The Most Professional Narrative Filmmaking Hub in Southern Taiwan
With a pragmatic spirit of “making films” rather than “talking about films,” we place hands-on practice at the core of teaching. Our department is positioned as the most professional training base for narrative filmmaking among comprehensive universities in southern Taiwan. Our curriculum is designed to offer a four-year learning pathway that starts with fundamentals and progressively deepens into professional practice. The curriculum features a modular teaching approach that requires students to produce a short film each semester to ensure continual growth in real-world skills. In the progression of short film creation, students begin in the first year with Principles of Film and TV Production, where they lay the foundation by making short films. In the second year’s Film Production course, projects extend to 5–12 minutes and students take part in ongoing large-scale productions to build collaboration experience (for example, class-wide productions such as “弒愛,” “思線,” “被困,” “艾瑞亞,” and “演算愛”). By the third year, students are encouraged to take on independent short films of around 25 minutes. These rich, diverse stories are publicly screened and reviewed each semester at the “Golden Seed Film Festival.” Beyond traditional narrative films, we actively integrate new media technologies. For instance, in the VR Production course, students have completed multiple experimental immersive works—such as “酒後佳麗,” “黑牆,” “祈禱者,” and “衣櫃裡的吉訶德”—expanding the narrative boundaries of diverse stories.
