A Letter to A'ma & Post-Screening Q&A with Director Hui-Ling Chen

1515 12th Avenue,Seattle WA 98122

29 March, 2023

Description

The Taiwanese Association of Greater Seattle (TAGS) and the UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program are co-hosting a special film screening of the award-winning Taiwanese documentary film, A Letter to A'ma (2021), directed by Hui-Ling Chen. Director Hui-Ling Chen will join the audience in person for a post-screening Q&A session to celebrate this special PNW premiere of the award-winning documentary, A Letter to A’ma. About A Letter to A'ma In A Letter to A'ma, Taiwanese art teacher/filmmaker Hui-Ling returns to her childhood home to mourn the passing of her grandmother. As she pieces together the fragmented memories of her youth, she finds herself coming face-to-face with the problematic issue of her country’s fractured history. Through a student art project guided by this teacher that has lasted for over a decade, a representational portrait of the island’s collective memory begins to emerge, initiating a process in which Taiwan, an island-nation forgotten by the world and in the midst of forgetting itself after centuries of colonization and decades of dictatorship, can now remember its past and re-envision its postcolonial identity through art. *A Letter to A'ma is in Taiwanese Hokkien, Indigenous Taiwanese languages, Mandarin, and Japanese, with English subtitles. Director Biography - Hui-Ling CHEN Hui-Lin CHEN was a high school art teacher before leaving her post to study cinema in France. After studying cinema, she returned to Taiwan and founded the educational project: “The collective memory of the island”, while filming the documentary A Letter to A’ma. She has collaborated with schools across the country to empower youths in harnessing their creativity through art. The film testifies to the dedication over ten years of this project. In 2018, she received an award from the Ministry of Education in Taiwan for her contribution to arts education for the younger generation. Learn more about TAGS at http://www.tagseattle.org/ Learn more about UW Taiwan Studies Arts & Culture Program at https://jsis.washington.edu/taiwan/