• THE FESTIVAL
  • AWARDS
  • JURY
  • FESTIVAL DIRECTORS
  • HOSTS & PARTNERS
  • AWARD WINNERS & FILM

The Festival

 

The Tainan 39 Hour Short Film Contestival’s aim is to create a platform for intercultural communication and international exchange. It has ties with filmmaking institutions, schools and festivals in Germany furthering the cinematic exchange between Germany and Taiwan.

 

Tainan, the oldest city and former capital of Taiwan, plays an important role in the history of Taiwanese arts and culture. Developing into a modern city, Tainan has kept its traditional culture, arts, crafts, and architecture. Its unique cultural and visual assets offer a rich potential backdrop for film productions. In promotion of these the Culture Bureau of Tainan City Government hosts the Tainan 39 Hour Short Film Contestival. The festival’s purpose is to encourage filmmakers to explore and let themselves get inspired by Tainan, to provide them with a platform to interact with other filmmakers, to increase the support for filmmaking in Tainan, and to promote Tainan as a creative center of art, film, and tourism.

 

Welcome enthusiastic and passionate filmmakers to participate in the Tainan 39 Hour Short Film Contestival and to compete for the Golden Tainan Award. The winning film will receive a cash award and will get invited to one of the largest short film festivals in the world, the International Short Film Festival Berlin.

 

The fastest way to Berlin is via Tainan!

Come to Tainan and become an international filmmaker!

Awards

 

Golden Tainan Award

:

Screening at the 29th Interfilm -

Berlin International Short Film Festival

+ One Commendation and Cash Award of TWD 30,000

 

Best Cinematography

 

:

One Commendation and Cash Award of TWD 20,000

Best Script

:

One Commendation and Cash Award of TWD 20,000

 

Best Editing

 

:

One Commendation and Cash Award of TWD 20,000

Best Sound Design

 

:

One Commendation and Cash Award of TWD 20,000

Special Jury Prize

:

One Commendation and Cash Award of TWD 5,000

 

Audience Choice Award

 

:

One Commendation and Cash Award of TWD 5,000

 

 

 

 

*All awards and bonuses need to pay a 15% income tax in accordance with the law.

Jury

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Heinz Hermanns

Festival Director & CEO Berlin International Short Film Festival & Distribution interfilm Inc.

 

In 1981 he founded the art house cinema Eiszeit in Berlin, which he directed during 9 years. From its beginning in 1982, he directs the international short film festival Berlin - Interfilm. He is the director and co-founder since 2001 of the super short film festival "Going Underground" held in the trains of the Berlin Subway. He is also co-founder of the Zebra poetry film award that since 2002 presents short films that interpret poems twice a year.


He gives seminars on short film language all over the world.

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judge 1 Liao Pen-jung

Cinematographer

 

Professor at the Department of Motion Pictures and Video, Kun-Shan University.

 

Awards:

Golden Horse for Best Cinematography, Golden Horse for Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year, Asian Film Awards for Best Cinematography. Best Cinematography of the 12th Taipei Film Festival.

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Chen Sheng-chang

Editor

 

Chair Professor at the Department of Computer Aided Media Design, Chang Jung Christian University

 

Awards:

Best Editing of the 40th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.
Jury member for the 41st and 45th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.

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Wang Tong

Director, Art Director and Costume Designer

 

Chair Professor at the School of Film and New Media,
Taipei National University of the Arts

 

Awards:

Best Costume Design Award in Golden Horse Awards for his collaboration with King Hu in Hu's All the King's Men. He has won six Golden Horse Awards, including Best Director for Hill of No Return (1992). This film was also awarded Best Film in Shanghai International Film Festival.

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judge 1 Lee You-Yingwu-Anchun

Professional Film Critic

 

In 1985, he's written two books on Taiwan New Cinema - "Six Directors from Hong Kong and Taiwan" and "Movies, Filmmakers & Film Publications";
He was responsible for organizing the section of "Taiwanese Film Reviews for the Golden Horse Film Festival " in 1989;
His other publications include "Cannes Film Festival in Venice", "Queer Movie" etc.
He has made two short films, "Life is Like a Movie - about Audrey Hepburn" and "Quail Singing on A Parrot's Head";
He starred in theater plays and movies by Tsai Ming-liang, Chen Jun-Zhi, Huang Ming-Zheng, Wu Mi-Se, Fu Tian-Yu and Hung Hung;

 

Awards:

He received an award at the 2011 Taipei Film Festival for Outstanding Achievements.

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Festival Directors

judge 1 Till Dietsche 狄龍

 

  • Stills and Motion Picture Maker
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor
    Department of Computer Aided Media Design
    Chang Jung Christian University Tainan
  • Ph.D. in Media Science and Chinese Studies
    National University of Kiel
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    When I first came to Tainan 16 years ago, within the first week, I fell in love twice: once with a woman and once with a city – both love affairs are still going on today. While I consider the former private, I’d like to share the latter with the world: Tainan Short Film City!

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    TinLing Tai 戴叮玲

     

  • Director of Sevenclouds Media Ltd.
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    Born in Malaysia and graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature at National Cheng Kung University, the day that I will have spent more time in my second home Tainan, than in my hometown Malacca is approaching soon. I like movies, I love Tainan, 39 is my lucky number.

