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This year, the Lightbox section of Toronto International Film Festival is hosting the world premiere of the sophomore feature film directed by Xi Huang, “Daughter’s Daughter”. The director’s debut “Missing Johnny” (2017) had a healthy and fruitful festival tour, but mainly on the Asian continent and at festivals specialized in Asian cinema. The new effort is more likely to travel further and longer, while the name of the legendary Taiwanese New Wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien as the executive producer on ending credits suggests that Xi might be the new, internationally recognized voice of the Taiwanese cinema.

Daughter’s Daughter is screening at Toronto International Film Festival

The protagonist of the film is Jin Ai-xia (the one and only Sylvia Chang), a woman who spent a part of her life in New York and the other part in Taipei. From the two “episodes”, she has two daughters, Emma (Karena Lam) who lives...

Taiwan-based Andrews Film has picked up international sales rights to drama film “Daughter’s Daughter” ahead of its premiere in the Platform section of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Directed by Huang Xi (“Missing Johnny”), the film has an impeccable pedigree flowing from its executive producers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Sylvia Chang. Taiwan industry icon, Chang also stars in the picture, alongside Karena Lam and Eugenie Liu (“Old Fox”).

The film chronicles the journey and the choices made by a 60-year-old woman whose daughter dies in an accident. The older woman discovers that she is responsible for her dead daughter’s IVF embryo and decides to confront the other daughter she had as a teenager. While past regrets and future responsibilities collide, the film also probes the complexities of reproduction among the LGBT community.

The film is produced by Sun Lok Productions and received project investment from Taicca on behalf of National Development Fund.

Hou Hsiao-hsien is executive producing the seven-part anthology, directed by Huang Xi and starring Lee Kang-sheng.

WarnerMedia and Taiwan’s Catchplay are co-producing an original drama series Twisted Strings, which is executive produced by leading Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien.

Currently in post-production, the seven-part anthology series is produced by Catchplay’s newly established production arm, Screenworks Asia, in partnerships with Taiwan’s Bossdom and Singapore’s MediaCorp.

The series is written and directed by Golden Horse-nominated director, Huang Xi, who has worked with Hou on films including The Assassin (2015). Huang’s debut film Missing Johnny was awarded Best Screenplay at the 2017 Taipei Film Awards.