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Forget You Not opens in Taipei, where Cheng Le-Le straddles two worlds: the glare of a comedy-club spotlight and the fluorescent lights of her convenience-store shift. Across eight 45-minute episodes, Netflix’s Taiwanese drama charts her evolving bond with her father, Kuang-Chi, after doctors diagnose him with early dementia.

Director René Liu stages the series with a light touch—flashbacks, on-stage monologues and muted domestic scenes weave together into a portrait that never shies from both laughter and unease.

Cheng Le-Le (Hsieh Ying-Hsuan) narrates family lore through stand-up routines, turning market mishaps and hospital visits into improvised confessions. Chin Han’s Kuang-Chi drifts between eccentric dreamer and confused retiree, his memory lapses springing unexpected interventions into Le-Le’s struggle to launch a comedy career in a field still skewed toward men.

With cinematography that favors natural daylight and warm interiors, the series plants viewers in spaces that feel lived-in. This...

This year, the Lightbox section of Toronto International Film Festival is hosting the world premiere of the sophomore feature film directed by Xi Huang, “Daughter’s Daughter”. The director’s debut “Missing Johnny” (2017) had a healthy and fruitful festival tour, but mainly on the Asian continent and at festivals specialized in Asian cinema. The new effort is more likely to travel further and longer, while the name of the legendary Taiwanese New Wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien as the executive producer on ending credits suggests that Xi might be the new, internationally recognized voice of the Taiwanese cinema.

Daughter’s Daughter is screening at Far East Film Festival

The protagonist of the film is Jin Ai-xia (the one and only Sylvia Chang), a woman who spent a part of her life in New York and the other part in Taipei. From the two “episodes”, she has two daughters, Emma (Karena Lam) who lives...

Netflix has set Taiwanese drama series “Forget You Not,” directed by multi-hyphenate talent Rene Liu, who steps behind the camera after establishing herself as one of Taiwan’s premier actress-singers.

The drama features an ensemble cast featuring Golden Horse Award-winning actress Hsieh Ying-xuan, veteran actor Chin Han, Tracy Chou and Esther Liu (“At the Moment”). The series also benefits from special appearances by Wallace Huo (“Light the Night”), Wang Po-chieh (“Eye of the Storm”) and Chen Yi-wen.

Set against the backdrop of a bustling metropolis, “Forget You Not” delves into the powerful role of memory within family dynamics. The narrative centers on Cheng Le-le (Hsieh), a stand-up comedian moonlighting as a convenience store employee who struggles to balance her career ambitions with her marriage. While harboring dreams of a brighter future, she navigates complex relationships with her husband Chang Kai (Huo) and her father Cheng Kuang-chi (Chin Han). These challenges...

This year, the Lightbox section of Toronto International Film Festival is hosting the world premiere of the sophomore feature film directed by Xi Huang, “Daughter’s Daughter”. The director’s debut “Missing Johnny” (2017) had a healthy and fruitful festival tour, but mainly on the Asian continent and at festivals specialized in Asian cinema. The new effort is more likely to travel further and longer, while the name of the legendary Taiwanese New Wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien as the executive producer on ending credits suggests that Xi might be the new, internationally recognized voice of the Taiwanese cinema.

Daughter’s Daughter is screening at Toronto International Film Festival

The protagonist of the film is Jin Ai-xia (the one and only Sylvia Chang), a woman who spent a part of her life in New York and the other part in Taipei. From the two “episodes”, she has two daughters, Emma (Karena Lam) who lives...

Reuniting with screen legend Sylvia Chang after HBO Asia series “Twisted Strings”, writer-director Huang Xi (“Missing Johnny”) levels up with her deeply moving second feature, “Daughter’s Daughter”. Executive-produced by Chang and Hou Hsiao-hsien, the film elegantly explores the blurred lines between selflessness and selfishness, through a tale of modern motherhood that poses complex questions of responsibility when faced with sorrow: who is a mother, especially one who has often questioned her own parenting, to decide what to do with her deceased daughter’s unborn child?

Following a dialogue-free opening with Sylvia Chang on the border of New Jersey, the story starts with a prologue in winter 2018. At a Taipei hospital, Chang’s character Jin Aixia (or “Ai” as she’s called sometimes) is waiting in a hospital corridor while a leak in her room is being resolved. Breaking her leg in an accident, she’s potentially going to need surgery.

Taiwan-based Andrews Film has picked up international sales rights to drama film “Daughter’s Daughter” ahead of its premiere in the Platform section of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Directed by Huang Xi (“Missing Johnny”), the film has an impeccable pedigree flowing from its executive producers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Sylvia Chang. Taiwan industry icon, Chang also stars in the picture, alongside Karena Lam and Eugenie Liu (“Old Fox”).

