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Taiwanese Romantic Drama ‘Blind Love’ Wins Top Prize at Joburg Film Festival
Julian Chou's sophomore feature, about a high-school boy who falls in love with his mother's ex-girlfriend, won the Joburg Film Festival.
Taiwanese director Julian Chou’s “Blind Love,” a drama about a sensitive teenager who discovers the secret affair between his mother and a mysterious woman, won the top prize at the 7th Joburg Film Festival on Saturday. During his acceptance speech, the 78-year-old industry icon recalled stepping into the offices of public broadcaster SABC in 1993, when the head of the station’s TV division asked him to write a telenovela for the channel as the country transitioned into a new era of democratic rule. The series would run for more than two decades on SABC before relaunching as “Generations: The Legacy” in 2014, making it the longest-running soap opera on South African television.
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