Add to Calendar
When:
February 26, 2014 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
2014-02-26T13:00:00-08:00
2014-02-26T15:00:00-08:00
Where:
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
Humanities and Social Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara, Isla Vista, CA 93117
USA
Humanities and Social Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara, Isla Vista, CA 93117
USA
Contact:
Peggy Chiao is a film producer, professor and writer based in Taiwan but producing films from Taiwan and China. With a MA degree from UT Austin and Ph.D program at UCLA, Chiao is a major force in Chinese-language cinema and film studies, having 20 features, 5 documentaries, 3 television series and 70 publications under her belt. She is widely reputed for championing the Taiwan New Wave in the 1980?s by successfully introducing festival-favorites such as directors HOU Hsiao-Hsien, Edward YANG, TSAI Ming-Liang, ZHANG Zuo-Ji, LIN Cheng-Sheng and XIAO Ya-Quan. Chiao also helped China’s 5th and 6th Generation filmmakers to be recognized by the international stage, including WANG Xiao-Shuai, LIU Fen-Dou, LI Yu, TIAN Zhuang-Zhuang and LI Shao-Hong.
Co-sponsored by Film and Media Studies, the Center for Taiwan Studies, the Mellichamp Fund.