Aug. 15, 2025 - Epoch Times
02:52
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| We tried a few festivals, but we get a response that they are a little concerned about the topic because some of the very big festivals, usually they are very connected to China. | |
| A lot of filmmakers, Chinese filmmakers, came every year. | |
| So they're concerned that because this happened to them before, if they accept our film, the Chinese government will ask the rest of the Chinese filmmakers to leave the festival. | |
| So they will suffer a loss. | |
| So yeah, so we experienced this in Taiwan Film Festival before the Golden Horse. | |
| They said the same thing. | |
| If we accept you, that means we lose all other Chinese film. | |
| Because the government will just force them to withdraw. | |
| You know, it's very interesting. | |
| It reminds me, there's a really powerful book called The Collaboration. | |
| It was written about how Hollywood worked with the Nazi regime in the 1930s to make sure, I believe in the middle of the 1930s, there was not a single film made critical of Nazi Germany, even though these extreme anti-Semitic policies were already kind of being put in place. | |
| Not just anti-Semitic, there were all sorts of red flags. | |
| But Hollywood basically didn't notice, even though there were filmmakers who wanted to make those films. | |
| We also know that. | |
| There's an eerie parallel here. | |
| That's just happens for culture market sometimes. | |
| Even including the Holocaust, in the beginning, when the Nazi regime is still there, before they were defeated, it's like no one believed it. | |
| Same thing, it reminds me about the organ harvesting too. | |
| I don't know if you, you're probably familiar with the topic. | |
| When we first heard about it, it was just like, that was 2003, 2004, very early. | |
| But yeah, not at this gradually, I mean, the culture products are picking that up. | |
| I hope that will make a difference. | |
| Because it is important, because this is what opened people's mind. | |
| So they want to do something about it, right? | |
| Some news is too shocking. | |
| It's just maybe the general public will react to it very slowly. | |
| That's why, I mean, like, it's actually a great responsibility for all the filmmakers and writers to focus on issues like this. | |
| Because it really can shape opinion for the public, right? |
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