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Invisible Nation
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[Plays 1/25 at 4:30 p.m. at the LUMIX Theater in Park City during the 30th Slamdance Film Festival that runs Jan. 19-25; for more information, log on to https://slamdance.com.] Vanessa Hope's award-winning, educational, gripping, insightful, eye-opening, timely, thought-provoking, 85-minute geopolitical documentary, which is highlighted by striking cinematography, that focuses on the strong-willed, forward-thinking, tenacious, first-female, Cornell University and London School of Economics-educated Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen who was elected in 2015 and walks a delicate, tension-filled, precarious tightrope to have her Democratic country remain independent and autonomous versus the competing reunification philosophy espoused by the previous president and consists of archival photographs and film footage and candid interview snippets with former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, National Human Rights Commission chair Chu Chen, Culture Minister Cheng Li-Chun, Foreign Affairs Ministers Wang Yi and Joseph Wu, historian James Lin, Human Rights and Democracy ambassador Maysing Yang, Law Institute Academia Sinica Yu-jie Chen and Wen Liu, Taipei city councilor Wu Pei-yi, former President Bill Clinton, Forward Alliance founder Enoch Wu, Columbia political science professor Andrew J. Nathan, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Hsiao Bi-Khim, Taiwan DPP Mission director Michael Fonte, PRC Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Li Zhaoxing, Chthonic lead singer and independent legislator Freddy Lim, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator Jason Hsu, former House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi, National Taiwan University visiting professor Michelle Kuo, authors Stein Ringen and Shawna Yang Ryan, New York Times journalist Chris Horton, and Digital Affairs Minister Audrey Tang.

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2024
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