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    AWARD WINNERS & FILM 2012

     

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    Tainan 39 Hour Short Film Contestival Director Till Dietsche, Taiwanese Ambassador to Berlin Dr. Wu-lien Wei,
    Short Film Director Chien-Wen Lin and Editor/ Ian Chen of last year's winning film "Day by Day", at the Taiwanese Embassy Berlin
    in celebration of the film's screening at the 28th International Short Film Festival Berlin 2012

     

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    Best Short

    :

    DAY BY DAY    by    Things I Lost

    Best Cinematography

    :

    DON'T MOVE    by    Clear Skies

    Best Script

    :

    CHORD    by    Dynamic

    Audience Choice Award

    :

    IN YOUR SHOT I WANNA SAY    by    N&M Studio

    Honorary Mention

    :

    HOB & VOLAND    by    Cross-check

    LOST KEYS    by    Drafects UNI

    IN YOUR SHOT I WANNA SAY    by    N&M Studio

     

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    No. Team Film
    1 Action ! Tainan

    BLACK CONTRACT

    2 Caitleb

    INTOXICATED

    3 Crosscheck

    HOB & VOLAND

    4 Spark Jam

    TEXT TAINAN

    5 The Diggers

    A FOOL'S PARADISE

    6 Ministrels on Film

    THE GHOST WIFE

    7 Bear Machi

    I LOVE YOU

    8 CAMD

    I WANT IT

    9 Captor

    CAPTOR

    10 Completely Transformed

    A FOND MOMENT

    11 Dismiss

    COMING OF AGE

    12 Drafects UNI

    LOST KEYS

    13 Dynamic

    CHORD

    14 Freud

    ONE DAY

    15 Green Moxie

     

    16 Legna

    VERY ME

    17 N&M Studio

    IN YOUR SHOT I WANNA SAY

    18 Things I Lost

    DAY BY DAY

    19 Turning Point

    THE SUMMER GATE

    20 TXN Digital Media Studio

     

    21 Xiaozi Gang

     

    22 Quick Hands

    THE PRESENT

    23 Moonface Film Studio

    I AM LOST

    24 Li Bai Creative Image Team

    TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW

    25 Color Blocks

    SOMEWHERE IN TIME

    26 Eastern Republic

    THE STONE

    27 Story River

    AAA

    28 TNNUA Animation Department

    FATHER DAUGHTER RESUMEE

    29 I'm Telling You Team

    I'M TELLING YOU

    30 Mad Laughter Silver Home

    SILVER  AND SHEEP

    31 Skylight

    LOST

    32 Late Night Flight

    I HAVE MET SOME COWS

    33 Clear Skies

    DON'T MOVE

    34 J&W Creative Video Production Team

    VIEWFINDER

    35 Jihan Image

    WELCOME IN TAINAN

    36 Mom's Blessing

    TAINAN UNIVERSE

    37 Austin Video Production

    CROSSROADS

    38 Microcosmos

    NOT GOING HOME FOR A WHILE

    39 Ji Zhang

    CLAP

     

     

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    AWARD WINNERS & FILM 2013

     

     

     

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    Golden Tainan Award

    :

    Rekok Studio - SORROW SPOT

    Best Cinematography

    :

    Ultra - TON UP THE IMAGE

    Best Script

    :

    N&M Studio - HE'S WITH ME

    Best Editing

    :

    Working Class Zombies - BEARING SANCTUARY

    Best Sound Design

    :

    Working Class Zombies - BEARING SANCTUARY

    Special Jury Prize

    :

    Four Hours - NIGHTMARE

    Audience Choice Award

    :

    The Inconceivable - 39 MONTHS

     

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    No. Team Film
    1 肆映像影像製作團隊

    AFTERLIFE

    2 Go 123

    IN TOUCH WITH GOD

    3 Working Class Zombies

    BEARING SANCTUARY

    4 Open Sun-Roof

    CHAOS

    5 CAPTOR

    BEYOND THE VIEW

    6 H.O家族

    家鄉

    7 The Inconceivable

    39 MONTHS

    8 Hot Blooded Peanuts

    ECHO

    9 綠樹.愛的故事

     

    10 Dream Monarch

    SUMMER'S SPIRIT

    11 RiLL Aduzai

    VIOLET'S VERSE

    12 N&M Studio

    HE'S WITH ME

    13 P.E.

    DESIRE

    14 Roast Potatoes

    THE PARCEL

    15 Alley Hunter

    MR. PERFECT 

    16 Graffiti

    JAN LIAN

    17 熊熊

    阿盛

    18 Ultra

    TON UP THE IMAGE

    19 100% Films

    ROATATION

    20 CODENAME: ZOMBIES

    THE BUTTON MAN

    21 Jihe Imaging

    TAPIOCA MILK TEA KILLER

    22 Le Ho Studio

    THE 39th IMAGE I-CHING

    23 衝一波影像創作團隊

    THE TRAIN STATION

    24 連祥

    斗笠

    25 Wireless Video Production

    FOOTSTEPS

    26 阿姆斯壯影像製作團隊

    THE WARDROBE & THREESOME

    27 Rekok Studio

    SORROW SPOT

    28 PUZZLE

    BACK TO THE FIRST FILM

    29 發現小確幸

    HUNGRY CUSTOMER

    30 DOT Studio

    藝 · 憶

    31 Four Hours

    NIGHTMARE

    32 牡羊座創藝影像

    成說偕老

    33 Coffee Addicts

    CROSS

    34 Balloons

    SEEK

    35 Team Brown

    ADRIFT

    36 圓環映畫

    昨日之屋,明日之窗

    37 後社

    SARSFIELD

    38 Ten Strong Ones

    COLOR FILM

    39 超班少年

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