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Yes they "Kano" - Taipei Times

Yes they "Kano" - Taipei Times

www.taipeitimes.com — When Wei Te-sheng (???), the director of Cape No. 7 and Seediq Bale, heard of a Chiayi high school baseball team that "almost" won the all-Japan Koshien summer tournament in Kobe in 1931, he just knew he had to make a movie about it. So he wrote a script, signed on as producer, asked Umin Boya to direct it, raised a pile of money, hired a cast of Taiwanese actors and extras, and the film, currently in production in Chiayi and other cities, is set to be released in early 2014.
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Movies Like 'Snowpiercer' Can Sound the Alarm

Movies Like 'Snowpiercer' Can Sound the Alarm

New York Times — "Cli-fi" movies and novels have the power to change minds. That's their mission. Have they sparked any change in society at large? Maybe not. But the potential of this genre is apparent in some of its storylines. A scientist takes a moral stand against the way the media trivializes and misreports climate issues facing humankind in Barbara Kingsolver's novel " Flight Behavior." The movie " Snowpiercer " gives a sense of climate change's effects on the developing world when a planetary catastrophe plunges the world into an ice age and the last members of humanity live on a train with the haves separated from the have-nots.
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Anime series drives climate issues home - Taipei Times

Anime series drives climate issues home - Taipei Times

www.taipeitimes.com — Photo: CNA First there was Doraemon, imported from Japan. Now there is Weather Boy! (?????), made in Taiwan. Both are aimed at children. Weather Boy! is a climate-fiction animation feature by award-winning Taiwanese director Chiu Li-wei (???) which is being screened nationwide on the Public Television Service (PTS). The 13-episode series is aimed at helping children to see, in a novel and exciting way, the effects of climate change. Chiu, 41, grew up in Greater Tainan's Rende District (??). He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Tainan National University, where he majored in animation, and he later attended the Bejing Film Academy, where he majored in directing, and obtained a doctorate.
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Transition in transition - Taipei Times

Transition in transition - Taipei Times

www.taipeitimes.com — Photo: Ke Yu-hao, Taipei Times As John Lennon once said, life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. Just ask British band Transition. Founded in 1997 by brothers Josh and Jess Edbrooke and Niall Dunne, the band toured around Britain and Europe and made a splash in Taiwan during Spring Scream in 2005. After that first memorable performance, the band fell in love with the country, its culture and its people, and pledged to return every year. In 2009, they moved to Taipei where they lived for over three years. But complications arose when the band was found guilty of performing without a proper work permit.
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Climate change has created a new literary genre

Climate change has created a new literary genre

Washington Post — Is climate change due for an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" moment? The 1852 bestseller helped transform abolitionism into a mainstream cause. Now, "cli-fi" is trying to do the same for environmentalism. The emerging genre is a cousin of sci-fi. But its books are set, NPR writes, "in worlds, not unlike our own, where the Earth's systems are noticeably off-kilter." And it's gaining both fans and writers. The climate-change canon dates back to the 1962 novel "The Drowned World" by British writer J. G. Ballard. In it, polar ice-caps have melted and global temperatures have soared. Presciently, some coastal American and European cities are under water.
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