{"id":702797,"date":"2024-11-28T00:08:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=702797"},"modified":"2024-11-28T00:08:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T08:08:47","slug":"online-censorship-about-lou-ye-geng-jun-films-winning-awards-at-61st-taipei-golden-horse-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2024\/11\/online-censorship-about-lou-ye-geng-jun-films-winning-awards-at-61st-taipei-golden-horse-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Censorship About Lou Ye, Geng Jun Films Winning Awards at 61st Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
A banner year for Chinese films and filmmakers at the 61st Taipei Golden Horse Awards<\/a> has attracted much attention on Chinese social media, despite strict ongoing censorship of any topic connected to the awards. This year\u2019s Golden Horse Award winners, announced on November 23, include Best Narrative Feature and Best Director for Lou Ye\u2019s \u201cAn Unfinished Film<\/a>,\u201d a work of docu-fiction about a film crew caught up in the COVID pandemic lockdown of Wuhan<\/a>; Best Leading Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and the Audience Choice Award for \u201cBel Ami<\/a>,\u201d Geng Jun\u2019s LGBTQ+-themed black comedy<\/a>; and Best Adapted Screenplay for Wang Xiaoshuai\u2019s \u201cAbove the Dust<\/a>,\u201d a coming-of-age film that casts a critical eye on events in PRC history<\/a> (including 1950s land reform, the Great Leap Forward, and the massive famine that ensued).<\/p>\n Chinese actors and films have technically been banned from participating in the Golden Horse Awards<\/a> since 2019, after a 2018 award-ceremony speech in which Taiwanese director Fu Yue expressed her wish for Taiwan to be treated as \u201can independent entity.\u201d Despite this restriction, films from China (including some co-produced films) made up over 200 of this year\u2019s record-high 718 Golden Horse Film Festival submissions from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, and Malaysia.<\/p>\n A recent CDT Chinese post notes that the film review site Douban has scrubbed any mention of the Golden Horse Awards or award winners from the site, and Weibo search results for "Golden Horse Awards" (\u91d1\u9a6c\u5956, J\u012bn M\u01ce Ji\u01ceng<\/em>) are restricted to content posted by certified \u201cblue V\u201d accounts. Despite this, some articles about the awards that omitted or altered director names and film titles are still circulating online<\/a>. For example, an article from WeChat account \u201cSuper-Sauce Movie Paradise\u201d (\u8d85\u9171\u7684\u7535\u5f71\u5929\u5802, Ch\u0101o Ji\u00e0ng de Di\u00e0ny\u01d0ng Ti\u0101nt\u00e1ng<\/em>) managed to escape censorship by employing some extensive linguistic sleight-of-hand:<\/p>\n Chinese censorship of the Golden Horse Awards has persisted since 2019, and was particularly noticeable in 2021, when Hong Kong director Kiwi Chow won Best Documentary Film for \u201cRevolution of Our Times<\/a>,\u201d about the 2019-2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy protests. At the time, many Weibo and Douban users who posted comments supportive of the film<\/a> later had their comments deleted by platform censors. <\/p>\n As AFP reported this week, amid tightening film censorship in China and Hong Kong, Taiwan\u2019s Golden Horse Awards have become an essential platform for Chinese filmmakers whose artistic output is not always welcomed back home<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n Ahead of the awards, MAC spokesman Liang Wen-chieh told reporters that these films "may not be able to be screened in mainland China, but they still hope to have a free platform to participate and express themselves".<\/p>\n […] Despite political tensions, Golden Horse remained a stage for independent Chinese films that have no distribution space on the mainland, Taiwanese film critic Wonder Weng told AFP.<\/p>\n "This spirit remains unchanged. I think the Golden Horse Awards have always insisted on being the benchmark" that is open to all subjects, said Weng, who is a board member of Taiwan Film Critics Society.<\/p>\n […] "Lou [Ye] put images that are banned or blocked into his work and reminds us that there is a director who is willing to preserve historical images for us to see… and let us know there is a different voice," Weng said. [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A banner year for Chinese films and filmmakers at the 61st Taipei Golden Horse Awards has attracted much attention on Chinese social media, despite strict ongoing censorship of any topic connected to the awards. This year\u2019s Golden Horse Award winners, announced on November 23, include Best Narrative Feature and Best Director for Lou Ye\u2019s \u201cAn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1084,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,116,20,14744,100,5,4202],"tags":[15004,15005,17783,15006,1936,17917,17863,646,4338,15131,13630,17672,14344,17846,2273,1550,17919,3935,17005,17007,17918,2459],"class_list":["post-702797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-world","category-culture","category-level-2-article","category-politics","category-society","category-translation","tag-artistic-freedom","tag-arts-censorship","tag-covid-19","tag-directors","tag-documentaries","tag-douban-censorship","tag-evading-censorship","tag-film","tag-film-censorship","tag-film-distribution","tag-film-festival","tag-golden-horse","tag-independent-film","tag-lgbtq","tag-movie-directors","tag-movies","tag-social-media-censorship","tag-taipei","tag-taiwan","tag-translation","tag-weibo-censorship","tag-wuhan","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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