US’s Frameline Film Festival Featuring Taiwan’s Leap in LGBTQ Visibility

The 45^th Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, USA, featured this year’s program with Taiwanese cinema to celebrate the second anniversary for the country to become the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.

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Features on the festival’s streaming platforms required fees, and shorts were for free. (Source from MOC) 

Three Taiwanese features and four shorts were streaming on the fest’s site among over 130 more from June 17 to 27. The festival also held a “Taiwan Focus” panel available on the website through the festival’s final day on June 27.

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The “Taiwan Focus” panel would be in the festival on June 24. (Source from MOC) 

The Ministry of Culture (MOC, 文化部) reminded audience worldwide that in the panel discussion, filmmakers and professionals would shed lights on the diversified development of Taiwanese LGBTQ movies, as well as their recent rise of Netflix and other streaming platforms.