Film Screening | Untold Herstory 流麻溝十五號

Untold Herstory 流麻溝十五號
Directed by Zero Chou 周美玲
1h52m | 2022 | PG

Untold Herstory tells a story of three female political prisoners at the concentration camps on Green Island—an islet off the east coast of Taiwan—in the 1950s. The film is an adaptation of Bonfire Island: Untold Herstory by Tsao Chin-jung 曹欽榮, a published collection of interviews with female political prisoners from that time. During that period, under the Republic of China government, political parties—apart from the Chinese Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang—were banned and any discussion of democracy or Taiwanese independence led to arrest and detention. The female political prisoners chose to fight for freedom, but were more forcefully suppressed by the authorities. They held on to their beliefs, hoping for true freedom to come.

Pasuya Yao 姚文智 is the founder of Thuànn Taiwan Film Corporation and executive producer of Untold Herstory. Prior to his career in film production, he was a Democratic Progressive Party legislator (2012–2018) and the Director-General of the Government Information Office (2005–2006). With education background in mass media and political science, Pasuya was a journalist and editor for Liberty Times.

Light refreshments at 6pm for 6:30pm start. The film screening will be followed by Q&A with film producer Pasuya Yao.

This event is brought to you by ANU Taiwan Studies Program, Taiwanese Association of Canberra, Australia and Australasian Taiwan Studies Association.