ADVANCE MOVIE TRAILER
A Los Angeles film crew from Gatling Pictures is in Taiwan filming a documentary about the long struggle for democracy on the island. The movie is to be titled Tsua-Lei-Dan and will examine Taiwan’s uncertain place in the world.
The Taiwan documentary is only the second production of Gatling Pictures, a new company founded in 2009 by Jeff Broadway. Broadway interned at 20th Century Fox where he learned his movie-making skills. The independent producer is a post-graduate student at the London School of Economics.
Open letter to the DPP chair Tsai Ing-wen
Dear Chairperson Tsai,
Just before the Lunar New Year break, the Philippine authorities took it upon themselves to extradite 14 Taiwanese suspected of criminal activities in their country to China, disregarding Taiwanese sovereignty. The move was widely seen as showing a lack of respect to our country. It was also a turn of events that enraged a lot of people here in Taiwan.
We believe that this was not simply a result of the Philippines’ adherence to the “one China” policy. We feel that it reveals something decidedly more sinister happening stage left. We suggest that Beijing had a hand in writing the script of this particular play, a collaborative effort with President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and the government he heads. How does the expression go? Thick as thieves.
