Golden Horse Film Festival
The Golden Horse Film Festival ( Chinese 金馬 影展 / 金马 影展 , Pinyin Jīnmǎ yǐngzhǎn ) is an annual film festival in Taiwan . It is considered one of the most important film festivals in the Chinese-speaking area. The Golden Horse Awards , one of the most important Chinese-language film awards, are presented on it.
The Golden Horse Awards were launched in 1957 by the Taiwanese film industry. In 1962, the organization and award of the awards were taken over by the Taiwanese government and combined with the Taipei film festival . In 1990, the government transferred the organization of the festival and the selection of the prizes to non-governmental bodies, which from then on determined the jury members. In 2002, the jury began not only to include Taiwanese filmmakers, but also to open them to internationally known personalities from the film world.
Since 1980 the festival has consisted of two parts, a purely Chinese-language part, in which the Golden Horse Awards are given for the best Chinese-language films, and an international part, in which films from all over the world are presented to the Taiwanese audience.
See also
literature
- Yingjin Zhang, Zhiwei Xiao: Encyclopedia of Chinese Film . Taylor & Francis, 1998, ISBN 0-415-15168-6 , p. 88. ( online restricted version (Google Books) ).
- Charles Leary: The People Are Missing: The 25th Taipei Golden Horse International Film Festival (and 40th Golden Horse Awards) . In Senses of Cinema. Issue 30, 2004.