UNSCRIPTED? A Hong Kong paper reported a possible Chinese ban, but one leading movie figure dismissed the idea and the awards committee said it had not heard of it
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 20, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA
A controversy that erupted at Saturday night’s Golden Horse Awards ceremony
Minister of Culture Cheng Li-chiun answers questions from legislators at a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Education and Culture Committee in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei Times
shows no signs of ending as the Chinese-language Apple Daily’s Hong Kong edition yesterday reported that Chinese companies have been banned from entering films coproduced with Taiwanese firms in Golden Horse events.
The paper said the directive came from the Chinese Communist Party’s publicity department in the wake of Taiwanese director Fu Yue (傅榆) saying during her acceptance speech for best documentary for Our Youth in Taiwan (我們的青春，在台灣) that her greatest wish was that one day Taiwan “can be treated as a truly independent entity.”
Asked to confirm the report, the Golden Horse Awards executive committee said: “We have not heard about this. Applications for next year’s Golden Horse Awards begin in June.”
The Cross-Strait Films Exchange Committee said it had not “heard of or received any information” about a Chinese movie boycott.
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