The New Taipei City Documentary Awards held its awards ceremony on October 29th with the top three finalists revealed and issued the award certificates for the 13 best films of the year
Mayor Hou You-Yi said that the New Taipei City Documentary Awards has entered its 12th year. The city government encourages and assists the development of documentary films through competitions and open screenings. Mayor Hou also thanked all the industry practitioners of documentary film production for their devotions which recorded all the bitter and sweet on this land, that all the audience could step and immerse into different pieces of stories.
Mayor Hou said that in order to encourage excellent documentary film productions, the shooting fund for the award-selected films of the competition will be increased to NT$350,000 per film next year, so that the team will have more sufficient funds for film production.
In addition, New Taipei City Documentary Awards will continue the cooperations and set up awards with The Chi Po-lin Foundation to continue focusing on environmental issues in Taiwan.
Award ceremony this year invited Ou Jin-De the Chairman of The Chi Po-lin Foundation, Director Tseng Wen-Chen, the representative of the finalist juries, Ben Tsiang, founder and chairman of CNEX Foundation, senior documentary film producer Gary Shih, senior directors Huang Ming-Chuan, Yang Li-Chou, Huang Chia-Chun, Su Che-Hsien, Chou Wen-Chin, Maso Chen, etc., to enjoy this honorable moment with all the finalists and award-winners.
"Hearing From the Dolphin” from director Zhang Hong-Jie have won the first prize in 2022, the second award goes to "Poetry of Life” from director Hsu Ching-Lun, and the third prize goes to “Relife” from Huang Sheng-Chun and Hsueh Lo-Yi. The top three award-winners have won the trophy and bonus NT$100,000, NT$80,000 and, NT$60,000 respectively.
In addition, because all the juries unanimously believed that this year's entries have great diversity in not only themes but issues, they decided to add a Special Recommendation Award and provide a bonus of NT$30,000. The winner goes to "Nut Brother" from director Dapeng Xia and Stephen Che.
This year, New Taipei City Documentary Awards cooperate with The Chi Po-lin foundation, to invite all the juries, directors and award-finalists and winners to see the documentary film “Beyond Beauty - TAIWAN FROM ABOVE” in Banqiao ShowTime theater, as a kick off to “2022 New Taipei City International Documentary Month”, screening at “Fuzhon 15 Documentary Film Theater”, where the 13 award-winning films of the year will also be premiering to the public, and welcome all the citizens to enjoy the films.
The 2023 New Taipei City Documentary Awards will call for entires via online applications. The receipt date is from January 1 to March 1, 2023. For relevant information and the 2022 New Taipei City International Documentary Month and following screening information, please visit the official website http://www.doc.ntpc.gov.tw or official Facebook fan page “New Taipei City Documentary”.
