"Audrey" Screens at Women Make Waves Film Festival in Taiwan

Janson Media"s retrospective special, Audrey Hepburn Remembered, was screened at the 13th annual Women Make Waves Film Festival in Taipei, Taiwan, this past October. The festival has been devoting itself to exploring different aspects of women's lives, to improving women's social rights, and to celebrating the achievements of outstanding female talents through the art of cinema. The theme of the 2006 Festival was &'Women and the Arts.&' Women Make Waves Film Festival (WMWFF) began in 1993, when Taiwan was going through a decade of democratization and rapid change. In the organization's own words, 'After the lifting of Marshal Law in 1987, social forces that had long been suppressed began to break out, including feminist discourse and actions. The first half of the nineties can be defined as the years when Taiwanese people from all walks of life released a tremendous amount of energy into sensitive social issues such as environmental protection, labor rights, educational reform, media reform, parliamentary reform and gender equality. This was the age of political awakening and people power. It is therefore no surprise that Women Make Waves came into being with the help of female filmmakers and Women"s Awakening -- a pioneer women"s movement organization. The 'waves' these women hoped to make, along with other "waves" dashing to the shores of many social movement battlegrounds, have helped shape the greatly diverse and highly democratized society of Taiwan today.' Audrey Hepburn Remembered was written and produced by Gene Feldman and Suzette Winter of Wombat Productions. The film is hosted by actor Sir Roger Moore, and includes interviews with directors Billy Wilder, Blake Edwards and Stanley Donen, composer Henry Mancini, actors Gregory Peck, Mel Ferrer, and George Peppard, fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy and others.