Talks on Creative Journeys Date: 7th August, 2022 Venue: Jao Tsung-I Academy Resource Centre @Camp 2022 Mentor: Fruit Chan (Director) Moderator: Rex Ren (Director) “From the director’s perspective, adaptation means changing what the original author has into one’s own or playing it to the fullest.” In the last sharing of the 2nd year's Eye Catcher
Talks on Creative Journeys Date: 7th August, 2022 Venue: Jao Tsung-I Academy Resource Centre @Camp 2022 Mentor: Natalia Chan (poet and cultural critic) Speaker Natalie Chan spoke on viral Korean dramas of various genres in recent years. She started from screenwriter Jung Sook’s viewpoint and explained how Korean dramas tell their stories. Rom-coms, legal dramas, or
Talks on Creative Journeys Date: 7th August, 2022 Venue: Jao Tsung-I Academy Resource Centre @Camp 2022 Mentor: Jun Li (Post-90s film director and screenwriter) Director and screenwriter Jun Li shared his experience and methods of storytelling and scriptwriting from his Fresh Wave short films such as Liu Yang He (2017) and My World (2018) to
Talks on Creative Journeys Date: 6th August, 2022 Venue: Jao Tsung-I Academy Resource Centre @Camp 2022 Mentor: Step C (Animator), Mo (Founder of the Video Production House "Yamenyamo") Well-experienced animation producers Step Cheung (StepC) and Chan Wai Mo (Mo) met each other during the last epidemic. Their dialog across time was divided into three sections,
The Night of Filmmaking: Chan Hau Chun Date: 5th August, 2022 Venue: Jao Tsung-I Academy Theatre @Camp 2022 Mentor: Chan Hau Chun (Director) Moderator: Jill Li (Documentary Director) Chan Hau Chun is a videographer and independent filmmaker who graduated from the School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong. Her 32+4 was
This city is always full of creativity and imagination. I am not just talking about the COVID-19 strategies proposed by the government. I could never imagine that we are now talking about making movies while all the cinemas are closed. Nor could I imagine that I cannot have my hair cut before this forum because
The world is getting more incredulous by the day, both at home and afar. As Samuel wrote in our program preface, we are living in a period of prolonged pain, and this pain has inspired a lot of the creativity we will see today. I personally find a lot of my solace in the arts,
"Capture your Dream, Inspire the Realm." I have set the question to myself as the slogan of the first Eye Catcher International Pitching Forum. In the past two years, despite boundless creativity, the rampant pandemic was truly an obstacle to media production. During my first feature film production being set aside, we decided to launch
Pain is the origin of evolution and creation. 1 Eye Catcher Incubation, the sibling project of Ear Up Incubation, is a new initiative that endeavours to groom independent producers for entering the creative industry after the Renaissance Foundation’s dedication as the local cultural and creative industry incubator for the past five years. The concept of
土方巽：「當人們將身體與舞蹈聯繫起來，才會真正明白什麼是痛苦折磨：它是我們生命的一部分。無論我們在外面怎樣尋找，不鑽進自己的內在便無法找到。」 2022「跳格」開幕節目「此地此身」以散文電影的形式，讓藝術家陳巧真、張紫茵、莫頌靈及葉奕蕾展開對話，以共同體的形式探索與觀照身體與我們的生存之狀，審視身體記憶在時間洪流中的變化。四位創作者將向觀眾娓娓道來自身對現狀的感知，猶如日記般，拼貼成意識流的影像詩。 四個委約作品由城市當代舞蹈團「跳格2022」和文藝復興基金會「奪目影像」共同委約。 “When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: It is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves.”