Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above (2013)
看見台灣
Documenting Taiwan from an aerial perspective offering a glimpse of Taiwan's natural beauty as well as the effect of human activities and urbanization on our environment.
- Date of release
- 2013-11-01
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (23)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Chi Po-Lin
Casting
- Wu Nien-jen — Narrator
- Xiang Hong — Self
- Cing-Soong Lai — Self
- Nolay Piho — (singing voice)
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Taiwan
Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above is a 2013 documentary film which documents Taiwan completely in aerial photography to underscore the need for environmental reforms. It is directed by aerial photographer Chi Po-lin and produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien, with narration by Wu Nien-jen. The music is composed by Ricky Ho, with three songs written and performed by Nolay Piho. The film opened on November 1, 2013 at 44 theaters in Taiwan, with Chinese and English subtitles. The film broke the Taiwan box office records for the largest opening weekend and the highest total gross of a locally produced documentary.
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