Sundance Film Festival Asia Returns to Taiwan
Sundance Film Festival Asia has returned to Taiwan. With directors and filmmakers flying in from around the globe, this year's expanded event will give local creatives a chance to shine on the silver screen.
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00:00Sundance's Asia event is about to kick off in Taipei, where the world's largest independent
00:06film festival hopes to find new audiences.
00:10This festival is a place for audiences to discover fresh voices,
00:15entertain the stories, and take part in compelling conversations.
00:21This is the second time Taipei has hosted Sundance. The five-day festival includes
00:27screenings, public panels, and workshops with Taiwanese filmmakers.
00:31Taiwanese-American director Sean Wong will be screening his film
00:35Didi, portraying a coming-of-age story of a Taiwanese teenager in California.
00:41The hope was to kind of contribute something to a genre that I really love that in the
00:46states at least never you know had a kid who looked like me and my friends in these types of movies.