{"id":15625,"date":"2011-12-19T01:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T05:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=15625"},"modified":"2011-12-19T01:41:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T05:41:33","slug":"hand-in-hand-usa-premiere-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=15625","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hand in Hand&#8221; USA Premiere in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Completed after five years of arduous work by the makers of Let It Be (\u7121\u7c73\u6a02, 2005), Hand in Hand\u300a\u727d\u962e\u7684\u624b\u300bbrings you a story of love, faith and pursuit of democracy with both laughter and tears.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Awards winner, \u300a\u727d\u962e\u7684\u624bHand in Hand, 2011\u300b, one of the best Taiwanese documentaries directed by first prize winners of Taiwan International Documentary Film, reveals the country\u2019s past through the lives of an activist couple. Hand in Hand portrayed a series of political events such as the 228 Incident, the Formosa Incident and the lifting of martial law not as hollow dates in history books but as parts of people\u2019s lives, showing the passion, strength and sacrifice that helped to shape Taiwanese society.<\/p>\n<p>What kind of love is this that a 17 year-old girl with a prestigious educational and family background would willingly elope with a young doctor twice her age and risk all that she had? What does it take for this couple to stick together through the ups and downs as they fight fearlessly for Taiwan&#8217;s democracy, even if it means endless sacrifices? Directors Yen Lan-chuan (\u984f\u862d\u6b0a) and Juang Yi-tzeng (\u838a\u76ca\u589e), threads together interviews, found footage, animation, archival records and manuscripts to tell of the six-decade relationship between democracy activists Tien Meng-shu (\u7530\u5b5f\u6dd1) and Tien Chao-ming (\u7530\u671d\u660e). They spent five years on this inspiring story interwoven with Taiwan&#8217;s path to democracy, will surely bring you a wonderful journey with them through the time tunnel of Taiwan&#8217;s past.<\/p>\n<p>It is a must-see for anyone interested in the history of Taiwan\u2019s democracy movement, and even more important for those who don\u2019t think it affects them.\u201d Quoted from Taipei Times.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Juang Yi-tzeng (\u838a\u76ca\u589e) and Yen Lan-chuan (\u984f\u862d\u6b0a)<br \/>\nStarring: Tien Meng-shu (\u7530\u5b5f\u6dd1) as herself, Tien Chao-ming (\u7530\u671d\u660e) as himself, And Tien Chiu-chin (\u7530\u79cb\u5807) as herself<br \/>\nRunning Time:140 Minutes<br \/>\nGenre: Mixture of Documentary and Romance<br \/>\nLanguage: Hoklo, Mandarin and Japanese with Chinese and English subtitles<br \/>\nTaiwan Release: 11\/18\/2011 in Taiwan<br \/>\nUSA Premier Date: 12\/19, 12\/20, 12\/21 Screening Time: 6:30PM~9:00PM<br \/>\nOfficial Trailer: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/f4z7okX0wAQ\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/f4z7okX0wAQ<\/a><br \/>\nBlog: <a href=\"http:\/\/hands2011.pixnet.net\/blog\">http:\/\/hands2011.pixnet.net\/blog<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2011Hands\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/2011Hands<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completed after five years of arduous work by the makers of Let It Be (\u7121\u7c73\u6a02, 2005), Hand in Hand\u300a\u727d\u962e\u7684\u624b\u300bbrings you a story of love, faith and pursuit of democracy with both laughter and tears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-up-to-date-news-on-everything-asian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15626,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15625\/revisions\/15626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}