Continuing from the 2022 film thread:
Nominated in six categories [at the Golden Horse Film Festival], Gaga took home two awards: best supporting actress for Kagaw Piling’s depiction of an Atayal matriarch trying to maintain order in the family as things fall apart (she is reportedly the oldest woman to receive this award in the festival’s history); and best director to Laha Mebow, who continues to shine as the first Indigenous woman in Taiwan to direct a feature length film.
Gaga also recently won the Best Narrative Feature award at this year’s Taipei Film Festival. Excellent news for those of us who are fans of the growing field of Indigenous cinema!
More details here: https://focustaiwan.tw/culture/202307090006
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