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Film Introduction
Inspired by a true story.
Panay, a women grew up in the an Indigenous tribe, left her home to work in the city as a journalist to support her children and elderly parent back in her tribe. While paying a visit back home, she found her tribe had been overdeveloped and changed by tourism. She realized how her tribe and the use of land have changed and how the local culture are losing its significance. The community was losing their land and their culture, so Panay decided to fight back for the values that she long believes in. In this process, she found it's not only about the land, but also about who she is.
With heart-warming plot, beautiful landscape, and enchanting music, “Wawa No Cidal” is a movie suitable for all audience. With the theme surrounding respect for lands, director Cheng Yu-Chieh (Han) and Lekai Sumi (Pangcah) adopt a realistic filming technique showing the beauty of nature. “Wawa No Cidal" was awarded the Audience Choice Award from the Taipei Film Festival, elected as the Opening Film at 2015 Singapore International Film Festival and nominated 2015 ICFT-UNESCO Fellini Award. The film song was awarded the Best Original Film Song from the 2015 Golden Horse Film Festival.
The movie reflects people’s values of lands as seen in ongoing conflicts in many parts of the world. This is a film about identity, about finding roots to one's own culture, about inter-cultural and inter-generational relationship in an increasingly diverse and multicultural world. It also underlines the hegemony of capitalist influence on the community, and how that impacts people's sense of safety, self-identity, family relationships, and local resources.
Wawa No Cidal - Film Screening
Wawa No Cidal, a film about indigenous family struggles against capitalist property developers on ancestral lands in Taiwan, will be shown at WJC at 6:15PM on February 13th, 2017 in room 335/336.
Discussion will be moderated by Dr. Mengchun Chiang and led by Ado Kaliting Pacidal (the film's lead actress), and DJ Hatfield (an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music).
Screening sponsored by the Center for Multicultural and Global Mental Health, the Black Mental Health Graduate Academy, Education Division of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston (Ministry of Education in Taiwan), Taiwanese American Foundation of Boston (TAF-BOS), New England Association of Chinese Professionals, and Berklee College of Music.
More Information about the event
Ado Kaliting Pacidal, a Pangcah / 'Amis songwriter, actor, and media personality, who will be travelling to Boston for a series of activities showcasing contemporary Taiwanese culture. During the last twenty years, Taiwanese indigenous songwriters and directors have created a vibrant scene that in its popular cultural gloss and engagement with issues facing Taiwanese indigenous communities, performs important work, increasing the visibility of Taiwanese indigenous people on Taiwan and broadcasting a new image of Taiwan to the world. One of the major figures in these contemporary cultural movements on Taiwan is Ado Kaliting Pacidal. A media personality with a long running series of shows on TITV, a songwriter with two full length albums, and an award winning actress, Ado has a perspective on Taiwan's indigenous cultural scene that crosses media and generations. Recently, she starred in Lekal Sumi's feature length film, "Wawa no Cidal," which has been a favorite on the festival circuit.
William James College is proud to host Ado's visit on February 9th, where audience will first enjoy a screening of Wawa No Cidal, following a discussion and performance led by Ado and Dj Hatfield (Berklee College of Music). Ado's visit will be a very rare visit by a Taiwanese media personality to Boston and quite likely the only visit of a Taiwanese indigenous performer and songwriter to Boston during the last five years. Ado's visit will introduce the general public to a relatively unknown side of Taiwanese life, show how the stories of Makota'ay connect to a global audience, and create new possibilities for collaboration between the US and Taiwan. William James College is proud to present the film and welcome Ado to visit the campus, as well as excited about the collaboration with Berklee College of Music. The movie screening is also sponsored by Education Division of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston (Minister of Education in Taiwan) and New England Association of Chinese Professionals.