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Please note: this event takes place at the Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles, located at 1137 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90024.
Interested in a career in film programming and curation? Curious about how films were selected for the inaugural What Time Is It There? Taiwanese Film Biennial, or are you just a lover of Taiwanese cinema and want to learn more about what terrific films are being made in Taiwan today? Join us at Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles for a night of conversation with the curators of Taiwanese Film Biennial, Paul Malcolm and Robert Chi, and learn more about the current scene of Taiwanese cinema, their experiences and process of selecting films, as well as their curatorial ideologies.
Paul Malcolm is the film programmer at UCLA Film & Television Archive. He was an associate programmer of feature and short films for the Los Angeles Film Festival 2006-2010. As adjunct faculty, he as taught classes on the history and aesthetics of 3D cinema and film reviewing at Chapman University. He was also a assistant film editor and film critic for the LA Weekly from 1998-2006. He has an M.A. in film studies from UCLA and is a Sundance Institute Arts Writing Fellow (2001).
Robert Chi studied at Yale University (B.A.) and Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D), and he has taught at Tunghai University (Taiwan), Columbia University, and Stony Brook University. His teaching and research focus on Chinese cinema in all senses of that term. He has taught, researched, and published on a range of topics across China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan including public memory, visual culture, film exhibition, film music, documentary, and martial arts films.
