April's Masterclass in collaboration with BFFB

On Wednesday, April 9, at 9:30 AM, ZeLIG incollaboration with BFFB will host the masterclass "Mirror or Hammer? Documentary practices and field work in Taiwan" with Tsai Tsung Lung.

The event is free and requires a registration here.

Tsai Tsung Lung is a Taiwanese director and producer. He graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University with a Master degree in Mass Communication, specializing in documentary filmmaking. He started his career as a journalist for the Independence Morning Post and Wealth Magazine. Later he joined Investigation Report (Super TV) and Hall of Dissent (FTV) and took charge of the in-depth report and investigation.

These experiences helped him better understand our society. When he accidentally read about a vacancy at the Documentary Division of PTS Taiwan, he daringly took his leap onto the path of documentary and stayed on.

His work has been selected by various film festivals in Taiwan, and he was selected by the Taipei Film Festival for his film "Surviving Evil" (2008) which won the first prize at the Southern Film Festival. As a director and producer, he is known for his award-winning films including Surviving Evil: Oil Disease, selected for the Taipei Film Festival, and Condemned Practice Mode, which won the South Award at the 2016 South Taiwan Film Festival and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Golden Horse Awards. In 2022, he directed And Miles to Go Before I Sleep, which won the Best Documentary at the Golden Horse Awards.

His film And Miles to Go Before I Sleep won Best Documentary Feature at the 59th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, 2022. It was also nominated for Best Director and Best Documentary at the 2023 Taipei Film Festival. Beyond Taiwan, it has been screened at film festivals in Macao, Paris, Busan, Hong Kong, and Yogyakarta.

It will be screened at BFFB on the 8 at 5.30 PM.