Taipei jury go gaga for Cha Cha

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Awards News

YAO Hung-yi 姚宏易's documentary Hometown Boy 金城小子 (2011) won the Grand Prize at the Taipei Film Festival 台北電影節's competition for local films on Saturday night.

Cha Cha for Twins 寶米恰恰, directed by YANG Yi-chien 楊貽茜 and Jim WANG 王傳宗, and HO Wi Ding 何蔚庭's I Wake Up in a Strange Bed 我愛恰恰 (2011) were awarded best feature and best short respectively.

It's not the first time that a documentary feature has taken the top prize at the Taipei festival. Two years ago, Let the Wind Carry Me 乘著光影旅行 (2009) won. Yao was one of the cinematographers on that film.

Best actor and actress were awarded to Joseph CHANG 張孝全 and Sandrine PINNA 張榕容 (pictured) for arguably the two most anticipated films at the festival, Gf*Bf 女朋友 男朋友 and Touch of the Light 逆光飛翔.

Cha-Cha also won prizes for Yang's script and CHEN Hsiao-tung 陳曉東's editing. GF*BF also won best supporting actor (Bryan CHANG 張書豪). Touch of the Light won the Audience Choice Award.

Other multiple-award winners included Starry Starry Night 星空 (2011), which won best new talent (Eric LIN 林暉閔) and best visual effects, and Young Dudes 騷人, which won best cinematography (Patrick CHOU 周宜賢) and best music (Soler).

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