Sun, 16 Dec
|The Arts House
Tea Land (27min)
(dir. Tseng Ying-Ting, 2018, Taiwan, Rating to be advised)
Time & Location
16 Dec 2018, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Ln, Singapore 179429
About the Event
In Taiwan, five run-away migrant workers from Thailand and Vietnam work illegally on a high-mountain tea farm. Facing the same struggles, they consider themselves family. Until one of them is found dead, and his savings lost.
Director Bio: Tseng Ying-ting holds a graduate degree in filmmaking from the National Taiwan University of Arts and was a member of the directing class of the 4th Golden Horse Film Academy. He received the Excellent Screenplay Award twice, as well as the Golden Harvest Awards for Outstanding Short Films. For The Cat in the Closet, Tseng won the Best Photography, Best Editing, and Best Sound Awards from the 51st Golden Bell Awards. For The Last Verse, the director was selected for “New Currents” of the Busan International Film Festival.