S U N D A Y , M A Y 1
PROGRAM 25, 12:00 p.m.
Directors Guild of America, Theatre Two

62 YEARS AND 6,500 MILES BETWEEN
(United States/Taiwan, 2005) Dir./Wtr.: Anita Wen-Shin Chang

In the exhilarating momentum of Taiwanese self-determination, and the increasing instability of American democracy, the filmmaker navigates cultural, geographical and linguistic distances in search of wisdom and hope from her 100 year-old Taiwanese activist grandmother (Ama). The film explores the filmmakerís discovery about her grandmotherís political sensibility just prior to entering a full-care facility; the personal and intimate details remembered by those closely associated with her; her award-winning autobiographical essay which was published in 1994 by the Taipei Womenís Rights Organization; and the filmmakerís own memories. As the film progresses, we hear history being told from various perspectives. Eventually, twists and turns develop along the way: the expectation that the camera is a reliable witness, or that the translation is accurate, facts that Ama left out of her biography, or that the biography was even written by Ama. In the end, viewers come away with some insight into Taiwanís colonial past and now as a new democracy, Taiwanís relationship to the neocolonial powers of U.S. and transnational corporations, the post-colonial diasporic experience, and at the same time witness the incredible challenges of constructing a history.
16mm, 50 minutes, Color, Documentary

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