Flush with the success of shooting footage at the Pride parade in Taipei, The News Lens sat down with young German filmmaker Lucie Liu to discuss her vision for ‘taipeilove*’, a documentary asking how it feels to be gay in Taiwan, both for her protagonists and the people closest to them.
The News Lens
Date: 2017/11/11
By: David Green
Lucie Liu, 24, is in the midst of filming taipeilove*, a documentary that seeks to answer
Credit: Reuters
the fundamental questions: How free, safe and open can gay and lesbian people be in Taiwan and how have social perceptions around their sexuality changed?
Inspired by the event’s of the 2016 Pride parade in Taipei, Munich-born Liu set out to reflect the changes coursing through Taiwan as its LGBTQ community and the society that surrounds it continues its landmark journey towards equality.
For even as the country celebrates the May 24, 2017, decision to lift the constitutional block on same-sex marriage, bringing the party to the streets over the Oct. 28 Pride parade, significant traditional, cultural and religious barriers remain. [FULL STORY]