Taiwanese director Li Xing founded the “Cross-Strait Film Exhibition” before his death due to heart and lung failure

China News Agency, Taipei, August 20. According to Taiwan media reports on the 20th, such as China Central News Agency and China Times News, the well-known director Li Xing, known as the “Father of Taiwanese Films,” died in Taipei from heart and lung failure at 9:55 pm on the 19th. , At the age of 91.

Director Li Xing is the pioneer of Taiwan’s “healthy realism” film and a witness to Taiwan’s film history in the past half century. His representative works include “A Boat in the Ocean”, “A Native Villager”, “Small Town Story”, etc. He has won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director three times, and was awarded the Golden Horse Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the first chairman of the Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee. .

For many years, Li Xing has been committed to the distribution of Hokkien films in the southern Hokkien region of mainland China with the original sound. In 2014, with the official support of Fujian, the “Hokkien Film Week” was held in Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, setting a precedent for Taiwanese original films to enter the mainland market.

In 2009, Director Li Xing founded the Cross-Strait Film Exhibition. In an interview with a reporter from China News Agency at the 10th Film Festival, he said that as long as he lives a day, he will continue to fight for the film industry on both sides of the strait. During the interview, the Cross-Strait Film Exchange Committee stated that a simple mourning hall will be set up for relatives and friends to pay tribute. (Finish)