Ruth Giordano moved to Taipei at the age of 54 in 2009. She had never lived in Asia and did not speak Chinese. Without a job and local friends, she felt lost and worried about her life as a senior immigrant. “My job was my everything. I didn’t know what I could do in Taiwan.”

The News Lens
Date: 2017/02/25
By: Beyonder Times

At the end of 2013, a seven-minute commercial film “A Memory to Remember” by

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Kingston Technology Corporation went viral with over 1 million views on YouTube. This heartwarming short film told the story of an old woman who regularly went to a subway station to listen to her late husband’s announcement recording of “Mind the gap.” The lead actress is actually a resident of Taipei, and also the producer and director of Red Room Radio Redux (R4)(*1).

She is Ruth Giordano, who moved from New York to Taipei at the age of 54 with her husband in 2009. She had never lived in Asia and did not speak Chinese. Without a job and local friends, she felt lost and worried about her life as a senior immigrant. “My job was my everything. I didn’t know what I could do in Taiwan.”   [FULL  STORY]