Q&A
1.
How would you
introduce this film festival to someone who knows nothing about it?
This
is a film festival held by NTUSA (National Taiwan University Student
Association). Each year the festival
presents a central topic or theme. We
then bring outstanding films from worldwide distributors from various genres into
our movie list, and share with our students who all have (or are developing)
common love and interest in movie art. These
films often inspire wonderful post-film-discussions and everlasting impression
on our student body.
2. What is the goal and mission of the NTUSA?
NTU student body association is a student elected
and operated group with its mission to best serve the student body’s needs and
overall welfare of all students in NTU. We hope to offer movie-viewing opportunities
to our students who are often busy with schoolwork or other school related
functions. Furthermore, we want to focus
on topics that are important in student’s daily dialogue. Through post viewing guided discussions to help
digest the content and ideas, which we hope to have positive effect on students
thinking.
3.
You mentioned that
the theme is YOLO. Why did you choose that theme? What does YOLO mean to you?
I had
been through long discussions with fellow classmates under different culture
settings and student body representatives in NTUSA Culture Department. YOLO (You Only Live Once) is a theme that
easily inspires conversations between students and faculties about everyday
things we are often uncomfortable with.
YOLO also touches the topic of how one must risk safety and step out of
comfort zone in order to change our lives, communities, and world. YOLO is not a topic chosen out of
trendiness. We see teenagers sometime perform
idiotic acts (put up their middle finger and say "YOLO!"); however,
this is not what the image we want to portray.
We believe there is always an opportunity to transform perspective given
meme with intention. Nevertheless, we
are not trying to make this theme seem grand or noble, because no one says that
we have to shoulder the responsibility of philanthropy at such a young
age. However, we only live once. Our goal is to live for the moment - not for
anyone else. For this is our own life
story and experience, that no one cares about our lives more than we do. This is for the future that we want; and definitely
possess control over our future.
4.
We all have core
values, things we hold most dear and manners by which we live. What are your values? How do those values show up in the film
festival?
With
YOLO as our central theme, our festival committee selected five topics to
properly categorize the films we invite to our festival. We have lined up speakers to create dialogues
between each film and the audience.
These dialogues will act as a brainstorm session to bridge between our
festival’s theme, topics and film itself.
Topic 1: Love Under the Rocks
a.
Mission: “The most beautiful sceneries are visible
on the journey homeward bound”. Almost
everyone has a home of some sort. Yet,
not everyone has a home that is safe and trouble free. Over the past decades, we see houses are
being taken down and people being forced out of their homes due to metropolitan
expansion, as well as urbanization of major cities. People’s remembrance of their “home” now only
exist in their memories. We hope to
create discussion on the balance between the rights of homeownership for small
villages and the government/corporation who are taking over the land. Through these discussions, we hope to inspire
our students to care about everyone who live on the land we grew up on.
b.
Committed films:
·
The
Sacrifice
By Andrey Tarkovsky
·
The Land of Hope
By Sion Sono
·
Home
By
Ursula Meier
·
Promised
Land
By Gus Van Sant
Topic 2: Life Symphony – Theme and Variations
a.
Mission: As we journey through life, we are often
challenged by many unforeseen events. We
often overlook and take for granted the most important people and things
surround us. Most of us learn to look
deeper into the meaning of life after we have gone through these traumatic
events. These challenges often bring us
back to the basics – who and what, are the most important in our lives. These crests and troughs create the melodies
and variations of our “Life Symphony”.
We hope to show the beauty of life through this series of films. We ask our students to close their eyes for a
minute after the film, and really think what we can do to appreciate our daily
lives. We want everyone to know one
thing: Life is a gift.
b.
Committed Films:
·
The Sea Inside
By Alejandro Amenabar
·
Dear Doctor
By
Miwa Nishikawa
·
Café
de Flore
By
Jean-Marc Vallee
·
A
Time in Quchi
By Tso-chi Chang
·
Amour
By Michael Haneke
Topic 3: Dream Big
& Dream Bigger
a.
Mission:
We strongly encourage that everyone should have a bucket list. This list shouldn’t be created when one has
limited time left in his/her life. Our
bucket list should be composed now and be acted upon whenever we get a chance. Don’t let our dream to sit aside and be
covered with dust. Our goal in this topic
is to revitalize the deep desire to dream big again, and chase after your dream
no matter how insane or unobtainable it might be. Our life is an one-way-train-ride, with time
only allows us to go forward. However,
it is important we fill our life with the content that WE choose to input and
enter. Remember: You Only Live Once!
b.
Committed
Films:
· Young @ Heart
By Stephen
Walker
·
Tour
de Force
By
Laurant Tuel
·
North
Face
By Philipp Stolzl
·
The
Great Passage
By Yuya Ishii
Topic 4: Let’s Party!
a.
Mission: Our life is leaping forward as we inhale
and exhale subconsciously. It is hard to
fathom and grasp the real concept of time in relationship and in perspective of
our life span. We can only learn how to
truly live for this very moment. Instead
of pondering on things or people we have loss; it is more important we remember
to appreciate everyone and everything we possess in our lives. Let’s celebrate our lives and everything in
our lives by putting on a great party – this party may be in the form on a long
awaited journey, an overdue apologize, or even tell someone how much he/she
means to you. Remember to not have any
regrets. Live for the moment.
b.
Committed films
·
Love Actually
By Richard Curtis
·
Robo-G
By
Yaguchi Shinobu
·
Tropical
Fever
By Yu-hsun Chen
·
Viva
La Librtà
By Roberto Andò
Topic 5: Island Shadow, too
a. Mission: This section of the film echoes our
last year’s theme, “Island Shadow”. We
decided to focus on various documentary films of the Taiwan film history – to
either bring memories of the past, of focus on issues that can still affects
our students daily lives. These
documentaries teach us to care for our homeland and the people we all share
this land with. The documentaries
section of our film festival is co-sponsored by various school clubs who
focuses on various social issues in Taiwan.
There will be post-viewing discussion led by NTU faculties to guide
students deeper into these current and past social issues or stories.
· Our Children
By Xiao-ming Ai
·
飄搖的竹林
By Umin Boya
·
Bread
and Roses
By Ken Loach
·
The
Other Side
By Tsai Tsung-lung
·
A
Breath from the Bottom
By Zhan Jing-lin
·
My
Back Page
By Nobuhiro Yamashita
·
The Right Thing
By Chiang Wei-hua
·
Behind The Miracle
By Tsai
Tsung-lung
5.
We all see visions
-- possibilities, dreams, futures, imaginings, fantasies. What are your visions
for this film festival? What is a possible future as a result of this film
festival?
NTU have created leaders in all fields
of our society. We our goal is to have positive effects on student’s point
of view. We also hope our film festival will help our students to care more on
current social issues. Once our students begin to care, they will then
remember they “only live once”, therefore
they must act now in order to make a difference in our society.
6.
How can others learn
more? Stay connected? Get involved?
Join
our fan page! Below are links of our fan page and blog.
YOLO，這次，一起奮不顧身。
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