Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/11/07
By: Cheng Ching-wen and Flor Wang

Chung Chia-chun (鍾家駿, front, center) / photo courtesy of Swallow Wings Films

Taipei, Nov. 7 (CNA) Taiwan’s Chung Chia-chun (鍾家駿) has won the Award for Best Young Actor at the Minsk International Film Festival in Belarus, the organizers announced Tuesday.

Chung, 14, the youngest actor to have won that award at the festival, stars in the movie “Long Time No Sea,” directed by Heather Tsui (崔永徽).

He plays an aboriginal boy living on Orchid Island who decides to join a traditional dance troupe that takes him to Taipei where he reunites with his father whom he rarely sees.

The movie was filmed on Orchid Island — a small island off the southeastern coast of Taiwan that is home to the Tao aboriginal tribe, of which Chung is a member.
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