Fu Yue (director)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Fu.

Fu Yue (Chinese: 傅榆; pinyin: Fù Yú; Wade–Giles: Fu Yü; born 20 September 1982) is a Taiwanese film director.

Early life and education

Fu Yue was born to a Malaysian Chinese father and an Indonesian Chinese mother.^[1] She enrolled at National Chengchi University within the Department of Radio and Television.^[2][3] In 2008, Fu earned a master's degree from the Graduate Institute of Sound and Image Studies of the Tainan National University of the Arts.^[2][3] She completed the film Mirror!, in which her parents discussed politics in Taiwan with another couple supportive of the Democratic Progressive Party, to finish her degree.^[4]

Career

In 2012, Fu produced the political documentary, Dialogue Between Blue & Green.^[4] In 2015, Fu contributed the segment A Commander Made By Accident, which covered activist Chen Wei-ting [zh], to the anthology film Sunflower Occupation.^[5][6]

Fu directed the documentary film Our Youth in Taiwan, about the events of the Sunflower Student Movement.^[7] The film won the Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary at the 55th Golden Horse Awards.^[8][9] During Fu's acceptance speech, she said "I really hope that one day, our country can be treated as a truly independent entity ... This is my greatest wish as a Taiwanese."^[10] Following this reference to the political status of Taiwan, Chinese broadcasts of the award ceremony were censored,^[11][12] and Fu's work was removed from listed award winners on several Chinese film databases.^[13] Fu defended her comments in a subsequent post to Facebook: "You can’t avoid the topic by simply saying, ‘Let politics be politics; let art be art’... As a director, I had to speak up for my work... I didn't make my remarks 'on an impulse,' or 'instigated by the DPP government' as suggested by some Chinese netizens. I said what I had always wanted to say about the film. I am willing to accept whatever consequence brought to my career in the future."^[14][15][16]