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Go Grandriders

17th(2012) Wide Angle

Aging · Adventure · Biography  

  • CountryTaiwan
  • Production Year2012
  • Running Time90min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
A group of octogenarians ride scooters across Taiwan despite their families’ worries and fears on a grand adventure that proves dreams and passion don’t fade away with the onset of old age. Seventeen Grandriders get licenses and practice hard in preparation for the big trip. They are not unusually healthy elders: some of them fight cancer, a lot of them suffer high blood pressure or heart disease, it’s a given that all of them have joint pains. However their enthusiasm measures no less than men and women a half, or a quarter, their age carrying dreams on their scooters. The Grandriders’ trip isn’t just about the process of overcoming old age. The journey compels each of the bikers to look back at their past. While being nostalgic about their passionate youth, they realize their lingering hatreds and disgraces from the island’s history of war have faded over time. They wash off their past in Taiwan’s turbulent development, riding away on their scooters. (CHO Young-jung)
Director
Director
Tien-hao HUA
Born in 1981 in Taipei, Hua Tian-hao has engaged in the production of documentaries, commercials and promotion videos since 2002. He harbors the creative philosophy that film is but a media by which to transmit ideas. His works include <Island Etude> (2006, Still Photographer), <Chen Yin-Hui> (2009), <Greeting the Future> (2011).
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Credit
  • Director Tien-hao HUA 후아티엔하오
  • Producer WANG Nai-hung, HUA Tien-hau, CHANG CHao-wei, CHEN Ruby
  • Production Company Merry-Go-Round Studio
    Taiwan 1F., No.7, Aly. 20, Ln. 300, Sec. 4, Ren’ai Rd., Da’an Dist., Taipei City 106
    xenia@mgrstudio.net

  • World Sales CNEX Foundation Limited
    Taiwan 11F., No. 63, Sec. 1, Hangzhou S. Road, Taipei City 10054, Taiwan
    erica.cclin@cnex.org.tw