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According to Netflix s press release, Director Huang Hsin-Yao continued his directing style in The Great Buddha+ and narrated his own film once again. Along with Huang s fly-on-the-wall narration, the four protagonists express their views on the meaning of life through candid conversations. The director said, when directing Classmates Minus, I thought about the people and phenomena that I ve observed in Taiwan over the years. The characters are ordinary people. There is nothing out of the ordinary about their conversations. I make films not to put words into people s mouths, but to portray the troubles faced by middle-aged people.
Executive producers Yeh Ju-feng and Mong-Hong Chung also said, This film is the epitome of what people in all corners of the world may experience in their day-to-day lives. We aim to explore social and economic problems and even the issue of midlife crises through the perspective of Taiwan.
Nomadland (Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay).
Gold House is a nonprofit collective of Asian founders, creative voices and leaders hoping to unify the world’s largest populace–Asians and Pacific Islanders–to enable more authentic multicultural representation.
Who are the Gold List voters and and how many are there? They are more secretive than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who number about 90. According to Larisa Jiao, communications fellow at Gold House, the Gold List team has “decided to keep that number internal now.”
The inaugural Gold List has ten categories and is voted on by the Gold Open Advisory Council, Gold House Members (the premier nonprofit collective of leading API creatives, executives, and founders), CAPE Board Members and Advisors (the premier API-entertainment nonprofit), and other entertainment leaders.
The Gold List Aims To Make Sure Asian Actors And Filmmakers Strike Oscar Gold
Asians have been historically underrepresented at the Oscars and in other major entertainment awards.
Last February, in one of the final big cultural moments of the Before Times, “Parasite” won the Oscar for Best Picture, becoming the first non-English-language movie to win the top prize. The film’s director, Bong Joon-ho, also took home Oscars for Best Director, Best International Film (the first South Korean movie to win in the category) and Best Original Screenplay (with his co-writer, Han Jin-won). It was a seismic moment for Korean and Asian representation.
Minari and Sound of Metal were chosen as this initiative s best picture picks.
Gold House the nonprofit organization that seeks to promote Asian-led and multicultural films is launching a new initiative focused on awards season.
The Gold List is a collaboration between CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) and Gold Open, Gold House s movement to bring Asian-led movies box office success. The list is chosen by the Gold Open advisory council, Gold House members, CAPE board members and advisors, and other entertainment leaders. They include Walt Disney president of marketing Asad Ayaz, Black List founder Franklin Leonard and Academy officer and board governor Janet Yang.