Formosa News
Date: 2018/05/13

The golden age of the silver screen is long past, replaced by television and new media. But when cinema was in its heyday, gigantic oil-painted copies of movie posters were some of the most eye-grabbing ads on Taiwan’s streets. Now only one cinema in Tainan still displays such paintings – and only one man still makes a living from creating them. Let’s meet the last outdoor movie advertisement painter in Taiwan, who after 40 years in the business, says he’ll paint until his eyes can no longer see. Our Sunday special report.

January 2018. The Pingtung Tourism Film Festival. The county government highlighted more than four decades of work by Yan Jhen-fa: Taiwan’s last cinema poster painter.

The artist shows reporters his life’s work: a stroll back in time through cinematic history.    [FULL  STORY]