11-19 00:00:00 ~ 2028-12-31 23:55:00

Year : 2014

Color : 彩色

Length : 00:27:54

Production: Taiwan

Introduction

Is love nothing but an illusion mixed with memories and imagination?
Or is it a fantasy that keeps lingering in one's head throughout life?

50 yeas ago, a boy and a girl rowed together on the famous outing site in Taipei: the Green Lake. 50 years after the trip, as the once-invincible old man shares the story with his daughter on that clear summer day, one becomes bewildered by the indescribable connection between the boy and the girl. No one is sure what really happened, except that all the sceneries upstream along the lake remain mesmerizingly appealing.

Director's Profile

Graduated from National Taipei University of the Art with a BA in theater directing and an MA in theater studies, CJ WANG started her directing career on the stage before shifting to the big screen. As a self-taught filmmaker, she is one of the most promising female directors in Taiwan. As a screenwriter and producer, her first short film THIEF (2011) won over a dozen awards in film festivals around the world. The juries from The Golden Bell Award praised her work as "full of ingenuity and modernism in creating characters and plots… CJ Wang is talented and extraordinary." In 2012, her feature film project COFFEE SWEET was nominated for the FOX Chinese Film Development Award in the Hong Kong Asian Film Forum. In her latest short film ROWBOAT (2014) she explored experimental narratives in the telling of a love story.

Participation and award records

★2015 The 37th Golden Harvest Awards & Short Film Festival – Best Narrative short film
★2014 Busan International Film Festival- Wide Angle Short Film Showcase
★2014 Taipei Film Festival- Short Film Competition
★2014 Cannes Film Festival- Short Film Corner