The film chronicles the journey and the choices made by a 60-year-old woman whose daughter dies in an accident. The older woman discovers that she is responsible for her dead daughter’s IVF embryo and decides to confront the other daughter she had as a teenager. While past regrets and future responsibilities collide, the film also probes the complexities of reproduction among the LGBT community.

The film is produced by Sun Lok Productions and received project investment from Taicca on behalf of National Development Fund.

New York, April 25, 2023 – The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (Iadas) today announced the Winners for the 27th Annual Webby Awards. Winners include companies, content and campaigns from Apple TV, Adobe’s Frame.io, ESPN’s 30 for 30 Podcast, Headspace, Discord, Nike’s Just A/Run, Etsy, Disney’s TikTok, Pod Save America, Spotify’s Wrapped, Blokhaus, Mozilla’s Irl: AI in Real Life podcast, Verizon’s Halftime Show and Google Store; pop culture phenomena such as Ted Lasso, Stray, HBO Max’s “Negroni Sbagliato,” and Recess Therapy’s “It’s Corn;” as well as cultural icons including Lizzo, Former President Barack Obama, Doja Cat, Blackpink, the cast of Stranger Things, the cast of Wakanda Forever, Trixie Mattel, Hugh Jackman, Christina Aguilera, Hoda Kotb, Patrick Mahomes, Jimmy Kimmel, Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Trevor Noah, and more.

For the full list of Winners visit: http://webbyawards.com/winners

The Webbys will once...

Harry Styles, Post Malone, Lizzo, Doja Cat, Megan Thee Stallion, the cast of “Ted Lasso” and the web series that gave us a kid loving corn are among the nominees for this year’s Webby Awards, recognizing the best internet content and creators.

The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences announced the nominees on Tuesday, the result of nearly 14,000 entries from 70 countries.

Styles nabbed a nomination for his commercial for AirPods, Trevor Noah for his segments filmed between the scenes at “The Daily Show” and BTS fans for their YouTube uploads called #MyBTStory. Lizzo got one for her hosting her show “Lizzo’s Watch Out For the Big Grrrls,” in which she hunts for dancers.

Doja Cat’s reluctant social video for Taco Bell’s Mexican Pizza — “I like my pizza with refried beans/Peep my ad/ Search YouTube/This ain’t even Mexican food” — was nominated for best advertising partnership,...

Twitter, like many places on the internet, is full of trolls. And also lots of people worse than trolls.

Those people are why Tracy Chou founded Block Party. The tech startup offers what it describes as “middleware”–aka third-party augments that operate on top of existing social media platforms and let users control their experiences.

In Twitter’s case, Block Party lets you do things like blacklist individual tweets so that your account automatically blocks anyone who likes or retweets that post. That’s a feature any Block Party user gets for free; it also offers paid functions like keyword filters, where users can block accounts that tweet specific words or have specific words in their usernames.

Chou launched Block Party in January 2021, and now her company has raised its first 4.8 million in seed funding, TechCrunch reports.

The round was led by Stellation Capital with participation from venture-capital firms Impellent Ventures,...

Raise your glass and toast to Time's 2022 Women of the Year! On March 8, International Women's Day, the honorees gathered in Los Angeles for the Time Women of the Year gala. The event comes days after the magazine announced this year's list of leaders: Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, actress Kerry Washington, singer Kacey Musgraves, Pose star Michaela Jae "Mj" Rodriguez, Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix, poet Amanda Gorman, president and CEO of Nasdaq Adena Friedman, founder and CEO of Rise Amanda Nguyen, health advocate Jennie Joseph, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Sherrilyn Ifill, software engineer Tracy Chou and journalist Zahra Joya. "When...

Exclusive: Just in time for the start of a new school year, Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Try Harder!, a documentary set within San Francisco’s most competitive public high school.

The film directed by Debbie Lum (Seeking Asian Female), follows five seniors at Lowell High “as they try to get into the elite college of their dreams,” as Lum explained in a video for the Sundance Film Festival, where Try Harder! premiered in January.

It’s tough to earn admission to Lowell—“Only the city’s best and brightest qualify to get in,” observes producer Lou Nakasako—and once inside the doors students face enormous pressure to succeed.

“Getting into college has never been harder than it is today. High school has really changed,” Lum notes. “So many students are under much more stress. We really wanted to capture the students’ story.”

The filmmakers recorded one religious high schooler,...