Documentary_From border to border

Published: 07 March 2016
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Beyond Border
Documentary Film Series
Venue: Audiovisual Theater, NCCU Art & Culture Center

From border to border 

  • Date & Time: 05/05/2016 19:00-21:30
  • CHUNG She-fong｜2013│108 min│Taiwan│
  • HDCAM │COLOR │G│Chinese & English subtitles 
  • The director is invited for post-show talk.

Taking place in Calcutta’s Chinatown, From Border to Border recalls the complicated relationship that continues to divide India’s ethnic Chinese and mainstream Indian communities.

Supposedly marked by social exclusion and self-segregation, the ethnic Chinese community has remained a mystery despite generations of living in India.

Through a collection of oral narratives, Chung Shefong and her film crew carefully uncover the intriguing yet troubled history of India’s Chinese community.

Starting from the Chinese community’s arrival in India in the 1800s, to the effects of the 1962 Sino-Indian border conflict, to their recent mass emigration, From Border to Border puts voices to faces as interviewees retell their histories and describe their experiences living with generational discrimination and alienation, cultural preservation and familial expectations.

 

CHUNG She-fong││Director
CHUNG Shefong founded Trees Music and Art, a folk and root music label, in 1993. Trees Music and Art collaborates with artists with similar mind and vision in producing quality music, and has developed to be one of the few indie music labels celebrating independent music yet growing internationally.

In 2001, Chung started Migration Music Festival, an annual music festival organized around the theme of "migration", with the aim to provide a platform for integrating music and cultural issues, and sound experiments.

The visit in India in 2011 has brought her to a journey on documentary filmmaking. She has completed in 2013 her first documentary film From Border to Border on the migration istory of the Indian Chinese living in Kolkata. The film has been nominated and selected in a number of international film festivals, including Taipei Film Festival, Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, Hamburg Film Festival, etc. It is also the winner of 2014 Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taiwan.

Chung currently teaches at the College of Communication of the National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan.