Deaflympic

Nat Geo Documentary.

Super Pigs

Nat Geo Documentary.

Hip Hop Nation

Nat Geo Documentary.

Trash To Treasure

Nat Geo Documentary.

Spirit Talk

Nat Geo Documentary.

2011年12月16日 星期五

The Seafarers In The Wheat Field 麥田裡的海員


Title: The Seafarers In The Wheat Field
Year made : in production
Length: 47 mins
Region: Taiwan/China
Produced by Dynamic Communications Company & Dwenfu Production House
Producer: Gary Shih
Director: Huo Ning

Synopsis

Henan province, With a population of one hundred million, in the middle of China, there are lots of country young men leaving hometown to make a living. So, the job of sailor means high salary for them to get rich and dream of traveling round the world. In the first school of sailor in inland, a group of country young men who never see the sea will receive the training of sailor, simulative learn living skill on overseas ship in the land, and the way of learning swimming in washbowl is great challenge for them. They are eager to change their destinies through the job of sailor, when the harvest season in wheat filed is coming, could they see the sea?
The film will record their dream practice and experience, and show current young country men in the middle of China feel confusion and hope for the future , their view of life and value.


Treatment

Have you seen the sea?”
No”, some young men give the same answer before the shot.
These young men coming from the country in Henan province, are receiving sailor training in a sailor school in the suburbs of Xinxiang City. If all goes well, they will work in the overseas ship as a sailor after graduating. The picture poster in the corridor of school marks the monthly salary of $1000 to $7000, Thousands of dollars in monthly income equivalent to two years of they home. it means astronomical figures for the young men from the impoverished country
and filled with Temptation. But before go to the ship, get high salary and even travel round the world, these young man must receive a series of study and challenge.
Xiao qin and Xiao wang both graduate from high school, they are facing to their first choices in the life, continue to study or find a job? They don’t want to repeat their father’s Farmer livings, do farm job, and eager to find a beautiful future belong to themselves. In their eyes, sailors could get more higher pay than the same aged , help family get rich and travel round the world. Although family don’t know the job, but they lend the money to them for being a sailor.
Xiao Qin likes movies of Hollywood on the Internet, especially with sea and ship. Except listening teacher talk interesting and news in the sea, he knows the world outside the sea from movies. He has a dream that he could go to Maldives and Paris France on his first sailing.
Xiao Wang’s family is not rich in the country, he just hopes to be a sailor very soon with high salary to change the living condition of family.
Survival at Sea, Maritime English, Ship handing, Radar observation, Nautical meteorology and other dozens of courses make Xiao Qin and Xiao Wang feel very fresh, who never see the sea even a ship. Courses for these strange ships never touched them, full of great challenge . Xiao Wang is the most headaches is the English , Daily English conversation never say , Maritime English for him more as mumbo-jumbo generally difficult . But this is them to become a sailor must grasp a foreign language . He worried whether through the course examination .after one year, They will get a series of certificate through the exams to get the qualification of being a sailor. Because of International financial tsunami, International shipping market is downturn, the employment condition is not optimistic for Chinese sailor. Sailors like Xiao Qin and Xiao Wang from the middle provinces of China, should pay more efforts to get in ocean shipping Road.
There is a huge wheat filed around the school, when the next harvest time is coming they will also finish their study. But could they get in the overseas ship thousand miles away successfully? What is the starting point the sea they never see will give them? This film will pursuit their study and work experience and face the dream and realistic sailing together.

The Forgotten City 時代廢城



Title: The Forgotten City
Year made : in production
Length: 47 mins
Region: Taiwan/China
Produced by CNEX, Dynamic Communications Company & Dwenfu Production House
Producer: Gary Shih
Director: Huo Ning

Synopsis

For Chinese, the last century is more than a war era, starting from Sino-Japanese War in 1931, Second World War in 1937, Civil War in 1945, Korean War in 1950, and the smell of gunpowder spread all the way to the 1980s since the tension between China and The Soviet Union in 1966. People living in that era were unable to resist fate. However, the war was just like a sequela after a serious illness, which carved the invisible mark on them, such as Ning and Gary.
Ning lives in Zhengzhou City while being a native of the Northeast; Gary lives in Taipei while being a native of Jiangsu. Both of their grandfathers left their hometown to another entirely strange city for wars.
In 1949, Gary’s grandfather was a low-level school staff in Jiangsu, China. Duo to The Civil War, his grandfather and most of his family migrated to Taiwan with the KMT party and stayed for sixty years. His grandfather was never able to return home again. In 1969, Ning's grandfather was a supervisor in a munitions factory in the Northeast. Because of Mao’s strategic needs, Ning’s grandfather was sent to a remote mountain in Henan to build a new factory and stayed in the mountain for over fourty years.
Growing up in a foreign land, Ning and Gary have only a vague impression of their hometown, by the stories heard from their grandparents and parents when they were little. When someone asks themWhere are you from?” They share a common confusion: “Where is my hometown?”
The film will start from the personal stories of Ning and Gary, and extend to people of a abandoned three-line military factory in Henan, China and also those of a removing military community in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. We will see the hometown in their memories and their current and future homes with their migratory paths and the journey of livies. Whether it’s fourty or sixty years, whether in Taiwan or China, these people now became old or even passed way. The houses or fatories they built are already in poor condition. The reason they migrated had already been blurred by reality. Moving away has become the common destiny of the two sides.

