Rina Tsou(鄒隆娜) is a Taiwanese and Filipino filmmaker who studied at the National Taiwan University of Arts. Her works include Chicharon, The Horrible Thirty: Me, My father and Richard and the Tiger, and Arnie, etc. Her film Chicharon won a Golden Harvest Award for Outstanding Short Films in 2014. And the short film Arnie (阿尼) was highlighted by the International Critics' Week at Cannes.
According to the Ministry of Culture, Tsou's mixed heritage and personal experience motivated her to deepen mutual understanding between Taiwan and the Philippines through films.
Born to a Taiwanese father and Filipino mother, Tsou spent her early childhood in Manila and moved back to Taipei when she was ten. As a second-generation new immigrant in Taiwan, Tsou experienced a sense of alienation due to language barriers and got to observe the dynamics between East and Southeast Asia in Taiwan society from a cross-cultural perspective.
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Through film, Tsou aspires to examine the diversity of cultures that come to play in contemporary Taiwanese society.
Furthermore, Rina Tsou will be sharing her experience in a lecture “In movies we can...” conducted by the Taoyuan New Immigrants Culture Hall. This activity is related to another workshop organized by Taoyuan New Immigrants Culture Hall.
More information can be found on the Taoyuan New Immigrants Culture Hall Facebook page.
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