The Taiwanese American Film Festival (TAFF)

The Taiwanese American Film Festival (TAFF) is back for sophomore year! The Festival is thrilled to bring you a selection of 12 amazing shorts and 2 fantastic features from the Taiwanese American and Taiwanese film-making community.

Last year the festival built from the ground up, and this year it is uniting all underdog communities like its through a homey slice of Taiwanese NIGHT MARKET life. TAFF presents 4 film + industry panel blocks – 吃，喝，玩，樂 (EAT, DRINK, PLAY, FUN) over 1.5 days served up with a d e l i c i o u s variety of night market food and drinks at our darewesay LIT parties.

~~~ Here’s what we have in store ~~~

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OPENING FEATURE
Take Me To The Moon directed by Chunyi Hsieh, starring Jasper Liu and Vivian Sung
Opening Feature – 7pm | $12
Opening Night Party | $5
Feature + Party Bundle | $15

EAT | 吃
Shorts Block #1 – 12:30pm | $12
>> A New York Bagel directed by Mike & Me
>> Sunset Sunrise directed by Bruce Chiu
>> The Great Wall of Vicky Lynn directed by Yu Ying Chien
>> Midnight Carnival directed by Chung Wei Huang
>> Nathan Jung vs. Bruce Lee directed by Timothy Tau
>> June directed by Huay Bing Law
>> One Small Step produced by Shaofu Zhang

DRINK | 喝
Shorts Block #2 – 2:30pm | $12
>> Miss World directed by Georgia Fu
>> Jie Jie directed by Feng-I Fiona Roan
>> Frenchies directed by Punkwho Lin
>> Fundamental directed by Shih-Chieh Chiu
>> Guo Mie directed by Joseph Hsu

PLAY | 玩
Industry Panel – 4:40pm | $12

As a festival, we are committed to building bridges between the Taiwanese community and other minority communities. Given the seismic shift we have experienced with the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, we have chosen to curate a panel of diverse women filmmakers for a discussion about who gets to tell what story and how we can shape a future for everyone.

>> ERIN LI | Taiwanese American writer, director, producer. Former Wall Street-er turned filmmaker. Commissioned to write THE COLONY, a sci-fi short inspired by the 1986 sci-fi drama THE FLY.
>> AURORA GUERRERO | Queer-identified Chicana filmmaker, debut feature MOSQUITA Y MARI screened at Sundance & Melbourne. Tapped to direct Ava Duvernay’s QUEEN SUGAR.
>> JEN MCGOWAN | Vulture’s Women Directors Hollywood Should Be Hiring. Creator of TV series, ANGELICA, the only American project for the MIPTV In Development program at Cannes 2018.
>> TINA MABRY | Producer, writer, director. Directing credits include: Netflix’s DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, ABC’s THE MAYOR, HBO’s INSECURE, STARZ’s POWER and FX’s POSE.
>> JADE PUGA | Writer, actress, filmmaker of Guachichil, Huastec Mexican and Lipan Apache descent. Creator of trending development project on The Black List, a feature historical drama.
>> MARY-LYN CHAMBERS (Moderator) | Award-winning Fijian/New Zealander filmmaker and directing Fellow at both the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program and Film Independent’s Project Involve.

CLOSING FEATURE
For Izzy directed by Alex Chu – 7:30pm | $12

FUN | 樂
Awards Ceremony + Closing Party | $25

Closing Feature + Party Bundle | $30

All Festival Pass | $60

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Lotted and garage parking is available twenty-four hours at 233 S. Main Street. Limited street parking is also available after 6pm.

For more info, please visit www.taff.la. TAFF is a program brought to you by Taiwanese American Professionals of Los Angeles – a 501c non-profit.