Trash To Treasure 綠色寶藏




Title: Trash To Treasure
Year made :2011
Length: 47/50 mins
Region: Taiwan
Produced by National Geographics Channel & Dynamic Communications Company
Producer: Gary Shih, Charlene Shih
Director: Allen Tsai

Synopsis

In Taiwan - a revolution begins. But not a political revolution. It's a fight for survival. The enemy - trash. It threatens to overwhelm the island...unless these people can stem the tide and discover new ways to re-use the refuse they already have.
Here - the best and the brightest engineers are retro-fitting the world's second tallest skyscraper into one of the greenest in the world. And they've got practically no time to do it...
Here - a young architect is trying to become a modern-day noah - by building a vast arc - made only of trash......into treasure. And if they succeed - they believe the world will follow. It's a project for the next generation. And each of its missions seems impossible. 
Can they pull it off?

2011年12月15日 星期四

Tomb Digger 掘土人

Title: Tomb Digger
Year made :2009-2010 (in production)
Length: 90 mins
Region: Taiwan & China
Produced by Dynamic Communications Company & Dunfu production Company
Producer: Gary Shih, Charlene Shih
Director: Gary Shih

Synopsis
A mystery that has been lingering for 1800 years
No one knows where Cao-cao was buried in the period of the Three Kingdoms.
This suspicious emperor was known as a great militarist, politician, and a poet. Rumors that he had possible 72 tombs just to avoid people dig out his remains.
But this year the mystery will be revealed.
An archeologist Pan is undergoing this secret mission. In the summer of 2008, Pan followed a group of tomb robbers; and found something bigger than he can imagine.
We will follow Pan and his team’s journey and find out the stories behind Cao-cao and his tomb.

Inside: Deaflympics 透視內幕:2009台北聽障奧運

Title: Inside: Deaflympics
Year made :2010
Length: 47/50 mins
Region: Taiwan
Produced by National Geographics Channel & Dynamic Communications Company
Producer: Gary Shih, Charlene Shih
Director: Charlene Shih

Synopsis
Athletes and competitions aside, having a spectacular opening ceremony will set the mood for the Taipei Deaflympics. American-born Stan Lai, one of Asia's few theatre and film directors acknowledged worldwide, has been engaged to put on the show. But challenges abound. From limited funding to one of the worst typhoon in Taiwan’s history, how will Lai and his team overcome these obstacles and put on a grand opening ceremony for both the deaf and hearing audience?

Hip Hop Nation 嘻哈台灣


Title: Hip Hop Nation
Year made :2008
Length: 47 Mins
Region: Taiwan
Produced by National Geographic Channel & Dynamic Communications Company.
Producer: Gary Shih, Charlene Shih
Director: Marti Bercaw

Awards:
Guangzhou International Film Festival

Synopsis:
Hip Hop might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Taiwan but, after watching Hip Hop Nation, it will be.
All across the island, people of all ages are using hip hop music, rap, graffiti, fashion and street dance as inspiration to speak out, wear outrageous clothes and move their bodies in astonishing ways. A crew of skilled hip hop dancers from Taiwan travels to Los Angeles to perform on stage and battle American dancers in front of American audiences who will decide their fate with their applause. Taiwan comes home with the biggest prize of all? What is it? You be the judge.

Super Pigs 超級豬


Title: Super Pigs
Year made :2007
Produced by National Geographic Channel & Dynamic Communications Company
Producer: Gary Shih
Director: Charlene Shih
Running time: 47 mins

Awards:
Columbus International Film Festival- Honorary Mention
Guang Zhou International Film Festival

Synopsis:
They are cute, smart, have sharp memories and a keen sense of smell. Some might add that they have incredible figures and wear high heels all the time. Not only are they destine for the dinner table, but in Taiwan, they also contribute much to mankind, simply by glowing red and green! These are no alien mutants, they are today’s Super pigs.. With powers to advance science and keep us looking beautiful and young. From glow pig to stud pig, this is the story about them, the fascinating world of today’s super pigs and the science behind them!